<p>people who have taken the Writing part of the SATs and got a REALLY good score, can you tell me how or what you used in order for you to do really good?</p>
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<p>I'd just do a lot of practice, it gets repetitive after a while and the tricks become easy to catch.</p>
<p>760, no practice - just run the sentence through your head and ponder anything that seems ambiguous</p>
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<li> Listen and read proper English since you were born. TV also helps too. But this is probably more helpful, just do the practice tests from CB and review the ones you got wrong. The error types definitely get repetitive.</li>
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<p>always read it aloud and hmm yes go over thos you got wrong. theres only like less than 20 different types of error</p>
<p>800 - Just do as many practice tests as you can and you'll pick up on it. Even SAT II writing multiple choice can be useful.</p>
<p>Eh, I got a 740, but this might help anyways. Always analyze a sentence. There are the easy ones you can pick off right away, but if you're not sure of something, make sure you know where the subject and object are, and check tense, number, etc. In my experience high schools don't believe in teaching grammar, so you might want to concentrate on grammar review. </p>
<p>Generally, the more you read proper English, the more fine-tuned your ear is. I think reading proliferately over a long period of time is probably the best help, but if you haven't been, there's not as much you can do about it in the short term.</p>
<p>I dont know any rules in the grammar thing execept the Subject Verb agreement and Double Negatives becaue those are easy... I got the SAT II Barrons writing and i was wondering if those rules are useful on the test. I got a 540 last time because i didnt know anything and i thought writing was all common sense, but i guess not.</p>
<p>i borrowed a grammar book from my library and just read it</p>
<p>I went through the Official Study Guide and categorized each error: dangling modifier, implied pronoun, subject verb agreement, etc. I then sorted and looked at the most prominent errors. I used my mom's college-level grammar book (Scott Foresman) to relearn the concepts (as well as their names - I had no idea what a dangling modifier was at the time). You'll find that the same errors appear over and over and there are about 20 things you'll need to study.</p>
<p>I took the June test and scored perfect in the multiple choice part of the writing section. My essay was only a 10 (I didn't finish), so my overall score was 790.</p>
<p>Or you can take a prep class, as they've already done this work for you.</p>
<p>I scored a 760, 12 on essay and 72 on multiple choice. I think learning a foreign language really helps one to understand the structure and mechanics of language, especially for spotting errors and rewriting sentences. I will be starting IB2 (senior year) Higher Level Spanish B, and I have truly embraced the language as a cognitive, academic, and conversational tool. Many students don't realize the full potential of learning a second language, but most of the concepts remain the same when transferring to the english language. Other than learning spanish, I did not use any study guides or books. For the essay, I simply wrote how I traditionally write (although I immensely thank IB for teaching me the faculty of writing well), and included lots of examples and "critical thought" so to speak. A lot of kids will likely try to impress the reader on the essay section with bombastic words which are in reality above their level, but if you just approach it as you would for any essay, you will ironically strike the reader as a level-headed, capable writer. The magic of the essay lies in what you say, not in how many words you say it or even the structure in which the essay is formed.</p>
<p>770 - Grammatix and Elements of Style</p>
<p>800 - No prep, but I'm sure that some old SAT II Writing tests might help. I got a 750 on those. Also, lengthy essay.</p>
<p>I scored an 800, with 80/80 on the multiple choice subscore (10 on the essay). I didn't really study for the test, but my experience suggests that SpartyOn's advice is perfect. </p>
<p>The writing SAT tests a very limited number of writing errors, so reading about trivial issues that bother English majors but no one else ("lay" vs. "lie", etc.) isn't very helpful. Instead, be sure that you can place every multiple choice question into a "category". Once you are familiar with the basic rules, and have practiced applying them enough that it becomes intuitive, you're set.</p>
<p>Yes, the errors are limited to certian thing that the SAT tests on. In Grammatix, there is a table with all of the things they test on, I found that very helpful.</p>
<p>i got a 550 on old writing a 680 on new writing.</p>
<p>no prep or anything. but, i did write a longer essay and did tremendously better.</p>