First practice test complete...Now what?

<p>I’ve completed test #7 in the BB, the 1st BB test on my long journey towards the actual SAT (in case you are wondering, I chose this test because I am doing it in conjunction with a prep course). According to a conversion chart I saw online, a 61 translates to approximately a 740. Now, I did very well on my other sections (54/54 in math and 48/49 in writing) so it is apparent that my weakest area is critical reading. On this particular test, I actually did worse on the sentence completions than I did on reading comprehension, which slightly perplexes me, as I have done sentence completions before and I am normally very good at it. </p>

<p>The answer key does acknowledge that for this particular test, many of the sentence completion questions are considered hard; in fact, the difficulty of sentence completion is disproportionate to that of reading comprehension. Should I expect this on the real SAT? Or will difficulties between the two subsections vary? There were quite a few vocabulary words on this BB test that I was not very familiar with. Also, as a general rule of thumb, which is harder to prepare for - sentence completions or reading comprehension?</p>

<p>I can answer your last question. Reading comprehension hands down. You need to study grammar to do better on sentence completions. There isn’t really a direct way to study for reading comprehension. That’s why it is so many people’s “weakness” (740 isn’t exactly a weakness haha).</p>

<p>Damn I wish I could borrow your SAT brain. Particularly for CR and W.</p>

<p>Difficulty definitely varies between SC and Reading passages. I remember the March test having hard SC and easy passages, and the May test having easy SC and hard passage questions.</p>

<p>I think sentence completion difficulty varies. For example I only got 11/19 on the March SAT, but on the June I got 16/19 (Part of the reason why my CR jumped up 60 points). And I studied no vocab.</p>

<p>Hey, Monster!! May I ask how you did soo well on the reading comprehension? How did you study for it?</p>

<p>I personally think the passages are easier to get 100% on :. But thats because I suck at vocab</p>

<p>andyjo, I used to be pretty weak at RC. But I learned that it’s really about developing the right reading technique and figuring out exactly where the answer is located in the passage. My personal strategy is skimming the passage, reading the questions, going back to the passage, and reading the area specifically asked about by a question.</p>

<p>U seemed to have a problem w/ vocab, but that is very important for CR and W sections. I suggest you take a look at Princeton Review’s Hit Parade, and flashcard them all.</p>