HELP! Need quick SAT I tips! Taking test tomorrow...

EliKresses
Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:48:42 +0000

I’m kind of in the same boat as you, though my GPA’s a 3.43 and my SAT is a 1900 (750 CR, 520 M, 630 W). I’ve had marching band practice like every day… Not time to do my homework, much less study for the SAT. I can’t help you much with math, obviously, but I can help with CR and W (which is deceivingly low… My essay sucked because I write way too much I only got an introductory paragraph, which took over a page, I did okay on the rest of W).

My CR strategy is to skip reading the passages… It gives you a line number, so you go to the line number, read what you need to, then answer the question. Do this until one of the questions forces you to read the passage anyway. I’m sure you’re saying “But why? I have to read it eventually anyway…” well, the SAT’s tricky, this method makes it less tricky. Also, I don’t know how high you’re scoring, but at the level I’m scoring it’s unwise to leave anything blank… I missed 4 questions, if I remember correctly, and if I’d omitted 4 I might have done 20 points better, but if I’d missed 3 and omitted one, I would’ve had the same score, I think… I did the math, it was a long time ago, though. So my point is that once you’re doing well, omitting won’t help, you’re bound to know something that can help you, you know English, there’ll never be a question you have NO clue about, ahah.

As for W, look for passive voice – in the corrections, cross out all of the answer choices that are in passive voice or sound like they were written by a child, and you generally have the answer.