<p>Hi, I'm currently a junior, and planning on taking the May SAT, however on my most recent practice test, from CB website, I got a 1980 (CR-650, W-640 (12 on essay), M-690). I'm aiming for a 2200+... Does anyone have tips, advice, or what I can do to help me accomplish this goal?
Thanks :-D</p>
<p>Keep practicing, that's what I'm doing. Do you have the Collegeboard Official Study Guide? Just use that it's very helpful my score has gone up by approximately 300 points. All I can say is practice and your score will get higher.</p>
<p>Writing MC is by far the easiest section to improve on. I used the Blue Book, and went from -4 in each section to -1/-0 overall in 3 weeks. Use a Grammar/Comp book if you have one to study.</p>
<p>Mook32 is right: practice.</p>
<p>Review the Xiggi guide if you haven't already. Make sure that you're actually reviewing the questions that you miss. Mook32 will probably agree with me that practice is useless if you don't go back and figure out why you got certain problems wrong: it's important to study your errors.</p>
<p>For Writing: I like to have students put the sentence correction problems on flash cards and practice them. Make sure you read the 12 steps to a 12 method and follow the steps. Also, make sure you're catching the agreement mistakes (subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement): that's usually worth a few points. </p>
<p>For Math: practice, practice, practice.</p>
<p>For Reading: learn a few high-frequency words if you haven't already, and MAKE SURE YOU'RE LOOKING BACK at the passage as you answer questions. DON'T answer questions from memory. Look for answer choices that paraphrase part of the passage.</p>
<p>Mook32 is right: practice.</p>
<p>Review the Xiggi guide if you haven't already. Make sure that you're actually reviewing the questions that you miss. Mook32 will probably agree with me that practice is nearly useless if you don't go back and figure out why you got certain problems wrong: it's important to study your errors.</p>
<p>For Writing: I like to have students put the sentence correction problems on flash cards and practice them. Make sure you read the 12 steps to a 12 method and follow the steps. Also, make sure you're catching the agreement mistakes (subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement): that's usually worth a few points. </p>
<p>For Math: practice, practice, practice.</p>
<p>For Reading: learn a few high-frequency words if you haven't already, and MAKE SURE YOU'RE LOOKING BACK at the passage as you answer questions. DON'T answer questions from memory. Look for answer choices that paraphrase part of the passage.</p>
<p>Get 2 books and keep practicing. Then you're all set. Relax the night before the exam!</p>
<p>Yes, I do agree with lotf629 always go back and check why you got a certain question wrong, it really helps especially in math.</p>
<p>For reading, read the blurb first, then just jump to the questions. Mark any 'on this line', 'this paragraph' etc. references in your passage, and write a short note beside the mark indicating what the question is, and the question number. Like, if question 17 is, 'Why does the author mention this word in this line?', just put parantheses around that line, underline the word, write '17' beside it and write 'WHY?'. Do this for all questions. Any questions that don't have a clear reference or are about the 'whole passage' or such, circle 'em.</p>
<p>Only then start reading the passage. Answer questions to marked areas as you encounter them. Then, do the circled questions. This way you only have to read the passage once, and you can only quickly skim through areas that aren't that important.</p>
<p>This approach has helped my improve my CR score a lot (apart from doing vocabulary flash cards obviously).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice guys! So far I've been following that, but unfortunately, I've still yet to break 2100 on the practice tests. What do you guys think of the SAT Barron's book (in addition to the CB book I already use)?</p>