<p>How possible will it be to raise a 600-650 CR score to a 750 in three months? How about six months?</p>
<p>Same question but in two months to goal of 720</p>
<p>Yeah, I think that 100 pt. improvements are possible. I'm an example. </p>
<p>500 M ---> 630. Not impressive, sure, but it's a sizable improvement.</p>
<p>CR isn't hard for me, I don't get how people have that hard a time with it. You just have to imagine that it's the most interesting thing you'll ever read, and go with your gut.</p>
<p>sweetsaz a 130 point improvement is impressive! good job! :)</p>
<p>So how should I gear my studying? (I'm scoring in the 600~650 on CR and I want to get it up to around 700~750) Study vocabulary cards, focus on passages?? I usually get most of the vocab. right (all but around 0~2 questions blank/wrong per section) It's the long passages that I get screwed on most of the time.</p>
<p>Retribution:
I'm not a stellar CR person, but I have some tips that may help.
You say you don't have enough time for the long passages... are you taking too long on the sentence completions? The sentence completions take at the most, three minutes for me. You either know the word or you don't. If you don't know the answer, leave it blank. Go on. It's not worth spending five minutes figuring out what the word "means".
Make sure you read the long passages carefully. Try underlining and circling important details. If that doesn't work, make a brief outline of what the passage is about. Write four word summaries for each paragraph, and at the end of the passage sum up with a sentence. This helped me concentrate and understand what the passage was talking about.
I am scoring between a 680-750 on the blue book. don't know what the actually score will be, but on last year's practice test, I scored about 500.</p>
<p>Just a quick point - I wouldn't put too much stock in what you get on practice tests, especially if they're not from the "Real SATs" book. I scored in the 600s on the verbal section of a practice test and then got a perfect score (literally - didn't miss a single question) on the real thing.</p>
<p>I will add that the day before the test I stayed home from school and memorized Barron's entire 3500 word list. But that was just for the analogies, which you don't have to worry about.</p>
<p>dang...i guess practicing DOES help...i went from 550 to 670...hopefully higher if that's at all possible...</p>
<p>I have a month as well. A month because that's usually how long it takes for school to start piling the homework.</p>
<p>So what I've done today was collected all the data I have from books and put them on note cards. Tomorrow, I will do the same for writing and CR. Then the next day, I will do 1 section of each subject. Everyday. When school starts I'll do 1 section of math one day and 1 section of Wr/CR the next day. </p>
<p>I will also do some vocabulary drills. Using workbooks. The kind with sentence completion and synonynms and stuff.</p>
<p>I will tell you have my success/failure.</p>
<p>Starting point: 600M, 630CR, 700Wr</p>
<p>I've written about how I've gotten 800s in Writing. Its true. That 700 is from longer ago. I just want to keep this 800 streak constant! Sometimes I don't make the 800 mark! Stupid mistakes! >_<</p>
<p>same here burnsk8er, i have also about one month till my real sat's and even on the first day of school today, the work has started piling in. right now i don't have so much to do, so i am going to try to take as many practice tests on days like this. i am trying to increase from 650 math and reading to 700-750. i hope this practice pays off. for vocabulary, i have been looking over rr vocab words and from practice tests just making a list of words i don't know the meanings of because i am limited on time till sat's. i hope you reach your goals and score well!! :)</p>
<p>bananainpyjamas, wow good job!</p>
<p>I'm a horrible SATer... When I took my PSAT i got a 500 on each.
Here's what I did:
During Spring break I decided to get serious about SAT. So, I devoted about 9 hours of my life studying SAT's. (2 hours for each. 1 Complete Practice Test) Heh, don't say anything about having a personal life because that left me with 3 hours of break time (plenty of time to do anything).</p>
<p>Now, here's what I particularly did for CR:
I bought the blue book. I read as many Newsweek/Time articles as I could and as I was reading I was visualizing what's happening in the article and if it was an editorial I was trying to figure out the tone. While I was reading, I also kept asking questions like "What is he trying to tell me? what is his point?" and kept answering my questions while I was reading and said in my mind things like "oh ok so this and this happens and he's saying that's bad." Afterwards, my test score rose from a 500 to a 680 average score and I scored a 640 on the CR in SAT (heh not good so i'm going for it again).</p>
<p>For vocabulary: I did not study any vocabulary at ALL. I actually learned vocabulary from TIMES artices. On the SAT's I only missed 3 Vocabulary questions (2 5's and a 3).</p>
<p>Conclusion: Reading articles is the best overall investment for the CR section.</p>