<p>Hey, guys. </p>
<p>Could you please tell me your schedule that got you 800 on writing?
I am scoring 700-710 on writing... </p>
<p>I really need 800 on writing section... I practiced every freakin shingle day, and I still miss 4-5 questions... </p>
<p>Some of them are really ambiguous.. Please... tell me your schedule...</p>
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<p>Read a lot. I find that reading helps more than nervously writing over and over again… Reading increases your spelling skills (and helps with the CR section too!), also if you read even the simplest of books, it helps with your recognition of sentence structure. Does that make sense? Review grammar concepts. </p>
<p>I followed a pretty intense schedule for the SATs the first time I took them, but was pretty lax the second time around since I already had all my strategies down.</p>
<p>Review strategies and common mistakes; get those DOWN. Spend about 30 minutes on them every time you review, for maybe a few days until you remember what they are and can apply them to the writing section. Don’t spend more than a week on those.</p>
<p>READ. READ SOMETHING. Preferably large books. Speed up your reading, and hone your critical analysis skills. This may take the most time out of anything.</p>
<p>Then do the problems; at first, I didn’t just go through practice test after practice test. On the first section of writing that I did, I would do what I understood and see if I got those right. After that, I would go over the ones I had trouble with and figure out which strategy/ common mistake applied to them.
Do those for the 35-min writing sections.</p>
<p>For the 10-min writing section mc questions, go through various ones as fast and as accurately as you can and try to get all of them right WITHOUT looking at the answers until the end to check.</p>
<p>After that… it’s just more reading and more strategies.</p>
<p>Oh, and I got a 2240 on the SAT when I took it sophomore year for the sake of appeasing my parents, with a 760 on the writing (11 essay…)</p>
<p>The second time was actually this month (May 5th) and I got a decent 2370. (770 M, 800 W, 800 CR). 12 essay. </p>
<p>And don’t worry. Nobody needs a 800 on anything. 
Just do well on all the sections, and they’ll compensate for themselves.</p>
<p>READ.
(sorry, I can’t stress that enough.)</p>
<p>Hi. When I started prepping for the SAT, I was at the 700-ish mark too. I went through the Sparknotes’ Seven Deadly Screw-ups and also borrowed someone’s Barron’s 2400 and worked through its Writing section. These things didn’t really help my score though because at the 700 point (when you’re missing 3-4), you already know the basics.</p>
<p>So I decided to actually study grammar. I went through Silverturtle’s Guide and took notes on things I that had been struggling with (ex: when to use gerunds vs infinitives) and I also looked up other grammar rules on the Internet to add to my notes. After having learned the finer aspects of grammar, I took practice tests. When I got a question wrong, I would look up in my notes what concept it was testing (or if it wasn’t on there, I’d add it) and after a few practice tests my scores went up to 78+ on the MC consistently. I ended up with an 800 (80MC) on the May SAT.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this’ll work for you, but it’s worth a try. Good luck!</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, and yes, reading is awesome. If you have a lot of time to prepare, I suggest you read a lot and you won’t even have to study much because correct grammar will come naturally to you.</p>
<p>I read Silverturtle’s Grammar Guide and took thorough notes (1 day). Then I memorized (like word for word) the notes I took (1 day). After that I took a practice test and ended up with an 80 MC (1 day). 3 days for a perfect multiple choice score (well actually 2 but you need to substantiate what you learned haha).</p>
<p>I got an 800 in January.
I think Silverturtle’s guide is a bit overkill for the SAT grammar. You don’t need to know the terminology or anything. A lot of grammar is intuitive, there are some basic rules to know like comma splices, not only/but also, either/or, etc, but for the most part, I don’t think you’ll need to memorize Silverturtle’s guide (it’s a fantastic guide overall, this is just my opinion about the writing section). If you havent already, reading the Sparknotes Seven Deadly Screw-ups (or something like that) is a really good grounding and the rest of the writing section is primarily thinking critically about which answer choices don’t make sense and recognizing patterns (subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, etc).</p>
<p>800er too! 80 MC and 12 essay, to be exact.
Browsing through the posts on CC helped a lot with finding the way. I recommend doing practice sections a lot after you get your strategy down! practice them. drill them. find grammar mistakes in articles. as for the essay, I really hated when teachers assigned essays so I worked at my own pace doing them once a week. read “12 essay in 10 days” and use it well! fill up 2 pages! use the official CB essay paper! (for me, I just counted the number of lines on it and used notebook paper.)</p>
<p>I practiced writing essay topics and coming up with examples. The essay can raise/lower your score considerably. On my SAT, I scored a 77 on the mc portion with an 11 on the essay and got an 800. So be sure to not downplay the significance of the essay.</p>
<p>So basically read, take notes and it’s an 800? Don’t you need to practice at all?</p>
<p>^ Of course you need practice you silly goose</p>
<p>Like how many practice tests did you go through?</p>