<p>1900 is not bad, trust me. Practice helps a lot. There are kids at my school who can’t crack the 1400 barrier. 1900 is a good score, with room for improvement the next times you try!</p>
<p>Didn’t* not distance</p>
<p>Hopefully! And thanks! I’m trying to get into UT but my highschool is Soooooo competitive, it’s the best highschool in our district and in like top 15 in Texas, super Hard I’m like top 25% :(</p>
<p>I really disliked the critical reading passages this time… I thought I had finished and zoned out… then i flipped the page and had that awful Tribulation House passage with 5 minutes left</p>
<p>I didn’t study vocabulary at all this time around, and I didn’t run in to any words I didn’t know (at least not in the questions). The last time I took it I was in a class so I did note cards. They helped somewhat. Personally, I pick up new words in reading. It does the trick.</p>
<p>Okay so I’m just going to read a lot of books from now to the next SAT, anyone taking the new one that’s coming up?</p>
<p>did anyone get a passage about literacy</p>
<p>@haruku1001</p>
<p>The one about the Korean girl? I had that; it was experimental.</p>
<p>@Redragon123</p>
<p>no. it was a professor writing about the impact of literacy</p>
<p>Literacy, mercury, and 20 questions were experimental</p>
<p>Earlier, most people agreed “development of the writer” was the correct answer. In the beginning, she says, “My first commission was…” and the blurb does say she is now a published author. Throughout the passage, she describes how she improved her writing by adding details, tailoring to her audience, and making the letters more interesting. Also, the question asks what the passage is an account of. I don’t see how it shows an account of misunderstandings on the purpose of writing. Neither the grandma nor her granddaughter discussed why they wanted to write the letters.</p>
<p>Also, the first paragraph is a business transaction. Although she complains about it later, the question asked for her perspective from the opening paragraph only. She describes the exchange of letter writing for milk and cookies, using diction such as “fee” and other business words I can’t quite remember at the moment :)</p>
<p>The option I put for the goat question was, “he was poking fun at blah blah blah”</p>
<p>I have started tutoring this year and after the success my sons had using the Direct Hits books the last 2 years, I use them in my classes. My students have also used other books but found DH to be the most helpful. Here is a recap of yesterday’s SAT vocabulary that appeared on the test from the DH books. I compiled them from my students and other CC posts.</p>
<p>Sentence completion correct answers: diminutive, arrest (multiple meaning word, used as to stop or halt), deleterious, eschew, idyllic, prodigy, evoke and anomalous.</p>
<p>Some of the DH vocabulary words that were answers on reading passage questions: idyllic, ironic, anecdote and resolute</p>
<p>Words that were not the correct answer, but were helpful for POE (process of elimination): voracious, capricious, superfluous, enmity, beneficence, partisanship, assuage, paucity, antiquated, laud, circumvent, relinquishing, ineffable, innocuous, inscrutable, and mercurial.</p>
<p>Are there other CR words that should be included?</p>
<p>garrulous was in a passage</p>
<p>… I thought enmity was a correct option for one of them…</p>
<p>garrulous was the only word which completely just sidetracked me. But it was in a passage</p>
<p>I don’t even remember garrulous! What question was it on?</p>
<p>It was in a passage in CR I believe</p>
<p>30 hits for 500 words? Wow: 1 hit per 17 words!</p>
<p>For the SC question that had the answer “arrested…preserved” does anyone remember the other choice plausible choice? I understand that arrested is the correct answer but i’m having trouble remembering which one i actually chose.</p>
<p>more importantly (LOL jk), did anyone choose enmity for a CR question? I know when I chose it that it was the only logical choice.</p>
<p>What was the answer to do one about mercury poisoning? It was either it threatens aquatic wildlife or it threatens food supply. I put aquatic wildlife simply because that was the main focal point of the passage.</p>