<p>Hey guys, I'm looking for some advice before I take this test for the last time.
I was 40 points short of my goal the last time I took it -Oct 2009 and I canceled my January score.
Basically, what's keeping me from my goal is
1 Math Question- this will probably go away with more and more practice, but I have this habit of always missing one math question
2-3 CR Questions I'm not talking about Passage questions as much as Sentence completion... on the October test I missed THREE sentence completion and two from passages.
1 Writing Question- My grammar skills are pretty weak, and I usually go through the test with "does it sound correct"/"is this a common error"/"is this the correct idiom"/"subject-verb agreement" in mind. I don't think I can improve this quickly in such a short amount of time, so I decided I should rather focus on improving my essay writing skills. I think it's more worthwhile to try to raise my essay score from an 8-9 to a 10-11 as that probably will help a lot more than say going from -1 to -0 in the multiple choice.
The Essay prompt: Some prompts -say 70% of them, I can churn out an essay relatively quickly and confidently for. Others, I will just freeze, staring at the prompt. I need some good, easily tweaked examples that will lend themselves to a wide variety of essays prompts.</p>
<p>Any suggestions? I'm going to try cramming in a vocab list before March, but I need to choose between my "UNOFFICIAL" book or the set of 2000 that I got from my prep class. As for math, I guess I'll just have to take more tests. For writing though, what are some good ways to improve my example bank?</p>