<p>What are your strategies for the Writing section (not the essay)? I am finding that most of my errors come from the Writing section... there are so many grammar rules to understand and be rock solid that I am completely unsure where to start. </p>
<p>What are your methods and strategies for Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences and Paragraphs section? </p>
<p>Btw, I am studying for the PSATs and I already have the Blue Book (2004 Edition for March 2005 Test) (I just went through the writing section chapter, and finished the practice test (chapter 13) in the end, I got 2 wrong in the Identifying Sentence Errors out of 9 (#1 and #4) and I got 2 wrong in Improving Sentences out of 9 (#11 and #16) and I got one wrong in Improving Paragraphs out of 6 (#24).</p>
<p>I am about to start exploring some more problems in the back practice tests, but I'd really appreciate some tips, strategies, etc to take down this section. </p>
<p>you have to know the rules really well. you can do that by first doing questions and seeing which ones you got wrong the most; that will tell you the rule(s) you need to focus on. Once you know what you need to study..go to whatever books you have and review them thoroughly. The n do practice questions on them. Keep doing that till you have mastered them all.
Pretty soon your eyes will be able to see the error without even finishing reading the sentence. The errors never change and they get really easy to spot after a while.</p>
<p>well, you have to know which error is in the question if you want to correct it. It's not hard to spot. Sometimes just reading the sentence as a whole and getting a feel of what it's trying to say can get you the answer right away. Many times I don't really know what is wrong with the sentence but wehn I read it it sounds wrong..90% of the time..the answer I picked was the correct one.</p>