<p>For me, CR, simply because I suck at it. I’m going to study extensively over the summer. My friend did so the summer before sophomore, took the October SAT, and received an 800 in Math and CR. She was incredibly dedicated, and I absolutely admire that about her.</p>
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<p>Like I’ve posted before, there’s actually a much quicker shortcut, and you can even skip the whole ‘studying over the summer’ part, lol. For me, once I discovered a new strategy of attacking the CR passages, my score went up significantly, and now I rarely miss a single question on Blue Book practice tests. PM’ing you now! :)</p>
<p>CR is all about “getting it”. Quite honestly, it really sucks if you never read a book in your life for pleasure and are forced to answer tough questions about passages that you don’t care about.</p>
<p>Amendment to my previous answer to the thread title’s question: a combination of all three is the most impressive in my eyes. ;)</p>
<p>I believe that the Critical Reading is the most arbitrary, because testing vocabulary is simply ridiculously biased towards privileged students. In comparison, the Math section I believe is the most fair. None of them are any more impressive than others, however I believe that if I had to choose I would pick Writing.</p>
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<p>Do you have any evidence to support this claim? The Direct Hits vocabulary books have been perennial favorites here on CC, and they can be purchased at very affordable prices.</p>
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Something as simplistic as memorizing vocab should actually be less biased toward the privileged. Anyone can pick up a few vocab books & memorize but only the privileged can hire private tutors to teach math solving skills/grammar rules. Most CCers advise those looking to improve their SAT vocabulary performance to study Direct Hits, which costs $20 for both volumes, something I’m sure most of the not privileged can still afford. </p>
<p>Personally, I think that an 800 CR is most impressive.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people pick up vocab from their surroundings. So less privileged students are less likely to have parents who went to college, and thus are more likely to have grown up with parents who place less value on reading/education and have weaker vocabularies (not to be prejudicial, just that you learn a lot of vocab being in a college environment).</p>
<p>My mom has a PhD in English and a great vocab. Ever since I was a little kid both my parents have used “large” words around me. Compare that to some of my friends whose parents are immigrants, and barely even speak English. Not to brag, but I have a better vocabulary than these friends (also better command of grammar, etc.). So while you can memorize some vocab words from lists, I still think privileged students have a HUGE advantage on the vocab. As well as on most sections of the test… oh, standardized testing is such crap. I mean, studying to improve a score… on a test that’s supposed to measure intelligence? //End mini-rant.</p>
<p>And, I’m gonna say CR. March curve was freaking brutal.</p>
<p>Haha, my SAT II Lit score is actually 40 points higher than my SAT CR. Messed-up, hunh? (And both were first time… I studied for lit for 1 hr, total, and no practice tests. CR I studied much more, did practice tests, etc.)</p>
<p>my lit score was also a lot higher than my cr score (lit 730) (cr 660)</p>
<p>Fledgling PM please. Thx</p>
<p>Definitely 800W！</p>
<p>I see 800M all the time…</p>
<p>800 writing, just because i can’t write a good essay in 25 minutes. i always get nervous and my brain freezes up and then i sit there staring into space and wasting time. </p>
<p>if it weren’t for the essay section, then i’d say that math because if you get 1 wrong or skip 1, then you’ve already lost the 800. math curves are usually pretty brutal.</p>
<p>I’d say math… for me the CR reading is common sense</p>
<p>Testing vocabulary is extremely biased towards students with good vocabularies. And that is biased towards students who read a lot.</p>
<p>well, then according to your logic, testing math is extremely biased toward students with good math sills. And that is biased toward student who like math.</p>
<p>Hmmm…so responding to the original thread topic: 800 Math. Yes, I’m sure many, many people receive that score, especially compared to full scores in the other sections. However, I’ve received both 800 Cr and 800 Wr with minimal test prep…while I’ve devoted almost 100 hours to math, yet still do not (and will not–hopefully not re-taking) have an 800 Math. I was extraordinarily lucky to achieve even 770, and I’m rather thankful for it. =P</p>
<p>800 CR is most impressive ‘to me’. Since English is not my first language, I find CR the most difficult (although it may not be always the case to some others). Math 800 is a joke. WR 800… hm… I am gettign close to it. I just need to work on essay skills a little bit more.</p>
<p>definitely CR
haha i took the essay for the first time as a junior dec 4, no prep but i didnt really freak since i planned on taking it again
790 cr, but 800s on math and writing, and cr vocab is all about luck.</p>
<p>but again, i dont think any of them is exactly impressive, just i think CR is all about luck, since theres gonna be vocab no one knows, except that one kid who’ll be lucky and have seen it the day before while browsing the internet.
writing and math are actually all skill</p>
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<p>800 in critical reading is most impressive</p>