how much can I improve a 600 reading by in 5 months?

Test Preparation
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<p>how much can I improve a 600 reading by in 5 months?</p>

<p>^^</p>

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<p>What was your breakdown? Your sentence completion/passage-based questions stats.
If all you’re missing is sentence completion, you can improve a lot if you study your vocab.
If all you’re missing is passage-based questions, you can improve a lot in a week if you learn proper strategies.
If you’re missing both… Well I’d focus on vocab a lot and then worry about the passages later.</p>

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<p>AS MUCH AS YOU WANT IT TO!</p>

<p>^^ i mean, seriously, if you concentrate hard on studying and correcting your errors, then you should easily manage a score in the 700s, and maybe if everything goes perfectly, the elusive 800 can also be yours.</p>

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<p>Sorry to take over the topic. Can you guys estimate me too? Critical reading seems to be my bane n_n but I have the entire summer to study</p>

<p>TOTAL QUESTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS INCORRECT ANSWERS OMITTED ANSWERS
CRITICAL READING<br>
SENTENCE COMPLETION 19 13 6 0
PASSAGE-BASED READING 48 34 14 0
TOTAL 67 47 20 0</p>

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<p>So you need help on both basically… I would just mainly start with vocab now (Hit Parade, Direct Hits, RR), and then a month or so before the SAT (October I’m assuming), learn some reading strategies.</p>

<p>Luckily for me, my breakdown was like
Sentence Completion 10/19 (Barely 50%)
Passage-Based 42/48</p>

<p>And I got a 620 on my March one. On May I think I got ~15/19 and ~44/48</p>

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<p>significa, definitely work on your vocabulary by going through sat flashcards and vocab lists. an hour a day of vocab should easily get you a 19/19 on the vocab/sentence completion section, but that’s only if you’re actually studying for the hour, and not just skimming as many words as possible. as for the actual reading comprehension questions, just keep taking practice tests.</p>

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<p>Any specific book recommendations for voc/reading comprehension? I pretty much cleared my blue book already, can’t really redo them without knowing half the answers (Hopefully the new edition will come out soon)</p>

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<p>Hmm, for a sec I thought you wanted to improve your reading by 600 points.</p>

<p>Either way, start reading nonstop. Read especially boring stuff, and try to get the gist of them quickly.</p>

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<p>I changed from a 570/'580 (I cant remember now) to a 680 in about 2 months. It just takes practice.</p>

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<p>A kid on here posted a thread offering advice on how to go about doing that. He said he didn’t try to memorize lists of vocab words but instead, for a month, wrote down all vocab words he confronted day-to-day that he didn’t know.</p>