Tips for SAT?

[Bemusedfyz]

<p>This would probably be better in the SAT subforum. But anyways:</p>

<p>1) DO NOT prep vocabulary. The odds of one of your prepped words being tested are minuscule, and, even if a word does come up, you would have wasted waaaaaay too much time prepping for a single question. Good vocabulary comes from years of reading-- it’s too late to prep that now.</p>

<p>2) Practice practice practice. This is particularly necessary for the CR section. Earlier, I posted this for the SAT Lit test, I think it’s true of the CR too:</p>

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Because the test is multiple-choice, only one interpretation will be valid for any given literary piece. When prepping for the test, I found that practicing with practice tests was far more effective because it taught me how to predict the ‘test’s interpretation’ of the literary pieces and therefore choose the correct answers. I think that doing well on the Lit test is just an exercise in predicting the memorandum and thereby ‘gaming the system’, not actually knowing or understanding literature.

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<p>In essence, get a feel for the type of answer that the CR section is looking for. There is a big difference between the ‘right answer’ and the one on the SAT marking sheet, but you’ll need to give them what they want.</p>