<p>The curve is pretty mean and I don't have a confident answer for half of the writing questions so I end up with a score of 550-590. I have taken about 6-8 Writing tests now and I've been trying to go over my mistakes but only with minor improvement. Is there any writing workbook that specifically covers the type of grammatical errors that come up on the SAT. I'm trying to raise this score to at least a 750 (without essay) meaning 1-2 wrong at the most. What can I use to master my grammar skills for the SAT?</p>
<p>I’ll be releasing a guide in the somewhat-near future that offers a rigorous treatment of the Writing section.</p>
<p>That’s cool I will be sure to check it out. But for now are there any really good workbooks out there that cover SAT writing specifically?</p>
<p>silverturtle;
Iam really anxious to check your guide. Please release it as soon as possible</p>
<p>I’m not sure about that, but any SAT book covers the writing principles. Allow me to tell you that getting a 700+ on writing is the easiest out of all 3 sections. There are only a handful of rules that keep popping up. To beat them, do the following:
Get the Blue Book. Review the writing section in the book. Review the error types that come up. Practice the writing sections from the tests. Review your mistakes and see why they’re wrong - MEMORIZE why they’re wrong so that if something similar comes up you can spot why it’s wrong. Also, you HAVE to know the sentence structure. For example, when you see this: “Although snowing furiously, the children…”, you should DIRECTLY notice that this is an error because children cannot snow, and the sentence implies that the children were “snowing”, and not “it was snowing” as it should be.
Use the Barron’s writing guide as well, it’s helpful.
P.S.: Errors in parallelism always pop up. Always. Know those. Errors in subject verb agreement, etc. There’s only a handful that keeps getting repeated - and the occasional hard question that you have to do by ear (because it may have different rules than the usual ones) so you might miss those unless you read a lot and listen to fluent English regularly.
By the way, if silverturtle says that his writing guide will be comprehensive, I’d take his word for it. Looks like he might be the only prep you need for the rules. But get the Blue Book anyway, you’ll need that in all cases for prepping for the SAT.</p>
<p>I got a 710 on writing with an 8 essay, and I read through ALL of Barron’s writing sections in the book I have. For me, Barrons was best.</p>