mvp1993

Hi everyone,

I am a junior. I hope to attend a top college (why else would I be on this website), and am working on building my resume. I feel like I'm pretty well-rounded (grades, ECs, sports, etc.), but the one thing missing is that dreaded SAT/ACT score. I feel like once I get that, I'll be able to relax a little bit.

Anyway, I'm taking the PSAT this Saturday. I have been working with a tutor, and so far have been consistently scoring 750+ in M, 700+ in W...but keep hovering around the low-mid 600s in CR. It really frustrates me because that's the one I work the hardest on, and just don't see any progression. I'm usually okay for the sentence completion and short passages, but once I get to those long passages, it all goes downhill from there. I feel as if I just don't understand what I'm reading and keep reading the same lines over and over again; as if the answer is staring right at me and I just can't see it. Any tips? Also, I'm worried that even though I can do well at home, I might freeze up on test day (including PSAT) and just bomb the whole thing. Any tips?

ken145

A 620 is higher than average, and is a perfectly respectable score, especially for a slow reader. I would recommend studying vocab, and reading a lot of different things and trying to analyse for meaning and tone. Practice makes perfect!

And why are you limited to six practice tests? There's tons of questions out there to practice your vocab skills, like the question of the day, at The Official SAT Question of the Day

You can also find another whole practice test online at Free SAT Practice Test - Prepare for the SAT

There's also a ton of other practice online, you just have to look for it!

Best regards

Marie96

^^^Get outta here with that^^^

emberjed

Why? 10char

Marie96

Oh, nevermind. Whoever it was above my original post removed their's now. It was like a link for some foreign website.