<p>I am almost getting headache because of Writing sections, and I practiced a lot and still my score doesn't improve.. it's still 710.. Usually, I miss -4 or -5 on each test. So, what should I do to get everything right on the writing sections? Please help me!</p>
<p>Writing’s the easiest section to improve to perfect imo (reading being the hardest). I would hope that you’re only practicing on writing questions written by the collegeboard. I think the best way to improve writing is to research all of the rules that collegeboard wrote on that table. Then, repeatedly do sections and everyone you see a rule that you didn’t understand, write it down. Keep repeating that until youve got everything. You should evetnually be able to develop a feel for why the test writer is asking certain questions. Essays a different story …</p>
<p>I tell everyone on here to read Elements of Style for writing. It has nothing to do with the SAT at all but is an awesome book for English grammar in general. It’s probably the main reason I got an 800 on writing; I didn’t do anything to study for it besides reading that. </p>
<p>Beyond that, Erica Meltzer has some really helpful stuff for CR so I can only imagine that her writing stuff is just as helpful. </p>
<p>Another thing that helped me was to not focus on all these detailed rules and parts of speech and all this stuff. I just used simple tricks to help me. For example, if there’s a question asking you whether it should be “blank and me” or “blank and I” you can substitute in us or we and see which one makes sense, assuming you’re good enough at English, which I’m assuming you are if you’re scoring 710. Us = Me and We = I. If you have trouble remembering that, me rhymes with we - WRONG, me = us and I = we. That might have been confusing. </p>
<p>Anyway, just other miscellaneous tricks like that that help me find the right answer without all this technical stuff will work wonders.</p>
<p>Elements of style. That book goes a little beyond the scope of the SAT. It is useful f there was a rule you didn’t understand and need to look it up and really want to learn about it.</p>
<p>Just to add to my previous post, it’s really important to just understand that the collegeboard only tests certain things, and if you see something that you are uncertain about be wrong an it goes beyond that scope, it’s probably right the way it is. I know it’s hard to explain, but that’s some advice that helped me a lot.</p>
<p>^It is true that it goes beyond the scope of the SAT. It is concise and a quick read though. And I attribute my 800 to it.</p>
<p>I like Barron’s writing workbook. The MC explanation is great and the practice tests aren’t half bad. For the essay, find the thread " How to write a 12 essay in just 10 days"</p>
<p>On all the ones where a word is underlined, read the sentence twice if you first find it to be no error. Make sure you check every word carefully, because sometimes your brain can miss something.</p>
<p>Read silverturtle’s guide (I didn’t memorize the past particples but I did make note of the ones that I saw on questions). And do as many problems as possible - Blue Book and QAS ones are obviously the best. After a while, all of the problems will look the same and you can nail them easily… be sure to look/review at the ones you don’t understand.</p>
<p>i appreciate your help, guys 
but i still need more advice…</p>
<p>I got an 800 on writing. Pretty much, just read the SparkNotes 7 Deadly Errors. And learn basic rules about stuff like semicolon use. A lot of it you can do intuitively and with practice.</p>