<p>Hmm. Nothing you haven't already heard. I'll tell you what I'd have you do even though it's probably all familiar to you.</p>
<p>First, clear your schedule. :)</p>
<p>Second, at this point it's really all about the practice tests: vocab and reading outside material are not going to help you so much. (I say this knowing from your other posts that you've already studied a lot of words). I wouldn't try to learn <em>any</em> new words: only review.</p>
<p>Third, spend two to three hours a day doing practice sections, if you can. (Oh joy.) Or even more if you've got a relaxed semester (not likely, I know). Basically as much as you can without exhausting yourself or jeopardizing your fall grades. Obviously, you will want to stop this by the Thurs. or Fri. before your test. </p>
<p>Fourth, divide your practice section time roughly in half. Spend half of it on realistic practice on real College Board SATs. I believe that you have quite a stash. Try to get through everything you've got; repeat old sections if necessary. As you work through the tests, find a way to break down every single choice. Force yourself to do this mechanically: actually make marks in the choices that help you break them in pieces. Look for the word or phrase (often in the middle of the choice) that makes the choice wrong.</p>
<p>Spend the other half of it doing questions that will definitely challenge you from <em>real</em> graduate-level tests. I recommend the GRE (as I've mentioned to you before). I've also recently had some luck using the LSAT for drills with top SAT scorers.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I remember from another one of your posts that you have trouble with inference questions. There's an <em>entire section</em> on the LSAT that's essentially inference questions. Here's an example of one: </p>
<ol>
<li>Campaigning for election to provincial or state office frequently requires that a candidate spend much time and energy catering to the interests of national party officials who can help the candidate to win office. The elected officials who campaign for reelection while they are in office thus often fail to serve the interests of their local constituencies.</li>
</ol>
<p>Which one of the following is an assumption made by the argument?</p>
<p>A) Catering to the interests of national party officials sometimes conflict with serving the interests of a provincial or state official's local constituencies.
B) Only by catering to the interests of national party officials can those who hold provincial or state office win reelection.
C) The interests of local constituencies are well served only by elected officails who do not cater to the interests of national party officials.
D) Officials elected to provincial or state office are obligated to serve only the interests of constituents who belong to the same party as do the officials.
E) All elected officials are likely to seek reelection to those offices that are not limited to one term. </p>
<p>If this kind of question sounds like an example of the types of question you miss on the SAT, you could do a few of these LSAT sections (it's called the Logical Reasoning section) and see if you feel helped. I would focus primarily on actual reading passages, but a few Logical Reasoning questions wouldn't hurt.</p>
<p>Lastly--and I can't emphasize this enough!--you need to decide on a strategy <em>and stick to it</em>. I notice that you have several live questions up on CC in about the last week. I would suggest that you stop checking CC at all within a day or two--disappear completely from these forums until your test. Why? Well, in the worst-case scenario, you will end up receiving conflicting advice from CC'ers and will second-guess yourself. In the best-case scenario, you will spend a lot of your creative energy trying to synthesize a lot of excellent advice. I say this with all the respect in the world for the help you've offered your fellow students on this board. You need to put your entire focus on practice problems: at this point, anything else--even including other people's good advice--is likely to be a distraction more than a help. That probably goes even for this last post from me. :6</p>
<p>Lastly, realize that going for that perfect CR 800 is extremely difficult to achieve by SAT prep alone <em>especially</em> for international/nonnative speakers. Those last 40-50 points can depend a lot of a mastery of the nuances and idioms of English, which sucks, but there's just not a whole lot you can do about it at this point except cross your fingers and hope you don't hit a lot of those questions. Your CR score is going to be a standout. I'd say that 760+ for someone not born in the U.S., whose first language is not English, is going to get noticed. </p>
<p>I realize that most of that was redundant. Wish I could tell you something more useful. Good luck!</p>