<p>Please be munificent and throw the strategy for doing passages in SAT</p>
<p>And one more q will the Barron Practice test work to increase my sat score.</p>
<p>No, Barron's will lower your score.</p>
<p>^really? lol. I'm glad that I've got so much official material to deal with that I have no time for barron's.</p>
<p>Personally, I really like Barron's. I did the Barron's orange book, and then moved on to other test prep books, and Barron's makes those other ones REALLY easy. I have yet to take the real thing, but I've done much better on practice tests.</p>
<p>All outside practice problems that AREN'T from the CB are almost worthless. </p>
<p>My tactic: Read the passage FULLY, answer the questions. Really unique and strange tactic, I admit, but I got my 800 that way....</p>
<p>read weally weally fast.</p>
<p>raed ralely rlelay fsat</p>
<p>I understand where you're coming from by saying it's worthless, but I disagree. Barron's basically takes concepts that are often on the SAT and just makes them harder.</p>
<p>^ why waste your time practicing harder stuff? The "illusion" of doing Barron's is that the real thing will be easier if you study harder versions of the same concepts. WRONG. The real thing will still be difficult because Barron's materials only tests what's in Barrons. </p>
<p>Test prep books are designed to make you feel like you are improving. Therefore, every Barron's practice problem can be cracked using Barron's tactics. They also wont test vocab that they don't cover. But the real thing doesn't care about that. So the problems will throw you off.</p>
<p>Take my word for it. I studied Barron's for the PSAT and it was worthless compared to using the BB.</p>
<p>um yeah.
barrons is pretty much useless.
i do, however, give props to barrons for its writing skills practice, but that's it.</p>
<p>the math is way too abstract too be put on the SAT, and the CR is just downright weird.
i agree with lolcats,</p>
<p>read the passage fully before you attempt any questions, then go back and refer to lines if you have to. i got an 800 on the june SAT CR (i missed 2)</p>
<p>1) read passage
2) answer questions
3) rinse and repeat until proctor says to stop
4) wait for 800</p>
<p>Anybody who tries to outsmart the CR section with clever strategies is outsmarting himself.</p>
<p>my strategy:
-read the passage and underline a lot. it doesn't really help me in reviewing, but it helps me stay focused and feel more secure when I say "ooh I underlined that" when I read a question (however, some people will probably disagree with that).
-answer the questions. think about the complete implications of an answer (I had trouble with this: an arboreal pathogens question was stuck between "the inspectors failed to intercept a majority" or "most of the baggage has pathogens," because I was thinking about the mathematical probability).
-review when you're done.</p>
<p>fully agree with choklitrain</p>
<p>i hear all over cc about CR "strategies"
what the heck?</p>
<p>and what is this about memorizing huge lists of words? pretty much any SC can be owned
with just a little POE</p>
<p>I just bracket the lines stated in the questions, and read a line or two before them and after them.</p>
<p>^ That's asking for trouble in my opinion.</p>
<p>It's not hard at all to read the whole thing, and then answer the questions. I RARELY ever refer back to the passage after reading it thoroughly ONCE.</p>
<p>I'm well aware of your 800 in CR, lolcats, so I know I should heed your advice, but the strategy I described helped bring me up from a mid 560 score to in the 600s. I'll try it your way though, when I take a practice SAT.</p>
<p>^ Try to jump into the 700s :)</p>
<p>It will take some work, but learn to read through the passage quickly, once, without feeling like you know nothing when you finished. </p>
<p>Then go to the questions. If you can't seem to answer one right away, move on QUICKLY to the next ones. I find that later questions can teach me the answers to earlier, trickier questions.</p>
<p>Yeah..I don't think brackets are too useful in the long run.</p>
<p>lol, don't feel that you can't reach the 700s.
i started out getting 510s in CR
after a bit of practice (practice, not 'strategies' is the way to success)
and now...i'm at 800.</p>
<p>mostly luck, from my experience...my standardized testing scores have been quite erratic, from mid 600's to 800...and no, not even part of a progression.</p>