<p>My brothers and sisters at College Confidential...</p>
<p>I signed up for the June SAT a few months ago, but have only started preparing a few days ago. Now I have a week to suss out the SAT for the upcoming test, and i need your advice.</p>
<p>maths will be sweet - 800 with no errors.
critical reading seems hard to prepare for outside of practice, though it seems the key is to a)fully understand each passage's intent and b)read and comprehend each question fully
writing is what i'm most worried about - because without prior preparation, especially with all the grammatical intricacies, I have to go mainly on intuition, which is inherently flawed, as such I got about 10 wrong last practice test.
the essay, I'm not too worried about as I'm a fairly competent essay writer.</p>
<p>So fellow citizens of CC, how should i got about prepping for the SAT in a week... in particular the writing section?</p>
<p>Why can’t some start a thread with the title: how to study for SATs in 4 years. It’ll be much more helpful -sigh-.</p>
<p>As for writing, I recommend this for everyone since it raised my score from 650 -790, Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
It’s very short. Fear not.</p>
<p>Then do a practice test a day, especially the writing sections, and make a list of all the sentences you corrected incorrectly (lol).</p>
<p>Elements of Style is a fantastic resource, but it will cover a lot that’s not necessary for the SAT. The most predictable bulk of SAT writing errors can be broken down thusly:</p>
<p>*Verb errors (subject-verb disagreement, or tense)
*Pronoun errors (watch out for “they” replacing a singular antecedent)
*Parallelism (lists must maintain form: “I like skiing, biking, and horseback riding”)
*Faulty Comparisons (compare people to people and things to things: “Joe’s salary is much higher than that of the vice president.”)
*Run-on sentences (two independent clauses can’t be held together no matter how short they are: “Yesterday I went swimming, a shark ate my friend” is short, but it’s a run-on.)
*Dangling modifiers (Sentences that begin by describing the subject without naming it MUST name the subject immediately after the comma that ends the modifier. Ex: WRONG: “Fleeing from the horde of zombies, a secure looking building appeared to the survivors.” RIGHT “Fleeing from the horde of zombies, the survivors spotted a secure looking building.”</p>
<p>The last two error types come into play much more often in the Sentence Improvement section than the Error ID section.</p>
<p>When in doubt: shorter answers are usually best.</p>
<p>Nail these down first since they’re the most common. When you’re not missing any of these ever, then you can have a go at Elements of Style. :)</p>
<p>i would just do those practice questions like if there was no tomorrow</p>
<p>im latino and it was sort of hard to get the catch on those writing/reading questions but i think i have it now and im also taking it june the 4th</p>