<p>I know I can get my Math to an 800, and my writing is fine. My CR holds me back every time. I bought Barrons 2400 before my March test but procrastinated and never really got the chance to use it. I'm studying it over the summer now (just started today) to retake SAT1 for this fall (October). I'm going for a 2300+. (low 2300s is fine). But for that, I need to raise my CR. Has anyone used Barrons 2400 and seen an increase from the 600s to at least low to mid 700s in their critical reading? Does anyone here have ANY other strategies for boosting this score? It's really annoying me and this October is going to be the last time I take this damned test.</p>
<p>its all a bout practicing, just take a reading comprehension test every night and see what you get. for the questions you get wrong it should be a catagory such as inference, or vocab in context. Just work on the ones you're missing.</p>
<p>Second IamGandhi2k7. At this point, your scores are high enough that statistically it's far more likely for them to drop than to increase, no matter how much prep you do. If you apply someplace that superscores, you have a 2240/1460 - that's pretty darn good.</p>
<p>I'm still waiting for my first set of real SAT results, but the first time I took a CB practice test, without prep, I got 700 CR. It went up to 780 and stayed there after a couple more practice tests. I only used Barron for math and stuck to CB for reading and writing. You just need to familiarize yourself with the question types, so try focusing on CR only to save time? </p>
<p>On the passages, first, read the passages... books try to give you short cuts and the simply don't work; you have enough time to read the passages (multiple times). After you read the passages, just read the questions and answer precisely what they ask. Don't use any outside knowledge, and don't think they're trying to trick you. Also, don't overthink them... the questions are much easier than people make them.</p>
<p>For the sentence completions, memorize roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Then memorize vocab lists if you feel you need to... but the roots, prefixes, and suffixes should be enough for an 800 (it was for me).</p>
<p>I have to warn you: Barron's 2400 sucks. I got a 750 CR on my first practice test, read Barron's, used their strategies, and went down to ~670. Then I stopped using the strategies and got an 800 on the next practice test, then another 800 on the March test (supposedly very hard CR).</p>