<p>dude CR is easy to get up. don't worry. your solid. what grade are you in again?</p>
<p>I'm in 11th grade, but my CR score haven't budged since i took the psat last year (which i got a 400 something). I've tried a bunch of stuff but nothing works for me, I'll try to memorize some vocab this summer and retake it in the fall. But for the saturday exam, im just hoping for a 600</p>
<p>you're sick nasty in math and writing. vocab is key for SC. and reading. is just reading. make it second nature.</p>
<p>@Quicksandslowly, the prompt for the March SAT was either:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Are organizations or groups most successful when their members pursue individual wishes and goals?</p></li>
<li><p>Should people always be loyal?</p></li>
<li><p>Do people learn more from losing than from winning?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>All of these fall under one or two of my categories I mentioned before. =P
1. (Individuality)
2. (Choice... will)
3. (Past experience... success vs. failure)</p>
<p>Anyway, I got the first one, and I think it was the hardest.
I wrote about how individuals who choose to pursue their own goals are indirectly helping their whole group.
Example 1: Evolution... gave a specific one in the form of amphibians... fishes who left the sea etc.
Example 2: Adam Smith, Capitalism... <--- This one was pretty evident.
I also wanted to write about the Mongols and Changhez Khan <--- How one man is known for the doings of a whole group... etc. But then I just thought I'd mess up my whole thing. Oh well.</p>
<p>Scored an 8/12.</p>
<p>Have fun! ;)</p>
<p>@Jumpngo, Why not aim for the best, and why not start now, eh? I didn't take the bloody test, ugh. I went to sleep and just woke up. :(
I don't look at the questions I got right unless I know I should... (and I know when I should). Sometimes I like to put a 'G' next to the questions I guessed on (if I do guess and this isn't something I do frequently) and if I get it right, I still go back and see the explanation. </p>
<p>@voodoo_santa, Congrats! Awesome frickin score in Math and Writing. :)
Let's hope the Saturday test is that easy.</p>
<p>oh please god let it be. let a lot of scrubs take it and do bad so the curve is super generous.however, i don't like to depend on luck for a good score.... I think im going to take a full SAT tmr sinc eim off school... hrmmm</p>
<p>I think I'm going to start mine in around an hour... and then wake up till like 3 or 4. I have late openings tomorrow. ;)</p>
<p>Or maybe I just won't time it and take a few of the sections tomorrow. (Meh, I know I'll probably end up timing it... humbug!)</p>
<p>holy balls. I just finished a FULL test, including the essay =]. And I got my 2 pages. I had a line 3/4 left. Anyways, CR, I believe, should be PRETTY good. I didn't freaking know what hubris or facetious meant, but I should've known them cuz I leanred them before. 1st and 3rd passages were, luckily, kind of interesting. THe middle one was blah, but I think i still pulled something off there. I just hope I dont' get slapped in the face, and get crushed by the problems I missed..... I'll post later. </p>
<p>comment on the other thread*</p>
<p>disregard the last sentence i typed.
Scores:
CR: 640-720 (2nd time seeing score in 700, idc if its the highest =])
M: 600-660 (got my ass kicked; didn't answer 5, and i scored 1 question wrong that i should've got right) If that makes any difference..
W: 610-740 (auto scorer gave me a 10 for my essay.)
