<p>Would you say that this is good improvement over the past 3 months?
The following scores on in order and are from PSATS.</p>
<p>1st: 480
2nd: 490
3rd: 550
4th: 580
5th: 550
6th: 580</p>
<p>Do you think a 700 is achievable by the time of the October test?
Vocab isn’t my problem (i usually get around 17/19 correct on sats), however, I am missing like 5-7 passage questions per section.</p>
<p>I think a 700 is achievable if you read voraciously over the summer.</p>
<p>cool. other opinions?</p>
<p>ok i dont know what type of questions you’re having, but when i studied for the passages, i would try read the passage without a time limit(xiggi’s method comes to mind) and try to understand them. Sometimes no matter how u analyze, u just don’t understand why the right answer is right, or some wrong answers are wrong. But with practice u’ll see that the right answer makes more logical sense than the wrong ones. So my suggestion is to do the passages without a time limit(or read the over and over again till u get it), then analyze every single Q, even the wrong answers. This is xiggi’s method, a way to know how the test makers think.</p>
<p>simply re-taking tests will not help. Take tests from the BB and go over every question you got wrong, as well as RIGHT (sometimes you might guess and still won’t understand WHY it’s right). The Xiggi method may work for you, or you may not like it. It is up to you to try different strategies and select the one that works for you.</p>
<p>My problem was that i over-analyzed the text. I learned to read the text’s as they were, and kept all my person-analysis out. It is necessasary not to put words in the author’s mouth. This will improve your score, as you will learn to see that your opinion/analysis is not correct. There is one correct answer, and there is proof for that answer in the text.</p>
<p>Don’t take my word for it;Just try it yourself and see if you like it.</p>
<p>I reduced from 7-10 wrong to 1-3 wrong per section like this.</p>
<p>yea, i do go over my wrong and right answers 
thank you guys for some of the tips :)</p>
<p>if I were, I’d try to do atleast 1 CR passage a day, just so I’d unconsciously assimilate. But ofcourse you should try to do more than 1 passage - do only 1 passage when you dont have enough time to do more</p>