<p>Just took the PSAT as a Sophomore. Math was easy and Writing was alright but I definately got slaughtered on the CR. I left 11 blank and probably got a few more wrong. Can anyone suggest a good prep book or prep class that could help out with the Writing and definately the CR parts of the PSAT/SAT. Thanks.</p>
<p>prep classes SUCK. PR probably decreased my orig soph PSAT...I used "PSAT Cram" to get a 218, I thought it really helped me. Also, if you take a lot of regular SATs, with the blue book, you'll do a lot better on the math and writing.</p>
<p>PR is good for the PSAT. The CB Blue Book is best for the SAT.</p>
<p>Did anyone else have trouble on the last two math questions of the first math section? I omitted them.</p>
<p>The grid-in math section was easy. CR, for the most part, was easy. The second CR section was tough though. And writing was super easy. I don't think I missed any.</p>
<p>Dont read into the answers too much thats how they trick you and get you torn between 2 answers. Know the answer before you look at the choices. Also read the passages carefully...better to take your time on the passage and get the WHOLE idea. Once you know the author's tone or stance on an issue you can basically know where the passage is heading (ex. all of the African American passages talk about similar themes) so then you just choose the answer choices that go along with the theme but NEVER contradict it. Prep classes are useless just take MANY practice tests and use that prep class money to sign up for a college board SAT every month that way you get good practice and if you feel confortale submit it... otehrwise cancel either way its good practice.</p>
<p>last question on first section was tough and i believe it was the second or third from last on the second section were hard on the math...everything else pretty easy....so will PR give me like some good vocabulary and like prefix and suffix stuff...i dont know what else could help bring up my score.</p>
<p>Barron's Critical Reading Workbook (for the SAT, but you can use it to study for the PSAT)</p>
<p>It has a big vocab list and prefix/suffix/root word stuff.</p>
<p>I took the PSAT today as a sophomore but I doubt I will score very high. I got a 155 on a practice test and I doubt I even did that good today. I ran way out of time on the writing section, I guessed on like 15 questions because I would've had like 3 minutes to answer 15 questions. Other than that there were only a few math questions that were hard, and I didn't even bother reading the passages because I feared I'd run out of time. I can tell already that I'll probably be a better ACT scorer than SAT, but I'm going to make sure I study my vocabulary and read more before taking the SAT and that should help my score quite a bit.</p>
<p>thanks apotheosis....yea dr10 i think my act will be 100x better than sat</p>