Hi!
Does anyone has suggestions on hard books to improve SAT CR?
Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility too IMO. Jane Austen uses a lot of flowery words that I think are pretty common on SAT WR.
The Picture of Dorian Gray has a lot of flowery language too.
That’s all I can think of right now.
Thanks!
If you want to challenge and extend your ability, try reading Henry James, Joseph Conrad, or any other of the Victorian and Edwardian era authors. They used much more complex sentence structures and more formal diction than writers use today. In addition, try reading the articles from magazines like The Economist, Smithsonian and National Geographic. They will not only challenge your reading skill, but also provide examples and ideas for your essay extending beyond Hitler, Gatsby and Bill Gates. Bear in mind, though, that the important thing is not so much what you read as how you read. If you make no effort to look up unfamiliar words or notice unfamiliar uses of what you thought were familiar words, if you make no effort to visualize the descriptions of setting or character actions, if you make no effort to identify the main thought in a long and complicated sentence structure, ----in other words, if you simply spend time being bored out of your mind while printed words flow past your eyes in front of your head, then you aren’t reading and you will get nothing from the experience.
Do you know how the new SAT CR will compare to the current one? Will it be similar to the ACT? How should I prepare?
@Argentina2017 You can look up the new formatting on the College Board website (which you may have already done). To be totally honest, it’s a new test, so I would think that people may be going in a little blind. But it probably didn’t change too much from the original SAT, so following the studying tips for the current SAT will probably benefit you as well.
OK, thanks.