<p>I got 510 in may, now im about to take it again in October.
I took kaplans and brought like 5 books and reviewed.
i just cant get a lot of the questions right. Like i get confused.
i seemed to run out of time to finish everytime.
How can i do in 3 weeks to increase my score to 550?
And i think part of the problem is my native language is not english. and i do read a lot of books, i read many books or i used too. like stephen king series.</p>
<p>should i keep on memorizing vocabs or keep doing problems?
help</p>
<p>Hold everything!</p>
<p>First, you have to understand the passage.
Start by reading random pages in reports. </p>
<p>Then ask yourself the questions that the SAT would ask.</p>
<p>Practicing the wrong way won’t many anything better.</p>
<p>Can’t get a lot of the questions right? Well, I hope you realize just how much of the critical reading section you actually have to DO to get a 550.</p>
<p>On last May’s SAT, you only needed to answer 37 questions to earn a 550 score. That’s 30 questions left blank!!!</p>
<p>That’s not to say that you should purposely skip 30 questions when you take the test. It’s just to remind you that you don’t have to even worry about doing all the questions (unless your target score is near 800). It’s mathematically possible to score 550 while only completing 55% of all the questions!!! In the real world 55% is a big fat F. But on the SAT it’s a decent score.</p>
<p>About your running out of time, it’s because you’re allowing yourself to get stuck, whether during the reading of the passage, or on a hard question. Every single question is worth the same point. It’s not worth it to get stuck on a question. Keep it moving, always - even if you can’t understand the passage you’re reading, don’t try to re-read it until you ‘get’ it. Just try to get at least a faint whiff of the main idea.</p>
<p>Now about answering the questions, definitely keep things moving SKIP AROUND - don’t go in the order they give you! Sometimes the hardest ones are at the beginning. Every other section of the SAT is arranged from easy to hard. NOT critical reading. That means it’s up to you to figure out which ones are hard. It’s not hard to do - soon as you read a question and are like ***, just move on, don’t sweat it, come back to it later. There’s easy questions in every passage, ALWAYS start with those.</p>
<p>Once you’ve answered a couple easy ones, you’ll probably start feeling a little better about the passage. Remember, to hit your target score you only really need to get the easy and medium q’s right, so don’t sweat the rest. And remember keep things moving always, DO NOT ever get stuck on a question until you’ve tried them all.</p>
<p>Let us know if this helps.</p>
<p>yeah i discussed this with my kaplan teacher too.
like i actually did 65 questions on the May SAT, lol, and got like 30 wrong and 30 right, so it hurt me a lot.
I started to get worried when i ran out of time and guessed a lot at end of each section. I just have this feeling that i might guess right and receive a point, i am always too greedy to give up a question. Yeah i guess i should try to skip the ones i cant figure out.
i mean my target score is highest 600, lowest 550. I dont really aim for like 800. Hopefully my math score will help me look better on application.
Well thanks guys, the first one who answered kinda cleared me up a lot, lol, cause if i skip the hard ones i will get easy and medium right and reach my goal.</p>
<p>Word of advice: If you can’t eliminate more than 2 answer choices, just skip. Answering incorrectly hurts you much more than skipping the question. </p>
<p>At my PR course, they teach us that if we have a specific goal in mind we have to answer x amount of questions and y amount of them correctly in order to get that score.</p>