<p>For those who got 2400 on the SAT, how many tests did you take and what books did you use for the test?(I know probably most of you took the 10 tests in the blue book.) Did your scores in the critical reading section gradually increase or did they fluctuate? Did you annotate the section in the beginning and then stop gradually once you became good at it?
On a side note, I am able to get perfect scores on the critical reading section with unlimited amount of time now, but with timing I pretty much still get the same scores as before. Did you experience this phase or is it just me?</p>
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<li><p>Somewhere between 12 and 15 over the course of two and a half weeks where I took one practice test nearly every day.</p></li>
<li><p>Books: I just took released SAT exams; didn’t have the blue book but my prep course happened to have them as well as a few prep books. I don’t know whether we had the Blue Book. I’d also bought the SparkNotes SAT book but I never actually used it.</p></li>
<li><p>My CR scores gradually increased but they did fluctuate too. Think of it like a graph of average global ocean temperatures. There’s a trend of increase but sometimes you decrease in the short term and go back up and whatnot.</p></li>
<li><p>I never really annotated, but what I did was look at the questions first (I’m assuming this is reading). If there’s a question asking about the tone in the third paragraph, I bracketed the paragraph and wrote “tone?” to the side so I could think about it as I read it through. It saved me a lot of rereading time.</p></li>
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<p>I never actually timed myself, so I don’t know about that phase. Do you know why you’re missing stuff only when it’s timed? Are there specific questions?</p>