<p>lil killer ru a non-native speaker? or do u jus hav trouble reading</p>
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lil killer ru a non-native speaker? or do u jus hav trouble reading
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I would think the problem is the latter. I am fine with reading, but I have trouble understanding.</p>
<p>if you have trouble understanding what you've read you are NOT a good reader.</p>
<p>reading is 99% comprehension. the other 1% is the ability to recognize words.</p>
<p>"so the blue book is the "OFFICIAL SAT STUDY GUIDE" BY college board???"</p>
<p>evan93023 - yes.</p>
<p>Why don't you and your doctor work together to get some accomodations for your testing? Instead of wasting hours of your life studying that you will never get back?</p>
<p>My first SAT scores was a 1770. I got 100% additional time accomodations and got a 2220 on the second testing WITH NO ADDITIONAL PREPARATION.</p>
<p>yes, the online essay automatic grading by CB. I copy and pasted a news article and recieved a 5!!! so later I just give up using it</p>
<p>Aw... what a POS :(</p>
<p>thecomisar, the link u posted has a book published in 2004, is it up to date with the current SAT?</p>
<p>I really admire your goals--if you actually follow through with your plans, I'll be even more impressed.</p>
<p>When studying for the SATs, don't just read magazines. As much as I love news magazines, reading only current events just doesn't cut it for the SATs, especially for the essay section. Read different things. Novels and history books are very good to mix it up and will provide both pleasure and an interesting stock of facts for the SAT.</p>
<p>Example of good novels to read are The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Crime & Punishment, and Pride & Prejudice. These cover a wide variety of themes and are also Sparknote-able, which, if used in conjunction with actually reading, can help guide you as to what you're looking for and if you really are on track synthesizing the information. Reading history books also help. Someone suggested reading wikipedia a lot and using it to research your favorite presidents. That's a really good idea, and it's generally a good website, but wikipedia also has lots of mis-information. So get your history from books and other websites, too.</p>
<p>Use vocab flashcards and whenever you don't know a word, look it up and write the definition down. Review these often--always keep a few in your pocket/wallet in case of downtime like waiting in a line or something. Using these words in conversations and in writing also helps.</p>
<p>As far as grammar goes, I can't remember the name of the book, but in Barnes & Nobles there was one book that actually had all the common rules and examples in them. This was by far the most helpful thing I could find, for nearly every other book gives examples, but does not include what the rules are. Strunk & White's book on writing is also helpful here (and in the future).</p>
<p>By the way, these tips really do help. I did OK on the writing the first time I took it, but drastically improved the second time. I think it's mainly because I practiced so much (I took a journalism class, I read lots of really good books, and made vocab cards).</p>