Billy17

For those who are struggling on Writing section, get The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar.
I went from 400 to 650(constantly on practice tests). Author of the PWN the SAT highly recommends this book as you can see on his blog. Little pricey than other thousands of 10$-ish prep books, but trust me, it's worth it.

mido96

Let beat December SAT

Billy17

As we all know, BB doesn't have a detailed explanations for its answers of practice tests. But I found explanations for most of Math problems of all those 11 practice tests in BB. Here:

PWN the SAT: Blue Book Math Solution Index

Now, I need the explanations for Writing and CR questions of practice tests in BB, just like how The PWN The SAT guy did for Math ones. Can anyone find? Marie? The links you've provided in this thread were extremely helpful, btw.

Billy17

Can you give me the link? I thought they only provide explanations for their QOTDs

Marie96

@Billy,
Good job on the improvement with Writing! If you have the BB, just go to this website: Welcome to the Official SAT Study Guide Book Owner's Area You'll then be prompted to choose which one you have. After that, you'll have to confirm by filling in the blank on a question they give you. Once you complete that, you should see a page where you can enter your answers online and an area that says, "View Explanations and Sample Essays." Click on "View" on which test you would like to see explained.

Marie96

Guys, 18 more days!

Reckie

Marie your count is giving me anxiety.

Tip of the day!(ha) On the writing section, No Error is the answer aproximately 15-20% of the time; or one in every 5-6 questions.

Marie96

Guess you better start hustling up then, Reckie!

Well, I think now I'm just going to focus solely on CR and Writing.
As of now, my testing center still has "makeup info to be announced" on it. All my Nov. ticket says is Makeup too.

Reckie

That's exactly where I am too in terms of the make-up. I'm not too hung up on it anymore: I can actually feel myself improving in math.

What are you using to practice CR?

Reckie

I meant writing.

Marie96

Wow, that was pretty ironic! Haha. But good for you!

I'm using Barrons CR workbook right now.

After the Dec. test (when I'll be finish with the SAT), I'm having a bonfire with friends to burn these prep books! It'll be a bittersweet moment lol...except for the fact that I gotta start studying for the SAT II right after for the Jan. date.

Question: Practice the BB tests as a whole or section by section?

zfrosting

Taking the December SAT as well.

Just finished the 2nd practice test in the BB. Got my first 2000!

670 CR
640 Math
690 (gave myself a 10 essay) Writing

Don't know how the heck I did so well (I was aiming for a 650 in Reading) in CR! I felt like this practice test had easy passages. I sort of clicked and understood the passages more during this test. Sort of weird.. I have never felt this way/did this well on CR before. Hope this positive trend continues.
Writing was 690 as usual. Missed a 5 and omitted 1. Need to brush up on some grammar. Aiming for at least 700 on the real thing.
Math is disappointing. It's supposed to be the easiest section and I don't know how it was my worse this time around. Missed 9 and omitted 2.

Going to finish some homework then review the answers to the test. This is the first time I got 2000, and 2000 is my goal on the real thing. Want to average at least 2100 on the practice tests so I feel confident for a 2000 on the Dec. test.

I really want to be done with the SAT with one sitting. I know I, and a lot of people here, have been stressed these past couple of weeks because of the SAT December...
Good luck to everyone and yeah, let's beat this and reach our goals together this December.

Reckie

@zFrosting, I wish I could score 2000+ on practice tests! Nice man.

@Marie, don't accidentally burn the SAT2 book!!

Billy17

@Marie I'm doing section by section. Doing it as a whole would give me an anguish. LOL

Reckie

I'm in NY the makeup has been posted for the 17th. Not sure if taking it yet..