<p>hello, i'm a new member so don't know where to post this question.</p>
<p>I took Jan SAT. It was my first SAT and scored like this.( I'm an international and my language in school isn't English)</p>
<p>M: 780
W: 780
CR: 670</p>
<p>I know the CR score is very low . but on test day I faced time constraints and therefore couldn't finished questions in time. I'm planning to take it in October. So I'll get 4 months from June to get prepared for CR. the problem is I can't decide what to do. is my math and writing score good enough for top 50 engineering schools? most people are saying I'll need a 800 in math. don't know why as I've 800 in math level 2 and physics. should I consider studying for math and writing or should I just concentrate on CR? bit confused. will 4 month be enough to get my CR score up to 740-760 range or I should forget about this? please help.</p>
<p>For someone who doesn’t know English well, that’s a great CR score (even native english speakers score around 170 less than you).</p>
<p>Concentrate on Math and Writing- if you can get perfect scores on those, it’ll take attention of the 600-something CR score.</p>
<p>You don’t need an 800 for top 50 engineering schools. You don’t need an 800 for any engineering school. Same goes for writing. Even schools like MIT admit hundreds of people with lower scores in those sections. </p>
<p>Only focus on CR. Some people just get it and others don’t do as well. Some common strategies are: look at the questions that ask about most nearly meaning and other things that are easy with little context, underline those parts of the passage, and read the passage, filling out questions as you go. Then you answer the overall questions last. This could improve your score a good 60 points. If you want to get a score in the high 700s then you need to be a faster, more cognizant reader. I usually do the best on the reading sections out of all of them, even though I consider myself better at math. I read the passage closely, understanding the purpose and the tone, then answer the questions. Usually I look back at the lines being referenced, spend a bit of time thinking, then move on. If you finish early DO NOT CLOSE YOUR BOOK AND SIT THERE. I see this all the time and it frankly confounds me. Go back to any question that was difficult and mull it over, even if that means spending 5 minutes on one question. If you know you got the others right, this is the only one that needs your attention. Even when I finish early and feel confident about almost everything, I work all the way until pencils-down.</p>
<p>Maybe your problem is with vocabulary. In this case, when you see word you don’t know, think of something similar to the word in either English or a common root language, like Latin. For example, I know what circumambulation means because circum means circle, ambul means walk, and tion means the word is a noun. For words like ephemeral, I knew it meant temporary because I knew temporary in spanish was efemero (accent somewhere in there); this was really a word on either the SAT or PSAT that I wouldn’t have known otherwise. This takes some practice but it can be really easy if you take a romance language.</p>
<p>If you practice using these skills or some other strategies you can definitely increase your score in a few months. Just practice as much as you think you need over an extended time period. Sorry if I wrote a wall of text, and I hope it helped!</p>
<p>That said, 670 is definitely good for a non-native speaker.</p>
<p>^can you go to SAT forum? I’ve posted my plans there. Sorry I didn’t know that was the forum to post this type of thread. Will that plan work?</p>