Wanna Help a Struggling Canadian?

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<p>Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and yea, I'm Canadian. I took the PSAT and got a Selection Index score of 183, which I considered pretty awful. The only good news is that I barely prepared. My math was 69, my CR and Writing were 56 and 58. I took a diagnostic SAT practice test today and got 1930 (give or take 30 or so points for the Essay portion...I gave myself a 10 lol, a 9 would've been 1920). </p>

<p>My individual scores:
Math - 670!
CR - 610!!!
Writing - 650</p>

<p>CR: I need to significantly boost my CR mark. My vocabulary sucks, so I struggle on any Sentence completion of level 4 or 5 questions and even some level 3 ones. So, what should I do, I mean in terms of what resource should I use to boost this mark? I hear the Baron's flash cards or something is helpful? Any suggestions. Also, I do reasonably well on the Passages, if the passage is not boring or way too dull. The one's that are a little entertaining to read, I get 1 or 2 wrong out of around 12 q's.</p>

<p>Math: My strong point. I have no clue why I keep making dumb mistakes. What book or tips can I use to get my Math to around 750+? I feel that my Math score should be the one that boost's my overall score, so I need help.</p>

<p>Writing: I do well on sentence corrections(replacing sentence parts with better ones), make some errors on things that require knowledge or grammar rules, etc. I have basically done nothing in term of learning grammar rules and such and I got the 650, so I feel that if I learn a lot of rules and whatever I need, I should be able to improve a lot. So, what books, materials, resources are helpful with this section. I need help particularly with the identifying sentence errors as it confused me at times. </p>

<p>Thanks a lot in advance. I appreciate any and all help. I am really hoping to get my score to 2100+. My parents are going to be moving to the US in a year or so I am not even considering Canadian universities. Thus, this SAT means a lot to me, since I have a high average at my school, but if I do crap on the SAT (IMO <2100, this by no means is meant to be offensive, this is what I expect for myself) then my grades will look inflated and my curriculum will look like crap. And as an intern'l student, I want to be extremely competitive and want to get accepted to my top choices for various reasons (lower international tuition, close to family, good rep., etc.)</p>

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<p>CR: A quick way to improve vocab (for me at least) is to memorize some latin/greek prefix/suffix and some common word roots. Barron’s 3500 words CAN be used… but its largely inefficient and has words that will never appear on the SAT. But, if you memorize all of those words you will probably know most of the words on the SAT.</p>

<p>Math: Depends on whether you know the material or not. If you don’t know it, use Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2009. If you do know the material, 1) learn to tell whether the answer makes sense (like if you get a odd number when you multiply two even numbers) 2) do TONS of math competition problems like the AMC (or Canadian competitions… I’m not really familiar with them). Although they are complete overkill for the brainwork required for the SAT math section, their useful for getting used to the random curveballs CB throws at you. the AoPS forums ([Art</a> of Problem Solving Forum](<a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php]Art”>http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php)) and their entire site in general is useful for that kind of stuff.</p>

<p>Writing: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/747042-strangecamuss-sat-grammar-guide.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/747042-strangecamuss-sat-grammar-guide.html&lt;/a&gt;. Learn all the key things. Know them cold. BB can help you here.</p>

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