<p>heresyxgpaholic - but how does one improve? Give us tips!</p>
<p>Not quite as impressive, but for me:
640 March
690 June</p>
<p>I think it helped that I read something like 7 books for school between those two dates. I studied some vocab, but the reading really helped.</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that CR score is very well correlated to age- the more you read and the more time you have to read things, the better you do.</p>
<p>right now im reading a book, buying a cr book for the sat, and reading the 1000 sparknotes word haha</p>
<p>butternut- haha..yeah, i'm busy w/ ECs too now so not 20 books anymore!</p>
<p>JetH- yeah...as I said in my little long rant- it's mostly LUCK.</p>
<p>But here are some tips:
1.)Make sure that you are actually fully alert and awake the day of the SAT.
2.) Answer SC questions are quickly and efficiently as possible so you have more time for the Passage Questions and checking answers.
3.) ALWAYS read your answer in the sentence for SCs and ALWAYS mentally read the question and answer together for passages. For some reason this helps me tell if I am definitly answering the question the cb is asking.
4.) Skim passage based questions before reading the passage- this directs you to what you should pay attention to.
5.) What I do is circle what I think are relevant details and write down brief main ideas in the margins of each paragraph.
6.) For the comparative passages where they ask you to compare the authors opinions or what would author 1 think of author 2's statement that "blah blah blah" look for specific examples and usually there is an answer choice that these examples back up. </p>
<p>I think that's all I can think of right now...</p>
<p>heresyxgpaholic, i dont know man but i really didn't read books in order to score a 740. Studying vocab for the SAT does not REQUIRE the understanding of each word specifically to their complete context in a sentence. It is very easy to get the general understanding of what answer is needed in the blank and then simply use the vocabulary you study to formulate the best possible answer, not to mention the answer is usually blatant. As for the practice tests, of course I got sick of it, but there begins to be a similarity presented between each tests' questions and the test begins to become less of a unfamiliar reading passage with random questions which have little purpose and more of something that you've seen before. Following my 630 in March, and for the months prior to the March test, I did a test a week for my tutor in the BB and in released tests, and trust me, it helped substantially. </p>
<p>Reading to understand vocabulary is something which is, IMO, drawn out and annoying, due to the fact that I would rather read for pleasure than read and stop to point out SAT words. Idk maybe i am in fact misguided and my way simply is not a way with which a large majority of people can improve, however I was very happy with my improvement of 110 points. Clearly, there are a number of ways to improve however so we can definitly both be right.</p>
<p>December 610
June 690</p>
<p>Barrons 2400 SAT
Took a practice test every day the week before the SAT
Look at some vocab, but don't over do it because you will just start to confuse all the words that you are trying to memorize</p>
<p>thanks for the tip. do u recommend that
i read all of the passages or just skim for details
because princeton review tells
me to skim for details
while others tell me read the
whole damn thing.
oh yeah, and
im using Wordsmart for vocab, which
is pretty helpful...
any more tips on what to
do with the passages?
thnks</p>
<p>Well, what i found really helpful for passages is circling the lines mentioned in the question as well as the first few sentences before it and after it. If focuses your eyes and makes you less susceptible to outside information. Oh and carefully read the summary that appears at the top of each passage, it can save a lot of head aches. </p>
<p>My steps usually consisted of this:
1. Read introductory paragraph
a. Straightforward enough? Skip to 4
b. What the? down to 2
2. Skim the passage
a. ok i get it Skip to 4
b. !? down to 3
3. Read the passage
a. Get the gist: quick mental soapstone
speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone
4. Read the questions
The q's can basically be broken up in two types. Fetch and Analyze. Fetch are the easiest so try them first. Fetch are the one's that are like "this word is best replaced by <em>. ", "The protagonist in lines x-x thinks that _</em>". etc. Analytical q's ask for the big picture.
5. Do fetch
1.circle the lines pertaining to the questions
2.POE
3.???
4. Profit!!
6. Analyze
These are a bit tricky. First POE, and if you still can't get the answer skip the problem and perhaps you'll find the answer later. If not read the passage carefully again.</p>
<p>March: 640
June: 760</p>
<p>I read a book or two in between, nothing big though. I did do many practice tests though. Also studied lot of vocab.</p>
<p>Honestly, the vocab is hit or miss. There's no way you can memorize every word they could use. In June I got lucky. I skipped one vocab and got one wrong based on the answers on here.</p>
<p>well, I guess the problem with studying vocab is what's the point if you get a perfect score for all the vocab questions? The only problems I get wrong are passage-based reading questions.</p>
<p>so i should read the blurb,</p>
<p>the questions, then work on the easy ones first?</p>
<p>do i really need to waste time reading the whole passage</p>
<p>because i usually run tight on time</p>
<p>1st time: 200
2nd time: 800
it is because the gift God gave me. :))</p>
<p>^screenshots or it didn't happen.</p>