<p>lol legegnd.dracula, im surprised someone is as curious as i had been XD
when i first discover this thread, i spent 5 hrs reading through all..........
LOL, wasted all the time for nothing >.<
i realize u're in serious need of help for CR.
heres what i do: read until u get where the author is going, whats he trying to argue. do not skim. then atk the questions.
grammatix doesn't work for me,but its order of atking the question is good =P</p>
<p>legend.dracula: Get better at reading newspapers and magazines and stuff. That will definitely improve your score :)</p>
<p>legend,
I'm sorry but my D did the work so I don't know what strategies Max SAT offered. And I don't even have the book at hand right now as we loaned to to a friend.</p>
<p>don't worry I will figure out what will work best for me :D
I think the best way for me is the mixture of RR and Barron: read FAST each paragraph and answer questions related to that paragraph (of course I have to get the idea of each passage) :D because I often forget what the main idea is after I read the whole thing. I think RR does a good job in pointing out the problem lies on short-term memory :D</p>
<p>oh and I have a question: after you read a question, do you read the 5 choices or read the lines the question refers to cuz sometimes I read the reference first and then come back and read and come back and ...... :-w</p>
<p>Each has his own style. Try it and see what you prefer, or get Maximum SAT and see what it says.</p>
<p>i read the question, refer to the lines, do some thinking,then jump to the answers and start eliminating =p</p>
<p>uhh just to tell you, taking the SAT as a rising sophomore is terrible... take it at the end of sophomore year when you know what you're supposed to know. For now, take the PSAT in october, get a score report, see where you messed up (as in, passages?, then focus on all the books you read throughout the year for english class)...and focus a ton in math.... and by the time June comes..your score will be up 300 to 400 points without any prep... then u have to summer to prep for the october SAT in junior year.</p>
<p>lol I took the PSAT in junior cuz my school required all students to take it. I did terribly :( with gloomy percentile</p>
<p>i am doomed in CR.....integrating a method of my own.....i think i have been spending too much time in the web......got to focus on study</p>
<p>why don't you guys try the sat free pratice test at petersons.com?</p>
<p>^ first of all, most of us here uses official cb materials.
secondly, isn't peterson's like the worst test makers? i mean they dont even follow the test format....</p>
<p>How to reach you by Email or phone?</p>
<p>sli2009,
To reach another poster, use the Private Message function. Hopefully most posters here will NOT give their email or phone number out, particularly to an unknown, first time poster.</p>
<p>has anyone summed up the Xiggi Method in one document?</p>
<p>nevermind, <a href="http://freecollegecounselor.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/the-xiggi-method.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://freecollegecounselor.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/the-xiggi-method.pdf</a></p>
<p>Is there a Xiggi method for the ACT or something equivalent?</p>
<p>for the collegeboard SAT online course, i wanna purchase it but i have no credit card. Is there any way i can pay them? i e-mailed them but they replied nonsense!!</p>
<p>preparing sat greatly deals with increasing vocubalary so start right now</p>
<p>yonjan, I'm guessing you are an int'l student. So am I. And I agree with you completely. For Non native English speakers, the test is all the more intimidating than to native speakers and you can never study too much for this test.</p>
<p>I've been browsing through the posts and what I'd like to say is that if you are looking for a single earth shattering secret to doing well on the test, there is none. The advice that people have been giving in this thread is great but its important to know that everyone has a different way of learning and its completely upto us to find the perfect way to study. </p>
<p>the advices are really useful!!</p>