<p>So what is the best way to bring a CR score of 430 to 700 in 1 month . What books to use? How many hours prep each day? What is the best vocab list out there?</p>
<p>1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration</p>
<p>did it work for you? Perspiration? what?</p>
<p>MANY, MANY practice tests and Barron's 3500 word word list.</p>
<p>exactly how good is the barron's list? i've heard alot about it.</p>
<p>Get Grammatix, RR, TCB Blue Book, 10 Reals, and maybe PR's prep book. Good luck.</p>
<p>Wow, 270 points in one month... Um, read a (good) newspaper every morning. Probably take a practice test every other day and go through the test the day after... Study vocab at night... Even that might not do it, depends on how determined you are.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Leave the Matrix, enter the real world, and have the entire dictionary as well as excellent reasoning skills uploaded into your brain.</p>
<p>Oh, and try the jujitsu while you're at it.</p>
<p>Assuming your 430 score isn't a complete false negative fluke, there's relatively little chance of getting a 700 next time. I don't mean to be defeatist but you're setting yourself up for a disappointment if you really believe this. Buy some prep books and work hard, but these tests are worthwhile to colleges specifically because people that get 430s can't just read a few books and get a 700. There are more important things in life than an SAT score, something the high AND low scorers on this site could learn.</p>
<p>Don't let these people discourage you--- I go to a really bad school in SD and at the beginning of this summer my SAT score (from the practice tests) was only like around 1400... Now it's 2350+++++++ --- ANYTHING is possible with hard work and self-motivation... GOod luck! It's all self-control!</p>
<p>Reading magazines and newspapers really help?</p>
<p>If you practice active reading, it can help.</p>
<p>The trouble I have on CR is "getting" the passages. What I mean is that whenever I understand the passage, I usually get all/almost all the questions about the passages right but if I don't comprend the passages I miss questions left and right. Anybody else have this problem and any advice in overcoming it?</p>
<p>Retribution:</p>
<p>You and I seem to be in the same situation. I've been told that if I just skim through the passage (the long ones) only for the purpose of getting the idea down, then the questions should come fairly quickly. With this, I'll read the first sentence of each paragraph and read the very last sentence. This works very well for some of the passages, but for others unfortunately, it is not very effective. I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but I think if I come to a passage that may be more difficult to understand through only skimming it, I'll just read over the entire passage as thoroughly but quickly as possible. Sorry, this is all I have to offer at the moment. How do you tackle the short passages? I'm having trouble determining the "tone" of the passage and it's difficult to answer some of the inferring questions. Do you recommend anything?</p>
<p>For the shorter passages, I usually read the whole thing. Afterwards, I look at the questions and refer back and forth between the passage and the questions to determine the best answer.</p>
<p>so how does reading TIME, New Yorker, Discover magazines help?
should i simply read it?
or should i read it really thoroughly, finding vocabs from dictionary, and reading the magazines over and over till i get the meaning?
or should i just skim?
i dont know how...</p>
<p>o yeah on the college board blue book test, my highest was -10, which is about 660.
i'm wondering how i cant raise my CR score to 700+ till the october test...
my main problem is the long passages, the passages with 12 questions and the long double passages..
when i dont understand the passages, i miss a lot
please give me some advice</p>
<p>Personally, I think doing practice problems help a lot more, but I have even subscribed to Newsweek... I don't know what to do with them...</p>
<p>I think reading those types of literature will help you with your vocab, but it will also build on your reading skills. When you expose yourself to harder reading material, where you're required to concentrate a lot on what's written, then you can apply those same skills in your reading section. For example, you could identify the main idea, connect ideas, and comprehend the article/passages quickly and efficiently. That's just my two cents, but I could be wrong. :)</p>
<p>P.S.- Are there certain words that I'm supposed to focus on to find the "tone" or inference for some of the short passages/questions?</p>
<p>Newsweek magazines keep piling up. I'm behind three weeks worth of magazines! Anyway, I've treated reading those magazines casually. Should I actually anaylze what specific articles are about?</p>
<p>Short Paragraphs: Usually the tone/main idea can be determined from the first/last sentence of the passage, but if not, then the tone can be found as a similar restatement of what had already been stated in the middle of the passage.</p>