<p>I copied someone else's concept (the secret for the 800 in Math).</p>
<p>So what is the secret, mostly the reading passages?</p>
<p>Reading A LOT. Making sure you understand what you read. </p>
<p>Vocabulary.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm trying to get good at it and raise my CR score, it seems to be the hardest thing to improve. I've improved math and writing a lot just by learning how to do the problems.</p>
<p>Well, I'd say it's reading a lot (which gives you comprehension skills, exposure to many different writing styles, and a better vocabulary) and not overanalyzing answer choices.</p>
<p>i've never realized how much i enjoy reading "the economist's" passages ..</p>
<p>soprolahh yeah they are pretty enjoyable. I read like 10 of them last night. I'm thinking of subscribing to their magazine.</p>
<p>any good prices for "the economist" please tell me. I just want to make sure I'm getting the best deal for the best magazine ever (:</p>
<p>Are you serious?!</p>
<p>I think "The Economist" is very dry and boring!</p>
<p>i guess reading helps if you're a freshman and have a couple of years to prep yourself. but if you're a junior or a rising senior trying to do some last-minute studying before october, VOCABULARY is the only way out. memorize 15 words a night. 15. that's not so hard. seriously get the vocab points nice and fast and make more time for the reading comprehension questions.</p>
<p>THIS WORKED FOR ME. i went from 650 in verbal to 790 the next time i took it.</p>
<p>I don't have trouble with the vocabulary part though. I have trouble with the passage-based questions.</p>
<p>oh. </p>
<p>then the best thing you can do really is pray the night before that the passages will be on topics you know a little bit about (i guess this goes back to reading. i'd recommend the new york times magazine and time/newsweek esp the editorial sections). also, DONT ASSUME anything from the passage unless it asks you to. rely only on what you've read to answer most of the questions. most of the times i'll find that i get questions wrong because i was "thinking smarter" or reading too far into the question.</p>
<p>yeah .. i seriously have problems tackling passages that deal with art, some literature .. etc. science, biographies, and anything with history is + for me.</p>
<p>i got a 670 and now i'm getting 740+.</p>
<p>just take satII lit, and then CR seems like a breeze.</p>
<p>The 15 words a night deal doesn't sound too bad. I guess if you remember all of those words by the time you take the SAT in october, assuming you start now, youll have around 1000 words added to your vocabulary.</p>
<p>I'm gonna do this, it's pretty easy to do 15 a night.</p>
<p>1,000?</p>
<p>you probably only need about 50-200 words for the SAT outside of common knowledge depending on your current vocabulary.</p>
<p>a 1000 words is a lot to learn. i think it would be better to limit the list. i suggest sparknotes 250 most diffucult SAT words. I just found it today. </p>
<p>1000, but 3/4 of them will be forgotten.</p>
<p>Choose defendable answers. Don't choose an answer you "feel" is right. Choose an answer you can defend.</p>
<p>Practice practice practice!! use all the practice tests you can get your hands on, and start reading as many higher level books as you can. I applied this strategy and went from a 690 to score an 800 and a 750</p>
<p>I started studying the 1000-word-list in May, and finished memorizing them in July.now I am just going all over them again, remember you got to review them almost every day. Its really a boring,and enervating task, but it really pays off, for 2 months ago, I didn't even have a clue about the completion questions, but now I can do most of them.</p>
<p>and also I recommend using the barron 800 fre list along with the sparknotes one.</p>
<p>Just knowing vocabulary definitions will not increase your scores in the CR section.
You MUST know the logic of how the vocabulary is used in the sentence.
All vocabulary with no logic = Failure of CR SCs</p>
<p>Also, read the whole sentence and try out ALL answer choices to see which one fits best.</p>
<p>We must never forget that the SAT is a logic test.
There are my two cents.</p>
<p>Thank you for your statement, Chris_CEEAE.</p>