<p>hi everyone im new here and i must say this is good! I’m a Nigerian who wrote SAT’s january had CR 610 M 610 W 540. Want to really raise my score. i read about how well a lot of you did getting 800’s and i find myself wondering if it’s the same exam. Nyways i’ll be writing october and i have to ace it this time. please where can i get solid tips and guidelines. You smarties what did u do to get such a mind-blowing score. Help a friend with some details. Please all suggestions are welcome so long as its productive.</p>
<p>Well, I will say that the test is designed for native English speakers, but that’s not to say you can’t still get a good score. </p>
<p>I’ll give you some tips from my experience.</p>
<p>Math (I got 670)
Really, the only way to increase this is by constant practice. Not only solve the practice problems, but understand what you did wrong on the incorrect ones. Then resolve the problem with that new understanding.</p>
<p>Reading (730)
Basically, before you even read the passages, read the questions that ask you to refer to specific lines. Go to the passage, underline them, and then when you do start reading and get to that point, answer that question right then and there. As for vocabulary, just read a lot of books I guess.</p>
<p>Writing (800)
This just comes with practice and experience with the English language. I’d recommend buying a grammar review book of some sort and going over the rules.</p>
<p>I know that was short but hopefully I helped a bit!</p>
<p>thanks for your post. However, isnt there some kind of formula you guys learn over there in the US? As for the mathematics i dont really see it as a challenge. The issue is how unpredictable it is. So my question is this; is there some formula to enable one work accurately and speedily through it? You time is one really important factor in the exams. Here in Nigeria, forget what yoou see on cnn, we speak flawless English. As a matter of fact English is the first and only language im proficient at. However, we both CR requires more than just being able to speak ‘queens’ English. So please even if its a post here on CC you can recommend. By the way the tip you mentioned on the CR made a lot of sense and I intend applying them. Thanx</p>
<p>thanks for your post. However, isnt there some kind of formula you guys learn over there in the US? As for the mathematics i dont really see it as a challenge. The issue is how unpredictable it is. So my question is this; is there some formula to enable one work accurately and speedily through it? You time is one really important factor in the exams. Here in Nigeria, forget what yoou see on cnn, we speak flawless English. As a matter of fact English is the first and only language im proficient at. However, we both CR requires more than just being able to speak ‘queens’ English. So please even if its a post here on CC you can recommend. By the way the tip you mentioned on the CR made a lot of sense and I intend applying them. Thanx</p>
<p>Hey its the girl who sent you a private message.</p>
<p>I have some tips that worked for me.
PRACTICE is everything. Practice and solve all the practice tests you can find. I solved every single practice test in every prep book out there: blue book, barrons, kaplan, grupers, princeton review, mcgraw hill and real tests from the past. </p>
<p>As for reading, practice really is the most important thing to do. Usually passages that are hard to understand are accompanied by really easy, straightforward and fact based questions. I suggest that for science passages, you don’t read the whole thing, but refer to line references in specific questions. Narrative passages, you can read bit by bit but you usually have to read the WHOLE passage because questions usually ask you to find inferences, tones, general ideas that relate to the passage as a whole. You can’t answer these more difficult ones by just reading a few lines. </p>
<p>Math: SAT Math questions always have the same question types. Again, practice is all that matters. You eventually will get to a point where you sort of “memorize” math question types, and relate the questions to questions you solved in the past, only with different number and slight differences in what the question is REALLY asking.</p>
<p>Writing: Personally, Grubers Writing Workbook was the best. It teaches you all the grammar rules you need to know for SAT writing. I got -3 wrong, but only one wrong in sections where you have to find grammatical mistakes and 2 wrong in improving paragraphs part (which I usually do very well on). </p>
<p>Essay: OKAY. ESSAY IS HONESTLY THE EASIEST SECTION IF YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE SMART. I got a 12 on both my essays with this format.</p>
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<li>Introductory Paragraph: REWORD/ RESTATE (I seriously copied the question and turned it into a statement) the question and state your position: yes or no.</li>
</ol>
<p>For example, if the question is,…“Are people more likely to success when the listen to what others say?”, I literally COPIED the question.</p>
<p>HERES THE SECRET. My SAT Writing teacher graduated from UCLA where they MADE SAT Writing. He told me that graders who read essays are substitutes. Not real teachers. Not people who are really any smarter than us. Just teachers who want to read and get through essays fast to make money. YOU DONT WANT TO CONFUSE THEM BY MAKING SENTENCES TOO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. Unless you’re reallllly good at writing and write difficult sentences without grammatical mistakes and obscurity, youre better off writing simple sentences with a little bit of SAT vocab like “ubiquitous” “formidable” etc here and there. SAT Essay graders LOVE it when kids make their lives easier. They like essays that are straightforward.</p>
<p>SO: Make clear what your idea is…back to the ex I gave you, …"People are more likely to succeed when they don’t/ do heed (instead of listen, bc “heed” is an SAT vocab) other’s words. Almost identical right? Then you say the reason why…like “People are more likely to…,because they are not distracted by what they have to say”. Then you give an overview of what examples youre going to talk about. Then you write your thesis again.</p>
<p>Body Paragraphs:
- Thesis
- Example
- Why example relates to the topic
- Thesis restated</p>
<p>Conclusion
- Thesis
- Summarize examples in 1~2 sentences
- Thesis.</p>
<p>WRITE YOUR THESIS A LOTTTT OF TIMES and USE SAT vocab 3~5 times…preferably in opening and concluding paragraphs because SAT Essay graders focus on these paragraphs the most. </p>
<p>Wow this was long, but I hope it helped!</p>
<p>For the essay, this technique is very helpful. I got an 11 on the essay by using the following strategy:</p>
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<p>nice post skim! can you post up any sample essays of yours, or give more examples for each paragraph? looks like a winning method and i believe it will help out tons of people</p>