<em>missed 8 in CR, and 11 in W, 7 in M</em>
Feed and voodoo, how do ya'll crush writing? tip me.</p>
<p>insolvent;expeditious;circumscribe;rambunctious;belied;tempered;myopic;irate;dispatch (thenoun);**occlude<a href="some%20of%20the%20words%20I%20was%20not%20familiar%20with">/b</a></p>
<p>most likely to forget: insolvent, myopic, belied, and occlude. (help w/ mnemonics if possibe?) thx.</p>
<p>"The Bee lied to me: belied" - from that vocab website.</p>
<p>Nice job on the test, especially the CR. I think you made a mistake on grading your math though, 5 omit + 1 wrong = raw score of 48 and thats a 670-730 range in the BB.</p>
<p>For the writing, most of the questions are just subject-verb agreement and the harder questions tend to try and trick you by adding a bunch of stuff in the middle. What I do when a see an underlined verb is to figure out which subject it's referring to and whether it's in the correct thing or not. The thing I have trouble with is figuring out when to use I, he, she and stuff rather than me, him, her.</p>
<p>the I, he, she is used as the SUBJECT; me, him her, are used in the objective of the preposition or whatever. if its not the subject, then use the other one.</p>
<p>And in math i missed like 9 or something plus the omit 5, but i really missed 8 (b/c i graded one wrong that i got right)</p>
<p>if i can get 700s in 2 sections id' be good for this weekend. of course, it would be AWESOME if i could in all 3 sections, but ;oawiefj;owaiefjwe. If i get two 700s , then in october i would only have to super worry a/b that one section. GAH.</p>
<p>could i list some of my writing problems and you could tell me how to not solve it wrong, how you do it etc.</p>
<p>^ go ahead I'll try to the best I could if I know how, but what do you mean by not solving it wrong?</p>
<p>in other words- getting it RIGHT. lol.</p>
<p>how many did you usually miss in the 35 quiestion section for Writing? Which ones? the identifying errors? or correcting sentences? paragraphs?</p>
<p>i'm just going to list the #s and section so there is not copyright violation etc.</p>
<p>Test #7 section #3</p>
<p>I missed: 7, 9, 25, 26, 29, 33, and 35. Could you analyze potential WHYS, like why do I get it wrong, is there a pattern? etc? HOW do YOU not miss them, etc. Thanks!</p>
<p>Jumngo,</p>
<p>The trick with the multiple choice questions in the SAT Writing sections is to know what error types you tend to overlook. Its not just about understanding the concepts. I often have students who get a problem wrong and say Oh that was dumb. Clearly that was subject-verb agreement error [or whatever other error] and just move on. Yet, theyll make the same mistake over and over again. You need to devise a way to stop being careless and overlooking certain errors.</p>
<p>So, the first thing you should do is go back over ALL the tests youve taken from the Blue Book and categorize each problem that you got wrong according to its error type. Then determine which error type you miss the most. At first it may just seem like you make random errors, but after youve taken and analyzed a number of practice test youll be able to see that you overlook x-type at a greater percentage than all the other error types. This is the only way to objectively analyze your results. I have students who think they know a certain question type cold, but when I show them their results, theyre shocked to see that, say, 40% of their incorrect answers are from that question type. </p>
<p>Once youve identified the most common error type that you overlook, every time you do a Writing Section problem, make the conscious effort to check that you havent overlooked that error type. Eventually itll become second nature, and you wont miss any of those problems. Then do the same for your second most overlooked error type until you stop missing those questions. Rinse and repeat until youre getting near perfect scores on every test.</p>
<p>I know its a lot of work, but its definitely worth it. The SAT (especially with the Writing Sections) is a test of precision. Its not enough to just know the concepts. The CollegeBoard people know that students write imprecisely, read imprecisely, and do math imprecisely, so they devise questions in a way that its easy to overlook something even for the knowledgeable. The best students train themselves to pay attention to details and not be careless. </p>
<p>The reason that precision (or lack of carelessness) is so important in the Writing Sections in particular is that grammar is a relatively easy subject to improve upon quickly. Many students have realized that the Writing sections mostly test for grammar, so they learn the concepts, which has recently shifted the grading curves for the Writing sections. Whereas on the Math and Critical Reading Sections you could get one question wrong and still score an 800, if you get just one problem wrong on the Writing Sections, you could lose as much as 30 points. </p>
<p>Ill stop rambling here. If you need some personal help with the Writing Sections, list every Writing multiple choice question you got wrong on each of the Blue Book tests and send me an email. Ill analyze your result for you.</p>
<p>I see you listed some of the problems already. I don't notice any pattern from that one section. All the questions seem to deal with different error types. We would need a much larger sample size to give a good analysis.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you got the email; i just sent one to you.</p>
<p>yeah, I got it. This may take a little bit. I'll shoot you back an email when I'm done.</p>
<p>ah. you are godsend.</p>