<p>possible to get from 1860 to 2150+?</p>
<p>I'm prepping all summer: McGraw SAT, RocketReview, BlueBook, lots of practice tests (online course thingy)</p>
<p>anything's possible....
cliches aside, with enough prepping and practice it should be a reasonable feat</p>
<p>i'm trying really hard, so i hope it pays off</p>
<p>how are you doing on your practice tests? I'm finding it hard to retain all the logic in the math section, they vary so much in the blue book.</p>
<p>haven't started...i'm learning the concepts, again</p>
<p>Yeah, it's doable. Keep track of your mistakes and work hard to understand and correct them. You can do it.</p>
<p>thanks! I feel like I can do it...I've finished McGraw's Writing section, now off to RocketReview's Writing section</p>
<p>Yeah it's definitely doable, just doing problems long-term will raise your score. Just do a lot of practice math and writing, and read a lot for CR, you should be able to do it.</p>
<p>I think it's CR I need most help with though</p>
<p>I'm trying to read The New Yorker and analyze it.</p>
<p>Yes. Some of my friends improved 300-400 points from a 1700-1800. The lower your starting score is, the easier it is to improve it.</p>
<p>I'd suggest just going through a lot of Reading sections (don't use up all of the Blue Book's...just utilize PR and Kaplan's test books). Reading a high-end magazine now without making it a long-term (half a year+) habit will probably not give you instant results that you desire...but by all means continue if you have started already. The more problems you do, the more you'll discover that most of the CR sections are structured in the exact same pattern. The questions types don't vary much and you'll begin to "see" what are obviously the wrong answers and what is obviously the right answer in certain CR passages the more practice you get.</p>
<p>I'd suggest if CR is your weak spot, try to get all the prep you can by practicing with copious amounts of CR sections from different test books (even if PR and Kaplan's isn't "real"...it's still good practice).</p>
<p>ps. If you need help with vocabulary you can consider getting those SAT-novel type books (Simon's Saga, Mayan Mission)...I thought those were useful; it's definately more interesting than memorizing word lists.</p>
<p>I'm pretty good with vocab. I don't know how the reading section is anymore, but I think I'm probably better (haven't touched my SAT stuff since like March/April). I hope I am. :-)</p>
<p>Do crossword puzzles! Seriously!</p>
<p>glucose
impossible is nothing... sounds like a reasonable goal to me.</p>
<p>i'm not good at crosswords</p>
<p><em>anxious to beat the SAT</em></p>
<p><3 crosswords</p>
<p>You have to practice, but they get way easier as you do them more often. Start with the ones in your newspaper at the beginning of the week because they get progressively harder as the week goes on.</p>
<p>..I think I'm going to marry a guy who'll do crosswords with me. lol</p>
<p>lol, I can't do crosswords at all. Maybe I should start.</p>
<p>I'm trying to raise my score about 200 points over the summer.</p>
<p>me also...200+</p>
<p>I can't do crosswords:-</p>
<p>Crosswords are hard!</p>
<p>They're full of obscure words like ursprache.</p>
<p>oasis, that was the winning word to the National Spelling Bee of this year by the way</p>
<p>your scores are very similar to mine. I got a 1900 1st time taking the test and hope to get a 2100 in the fall. How much time each day did you spend preparing and how long totally did you spend preparing (like 4 weeks, 2 months, 3+ months, 6 months???). I am just trying to get a feel for how much work it will take to raise your score 200-300 points by self studying. It seems like you have studied extensively--- Good luck.</p>