<p>Hi to all. I've already got SAT scores from my first SAT ever (26th January):
CR 570 + WRITING 640 + MATH 690 = 1900. For me it's really great score as I'd expected at best 1750-1800 from that SAT. Yesterday I bought Barron's CR and Writing workbooks as well as Barron's 2400 and Dr Chung's Math. I've learned a lot of strategies from other books so now I just want to practice from those new books. I feel that I'm really able to increase my Math score to at least 750 and CR score to 620-630 making it around 2000 Superscore. Is 1900 already a good score as I'm thinking about colleges on the East Coast (maybe NYU)? I'm definietly going to retake it on May 2013 but I'm still not sure if it would be beneficial to write some subject tests as well. I'm thinking about Math II and U.S History. Are those subject tests really so important for school in my score range or it will be a waste of time for me to prepare for them?</p>
<p>I’ll respond to the easiest question first. You need to take those two subject tests, because if you score well, they can only help you. What is your intended major? Something in the sciences, humanities, or social sciences? If science, try to get an 800 on Math II. If it is one of the others, work harder for US History, but having a very good Math II score will look good for you.
Now for the SAT. You are a bit on the lower side for NYU at least, so try to get it in the 2000s, or even 2100 would be better. Use this [SAT</a> Writing Questions - SAT Writing Questions.pdf - Minus](<a href=“http://minus.com/l4IZR1cu9DYOJ]SAT”>http://minus.com/l4IZR1cu9DYOJ)
It’s a list of a bunch of official College Board SAT questions of the day. All the answers are in the pdf. Don’t be scared by the Chinese, all you need for studying is in English
If you need to improve on vocab questions (you may or may not, since your score is already pretty high), you may want to pick up Direct hits volumes 1 and 2. The books have a total of around 400 ESSENTIAL words.
Look at this thread on how to approach the CR section. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1441408-how-do-you-approach-cr-dual-passage.html#post15284013[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1441408-how-do-you-approach-cr-dual-passage.html#post15284013</a>
For reading comprehension, what I did, instead of reading long novels like Great Expectations, I picked up a copy of the Wall Street Journal or New York Times and read an article before going to bed. You don’t have to pick a boring one, just pick an article that you are interested in. While reading, constantly question the author: Why did he put this useless information in this paragraph? It must not be useless, why did he mean by this sentence!? Basically talk to yourself. But learning how to approach the passages is more important. Good luck!</p>