Please, please help me :'(

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<p>Okay. I'm feeling really stupid right now as four months of studying is not showing ANY positive results.</p>

<p>I've been prepping for SAT II Literature, because... well, I need subject tests and I suck at sciences and history. So I just decided to take Math II, Literature, and Korean. </p>

<p>I took Math II already, and registered for the literature test in June. I started studying in January, thinking that by June, I'll be ready. My first practice test turned out to be 540, which was like "GAHH" but I survived the moment and started studying.</p>

<p>Now it's almost the end of April, and I'm still failing pretty harshly on practice tests.</p>

<p>Because of failing so many times (consecutively. Oh my!), I'm now scared of the glorious activity of reading.</p>

<p>Any tips on improving literature test scores?</p>

<p>Please and thank you :'(</p>

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<p>anyone… please :(</p>

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<p>I am going to give Literature and my advice will be not important.</p>

<p>Just read extra books of literature.I suppose and I hope that they will help u a lot!!</p>

<p>But first of all…Be positive and have confidence…;)</p>

<p>I wish u the best!:D</p>

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<p>First question: Do you know the different lit terms like the abc’s? If you don’t, I’d start by learning all the terms.</p>

<p>Second:What level of English class are you taking? Have you taken a literature analysis focused English class yet?</p>

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<p>Are you taking tests for math 2 from barrons? Barrons makes it ridiculously hard. sometimes a 600=800 for barrons.</p>

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<p>@ dfa4ever
i know all the terms… it’s just that when i time myself and all that, i blank out and it turns out like “GAH I CAN’T DO THIS I SUCK!”</p>

<p>@ RAlec114
I already took it. I didn’t really study for it and got 740 so… yeah. Probably won’t take it again.</p>

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<p>Okay. Can you give me some examples of the problems you miss or ones that take you a long time to answer? Which problems do you usually have a problem/hard time with? Also, how do you do when you don’t time yourself?</p>

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<p>Those questions with I, II, and III are the ones that I miss the most ): my friends tell me that it’s because I’m not confident enough in choosing my answer… but I wouldn’t know.</p>

<p>When I don’t time myself, I get around 680-720. When I do, it’s hard to get over 50% point. ahhhh D:</p>

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<p>Okay with those I, II, III questions, what is your strategy? How do you tackle them? Do you break it apart one by one or some other way?</p>

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<p>I look at it one by one and see if any of them contradicts with one another. Then I refer back to the given passage.</p>

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<p>Okay I see.</p>

<p>The way I tackle those problems is to go one by one and mark them with

  • for true
    ~maybe
  • false</p>

<p>Then I go to the answer choices, any choice that contains a false statement is automatically incorrect. Any choice that doesn’t contain all the correct statements is also incorrect. If at this point there are no “maybes”, then you should be able to get the correct answer.
Then if you have “maybes” you go over your remaining choice answers to figure out which one is correct.
Look at the three statements independent of each other, only refer back to the passage. I think one thing you may be doing is that you are looking at the statements in context with the other statements so that if one seems to be correct, then another seemingly contradictory statement must then be wrong. Instead try to tackle the statements independently, referring only back to the passage to double check facts.</p>