<p>5 months ago, my score was:</p>
<p>W: 400
R: 420
M: 670</p>
<p>Today, I took a diagnostic and received a score of:</p>
<p>(+290)W:690 (I automatically assume that I got an 8 on the essay)
(+50)M:730 (3 wrongs, 1 omit)
(+150)R: 550 (bunch of wrongs . . .)</p>
<p>I was neither impressed nor depressed by this score. However, I know for a fact that I can do better than this!</p>
<p>Any advice? (Especially the CR section)
Also, how many vocab should I memorize a day? (I have all the words from DH 1+2 and 300 essential words)</p>
<p>730 is a 60-point jump, not a 50-point jump. Also, 550 is a 130-point jump, not a 150-point jump.</p>
<p>In my experience, memorizing vocab doesn’t help that much because it only appears occasionally if at all. However, others seem to think otherwise, so if you’re going to memorize vocab I’d limit it to 20 or 30 a day. Make sure you review previous days’ vocab as well.</p>
<p>haha sorry… I posted this right after I had finished scoring + reviewing my SAT. . . So I was a bit tired :S I will be do 20 vocabs per day and 10 vocabs from the previous day from now on. Hope it works well!</p>
<p>I would structure it like this:
20 new ones per day (try using them in sentences)
5 from the previous day
5 from days before that
Then just briefly look over your list of previous words.</p>
<p>Try to eventually cover every word you learn at least three times.</p>