<p>I suck most at writing. How do I raise my score in this area? (I'm using Gruber's for math and Rocket Review for Crit Reading)
Thanks</p>
<p>I’m partial to [the Sparknotes book](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411401506?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1411401506"“>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411401506?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1411401506”</a>) on the Writing Sections because it goes over each grammatical concept in a simple and really well-organized manner, but most of the big 3rd party books do a pretty good job, including [Kaplan[/url</a>] and [url=”<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375429220?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375429220"]Princeton">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375429220?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375429220"]Princeton</a> Review](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419553011?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1419553011"]Kaplan[/url”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419553011?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1419553011) for Writing.</p>
<p>The Error Identification Section basically tests your understanding of the following 10 grammatical concepts:</p>
<ol>
<li>S-V Agreement</li>
<li>Pronoun Errors</li>
<li>Faulty Parallelism</li>
<li>Illogical Comparisons</li>
<li>Adj. v. Adv.</li>
<li>Idioms</li>
<li>Wrong Word</li>
<li>Wrong Tense</li>
<li>Irregular Verbs</li>
<li>Double Negatives</li>
</ol>
<p>In addition to these ten, the Sentence Improvement Sections also test the following four concepts:</p>
<ol>
<li>Passive Voice</li>
<li>Run-ons</li>
<li>Misplaced Modifiers</li>
<li>Parallelism</li>
</ol>
<p>Often times a Sentence Improvement question will have two grammatical errors. In these cases some of the answers will fix one error, but not the other. Be sure you pick the one answer choice that fixes BOTH errors. </p>
<p>If you master these concepts, you should come out with a pretty solid SAT Writing score. If you’re struggling with any of these concepts, get the [Sparknotes</a> Guide to the SAT & PSAT](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411401506?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1411401506"]Sparknotes”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411401506?ie=UTF8&tag=sn0ca-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1411401506). As I mentioned above, it does a really good job of going over these concepts.</p>
<p>I also started going over some of these on my [url="<a href="http://satninja.com/sat-writing/how-to-ace-the-sat-writing-sections-even-if-you-suck-at-writing"]blog[/url">http://satninja.com/sat-writing/how-to-ace-the-sat-writing-sections-even-if-you-suck-at-writing"]blog[/url</a>], but haven’t followed through on finishing the grammatical concepts.</p>