<p>Hey fellow CCers. I recently starting studying SAT seriously at the beginning of this summer, starting roughly a week and half ago. At the beginning of that, I took a couple of practice PSATs I had found online. Here is the breakdown from</p>
<p>6/10/12</p>
<p>2030</p>
<p>M - 780 (1 wrong)
CR - 650
W - 600</p>
<p>6/14/12</p>
<p>2100</p>
<p>M - 790 (1 wrong)
CR - 710
W - 600</p>
<p>The CR gradually improves as you do more and more tests from what I can see and 3/4 of the questions I missed where Vocab, which I could easily improve later on. Math was always my strong suit so I had no issues there. HOWEVER, I had worked ONLY on writing the 3 days in between and it is the only score that didn’t improve. I became upset with myself. How was I going to get into all the colleges I wanted to with only a 2100? I had been studying from the Sparknotes 7 deadly errors but that didn’t seem to improve my score.</p>
<p>But then I found gold.</p>
<p>[Noun</a> Basics, SAT Grammar Bootcamp #1 - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BAdyDiLCFo&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLBF11471717353FF1]Noun”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BAdyDiLCFo&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLBF11471717353FF1)</p>
<p>This is a 30 video series of all the grammar found in the SAT explained INDEPTH. I really wanted to understand EVERY single question on the writing section and why one thing made sense and the other did not. I got myself a fresh journal and pen. Then I began to take notes on the material he was teaching.</p>
<p>The person in the video is a tutor and I enjoy having the material taught to me in an easy to consume manner.</p>
<p>It took me 3 days to get through all 30 videos and not all the material stuck with me. However I generally had a MUCH better understanding of grammar.</p>
<p>I then tackled 2 fresh SAT tests. However I only did the writing sections. The first one I completed was not good at all, a 640. Barely an improvement. I went over the problems by reading all the explanations to each question on College Board’s Blue Book Owner’s Area. I took notes again in my journal about stuff I didn’t know. The second one wasn’t much better either, 660. However I went over EACH problem and began to learn everything I needed to know.</p>
<p>Then finally today I took 2 writing tests. I scored 48/49 on BOTH of the tests. That is a 780 (no essay), which could possibly be an 800 depending on my essay score, which I hadn’t worked one. </p>
<p>I believe that it took time for the concepts I learned in the 30 videos to settle and for me to apply certain concepts correctly and begin to understand. Its honestly amazing, I went from not understanding any of the writing questions and sounding them out in my head to completely understanding the sentence structure and being able to digest the questions easily.</p>
<p>WATCH THE VIDEOS. THEY ARE AWESOME.</p>
<p>And thats my story.</p>