<p>I've been doing vocabulary for a long time now (3/4 through GRE's 3500 word list) and I read excerpts from newpapers, Science and Nature magazines daily. I've signed up for the SAT online course and have done 4 practice verbal sections in the blue book, looking up the answers to ALL the questions and understanding their solutions. However, everytime, I always get 21/24 on the first verbal section and somewhat better on the second and third verbal sections, like 23/24 and 18/19. This always amounts to around 700 verbal. How can I improve to 750+? Reading old solutions don't seem to help that much because each passage is different. Sometimes I can pull of a 24/24 in a section or a 19/19, but I can't do it consistently and thus have never made 800. I'm desperate, could someone offer some other advice to pulling your score to the 750-800 region? Thanks.</p>
<p>quite honestly, it is REALLY hard to raise from a 700 to a 750+ unless that 700 was just you on a bad day or a bad fluke.</p>
<p>I really don't know how to raise your CR score... reading is more of a thing that you can't study for, it's a lifelong process. Too bad I learned that lesson too late (didn't really start reading seriously until I was a sophomore in HS), and even through studying my @$$ off for the SAT reading section, I was extremely lucky to pull off a 680 (that was definitely a fluke, because on practice tests I generally score in the low 600s)</p>
<p>I'm not quite sure exactly how hard it is to raise your score from a 700 to a 750 bu I'm positive that it's possible. I know several people that have done it. One went from a 1410 to a 1600. So, it may entail a whole lot of work on your part but its definitely humanly possible.</p>
<p>I was thinking the exact same thing. On the first two tests i got 8 wrong. Then I got 6 wrong. Finally I got only 3 wrong. But on the practice sections before the tests I got only like 20/25, 30/34, etc. I got a 760 on old SAT verbal, so this is very annoying. For me, I guess, it comes down to how interesting the passages are. Honestly, if I see a passage about art or literature, I know I will probably get one wrong here cause I hate both. Whereas if it is about science or time travel, I feel much more confident.</p>