<p>Ok so I got a disgusting 410 on my critical reading part of the SAT (did wayyyy better on the math and writing part...can improve easily) and I have 3 months to prepare before October's SAT. I want to get somewhere between 550-580 at least. </p>
<p>Dilema: I am freaked out because I don't know how I am going to remember 950 vocab. words in 3 months. How should i prepare to get in that range. I feel extremely stressed and scared right now. I don't want this to be extremely time consuming. I am soooo scared.</p>
<p>Please give me great advice. I hate feeling like this. </p>
<p>If you are dedicated, 950 words in 3 months is not so bad. That’s only 10 words per day. If you make 20 cards each day you might learn them in only over a month. And learning words with cards is not really time consuming; perhaps 10-20 minutes per day.</p>
<p>Use the words you learn in your everyday conversations. Aim for something like ten a day, and use each word more than once.
That was how my ninth grade teacher had us learn vocabulary; I still remember quite a few (and they came in handy when I took the SAT).</p>
<p>I heaed that Direct Hits Volume 1 and 2 are great. Which one is better to memorize with: Direct Hits Volume 1 and 2 or Sparknotes 1,000 vocab. SAT list (already got 70 words down from the list)?</p>
<p>As for the passage based reading part, is doing 1 section a day until October a effacious way to improve my score to the mid to high 500’s?</p>
<p>^its not quantity as much as quality. if you DO do a section a day, make sure you’re improving as the days pass, otherwise time is being wasted. make sure you understand every right and wrong answer, and dont guess on the practice tests. if you dont know it 100% just leave it blank. that way you can really see the improvements</p>
<p>Maybe focus more on the passages more? There aren’t THAT many vocab-related questions and a lot of those you can figure out from context or eliminate.</p>