<p>I got a 1620-
CR: 510 W: 560 M: 570
I want to improve this to at least a possible 2200. I’m a junior and taking the SAT again in Oct therefore had 4 months prep. & no school as it will be summer vacation.</p>
<p>Any advice/help?</p>
<p>An almost 600 point improvement is going to require a truly prodigious amount of work, but if you’re up for it then you should start trying to isolate your weaknesses right away so that you’re concentrating your prep time on the places where you need the most improvement. </p>
<p>Analyze your score report from your last test, and take another test or two from the Blue Book. Then spend A LOT of time analyzing the results and looking for patterns in your mistakes. Say you notice that you’re struggling with special right triangles; that’s one great area to spend some real time drilling and practicing. Say you recognize a weakness in your vocabulary, or that you consistently miss pronoun agreement writing questions. One by one, you need to turn these weaknesses into strengths.</p>
<p>The people on this forum are quick to answer questions and provide help, but you need to ask specific questions to get answers that will really serve you well. So identify your weaknesses first, and then come back here looking for more specific guidance.</p>
<p>Also- which book would be most effective to use?
Barrons, Collegeboard, PR, Grubers?</p>
<p>College Board is the best book by far, because it’s got real tests.</p>
<p>What are some books that help with sat vocab, I meen it actually improves your score </p>
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<p>Many folks on CC recommend Direct Hits, and I think those are pretty good books, but I caution against going too crazy with vocabulary. At some point, you run into diminishing returns, and you still won’t get the hardest sentence completion questions without good comprehension skills. For my full thoughts on this: [PWN</a> the SAT: A strong vocabulary is necessary, but not sufficient, for a high CR score.](<a href=“http://blog.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/05/strong-vocabulary-is-necessary-but-not.html]PWN”>http://blog.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/05/strong-vocabulary-is-necessary-but-not.html)</p>
<p>When you say practice do you mean take whole, full-length tests? Or just test on individual sections that you’re weak on? Which is more beneficial?</p>
<p>@sunshine02: it’s really a combination of both. It’s important to take a full-length test or two, but if that’s all you do you’re probably spending too much time on concepts that you’ve already got down cold. Use the full tests to identify your weaknesses, then do shorter drills to shore up those weaknesses.</p>