<p>Ok, I'm an International, and I'll take the SAT in two years. My English is very good, so the first year I'll follow a course of advanced English and during the second year I'll study with a tutor, for the SAT.
But during this first year what can I do in order to improve the SAT I Pre-reuirements ?
Or better, what's the SAT I pre-requirements ?</p>
<p>For math I'm more than Ok, But for CR and W, what's the ability I have to improve, being an International ? </p>
<p>I don't know, my english vocabulary or something else... ^^</p>
<p>By pre-requirements you mean SAT preparation?
If so, given that you have lot of time, the best preparation for the CR and W sections would be to read lots of classic books.
Because you are an international you probably have lots of room for improvement in the SAT verbal sections.</p>
<p>By pre-requirement I mean the abilities (lessical knowledge ecc ecc. ) I must have in order to approach a SAT Preparation with a tutor for 1 year in a good way…</p>
<p>You tell me I have to read some classic book… This is useful… </p>
<p>I’m reading Romeo and Juliet and I hate “thou art” XDXD</p>
<p>I found that following books particularly improved my vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Anna Karenina
The Last of the Mohicans
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
One Hundred Years of Solitude
and as you have lots of time you may as well read Jane Austen’s works.
Also reading The Norton Reader is a great way acquaint yourself with various types of reading material and improve your comprehension.
As you may know, reading through two volumes of Direct Hits books is an excellent way to improve your SAT vocabulary.
There’s also AcademicHacker’s very effective guide on writing SAT essays. It should be somewhere in the back of the SAT prep forum.</p>
<p>Hello Enrico! I’m from Italy too and since I’ve already taken a SAT maybe I can give you some useful advices. As you said math won’t be a problem, but don’t underrate it! Otherwise you’ll always make some mistakes, due to a lack of attention, that won’t allow you to get a full score. </p>
<p>The secret to crush the critical reading section is to read actively. This is something which is gonna be neglected given the questionable attitude to provide an always growing number of students with textbooks whose information are already “digested” and ready to be assimilated. The fundamental process of extrapolating them is skipped and no way is left to the student to think with their own head. That’s why I like so much those old-fashioned books without -or with few yet sensible- illustrations.</p>
<p>To read actively means to understand a various number of information which can be totally inferred from the text. For example, this may include to explain a metaphore, the attitude of sb towards sth, to summarize a paragrahp, to discern between important and superfluous informations, to clarify the logical interconnection between sentences or to confront two similar texts about the same topic. You cannot just let the words flow all along into your brain as if you were reading a novel trying to depict their meaning, you have to stop and ask yourself questions! </p>
<p>I’d suggest you to buy the SAT study guide and get accustomed as soon as possible with those kind of passages. </p>
<p>To write properly needs more training and someone willing to help you in correcting your draft essays. </p>
<p>Your vocabulary will increase by itself with constant reading. </p>
<p>In any case the key to success is to work everyday. You build a house from the basement to the roof adding birck after birck, day by day. There’s no way to do it differently if you want a solid house, no way to build it at the last minute.</p>