<p>im working on my passages and writing(except essay) day and night. nd hav done barrons,princetons,kaplans and 11 practice test of pricetons(book) nd yeah did i mention collegeboard.
few wise lessons from my experience:</p>
<p>for the passages keep in mind 2 avoid the following & use POE :
-deceptive language
-half-right, half-wrong answers
-extreme language( eg- the greatest of all, the one and only)
-opposite of wat is mentioned in the passage.
-not mentioned at all in the passage
-too specific or too general. (especially in questions of generalizing, summarizing) </p>
<p>the above are the keys for cracking the passages all the way, unfortunately for me i realized it a week before the exams.</p>
<p>my vocabs in a safe place. if urs isnt nd u havnt done nyting, then postpone ur date 2 november 3 NOW! cause the CR sections breathes words u never heard of.</p>
<p>im currently going through all the math sections of the practice tests.
i have jotted down points(how 2 solve,etc) for tackling all the hard questions of the math sections i hav encountered in the practice tests. i can scan my notebook if u ppl are desperate.</p>
<p>my score is currently 1800+ but im confident to raise to a 2100+ in ....5days!! how? spend 15hrs of each of the coming to days identifying my weaknesses and working on them. its a Clich</p>
<p>I got a 720 so my strategy is probably good - but not perfect - so here it goes: </p>
<ol>
<li> Read the passage and understand what’s going on</li>
<li> Go through each question, referring back to the passage for details</li>
</ol>
<p>Going to the questions first doesn’t make sense to me. How will you know what the questions are even talking about if you haven’t read the passage? Also, some questions test that you understand the main idea of the passage, and all of the wrong answers are probably geared to people who don’t actually read the passage.</p>
<p>NO, reading the the passage first is harmful in so many cases and also in mine(iv tested it) so, i wud advice u no to.
1.)read the blurb(italic font lines bfore the pssage).
2.)go 2 the questions; answer the specific questions(usually line reference ones) and then go on to the general questions(vague idea of the passage,etc)</p>
<p>NOW,After reading the blurb,and you’re ready to answer the specific questions. For the 1st specific question start reading from the start of the passage and then land up to the line u need, after reaching your line u can now obviously answr the question. now continue reading the passage from where u stopped to answer the nxt question. this is my “style”. therefore you’ll read the whole passage much faster(sumwhat) and the probability of getting all answers on the passage increases.</p>
<p>also dont try to understand(or stress) sumthing on the passage which u dint even understand after reading the line 1 or 2 times carefully.u might find that there a much simpler line ahead which connects things much clearly. </p>
<p>when they say pay attention and read, it does not mean u have to read and understand each and every word…go as fast as u can…but make sure u are understand wat the lines mean(even a vague idea will do). BUT READ THE LINE INFERENCE LINE CAREFULLY, IMBIBE IT!</p>
<p>and if u stick to the 6 points which i mentioned at the start…ull soon reach ur goal.</p>
<p>I read the whole passage back when I was in high school. Verbal score was 800. I think today the questions are even more designed to reward students who know what the passage means (from having read it) before they consider the questions than it used to be.</p>
<p>how do you divide your time when doing the reading section?
oh I always don’t have time to finish passage reading and the questions…
sometimes going back and forth between passages and questions really makes me confused..
what’s worse..sometimes I feel that I must do all the sentence completion questions..b/c I’ve already get down to two choices left but have no idea which one to choose…</p>
<p>i if u want to score well on the critical reading u MUST have an extensive vocab.
i personally have done:
princeton review list
Barron’s high frequency word list
kaplans word list
sparknotes word list.</p>
<p>if u have a powerful vocab. an important task is covered on the SAT. plus this vocab will definetly help u in college.</p>
<p>because my vocab. is strong i hardly spend 2-3minutes on 5-8 questions of sentence completion. this speed seriously builds the confidence and gives u extra time to spend on the passages</p>
<p>My diary:
The source of my life at the moment is the caffeine tablet I took yesterday.</p>
<p>I had three hours of sleep last night.
I went over some CR questions instead of having a good night sleep. Although i’m totally exhausted doing all this last min studying, i am very proud of myself. I had a great deal of improvement over last few days!
I get only 2~3 Qs wrong per in CR section now(sadly excluding the vocab part..damng). oh god, I have to go to school now. I will probably be daydreaming the whole day. poor me..</p>
<p>oh by the way, thank you for your advice on passage realding, people! i figured out looking at the Qs, before reading the passage works better for me. That way I can guess the answers while im reading it, and dont get confused by all the tricks they ues for the answer choices.</p>
<p>hehe come on guys cheer up! only four more days till we can finally put our practice to fruition! be confident with all the hard prep that you have (hopefully) done. and besides, being tense/pessimistic will almost always hurt your scores so r e l a x. oh yeah. get sleep too, it will be one heck of a marathon, but i find that taking it one section at a time helps a lot! good luck to you all!</p>
<p>I too have the SATs this Saturday. Trying to go from 720 in CR to… well… 800. I usually miss one vocab question and one passage in each section. Maybe 2 in the passages. But I feel like I’ve boosted by vocab enough that I could get them all right. The passages feel sort of subjective to me… </p>
<p>Trying to go from 710 in Math to 800. </p>
<p>Although I’d be pretty happy with a 740-760 score in either section. </p>
<p>I’ll try skimming the questions first, although I usually do passage first. </p>
<p>In math I CAN’T STOP MAKING MISTAKES GRR GRR. Like one time I did a practice - got all the hard questions right, but missed the first question. THE EASIEST ONE.</p>
<p>go to the sparknotes site for advice on the CR section.
I think it’s pretty helpful. It gives different ways to approach different kinds of CR questions. ( Short passages, long passages, paired passages, etc)</p>
<p>One of it was like, read the questions first for those really short passages…
well, just go take a look :)</p>