<p>ask him for it please. I used to live in Korea</p>
<p>it’s nothing new</p>
<p>Hmm, has he said anything about the ACT yet?</p>
<p>asian sensation, I really don’t buy that last piece of advice of always including a quote. It tends to catch attention, but it doesn’t make the essay good. A poorly-constructed essay with a quote in the first sentence will get a poor grade. A clear and concise essay with well-supported pieces of evidence without a quote in the first sentence will get a much better score. I didn’t include a quote at all and I got an 11, not because of a quote but because of the quality of my essay.</p>
<p>^ yeah of course, but i just offered that advice as a way to step up an already good essay…</p>
<p>mrprez, i’ll ask my friend, but sometimes i get the feeling he’s reluctant to give it, but i’ll nag anyway</p>
<p>Why would he be reluctant to give it? o_o</p>
<p>^I guess, it’s asian competitiveness and secrets…</p>
<p>^ my thoughts exactly. i’m going to ask again anyway because it would be helpful to know</p>
<p>If I recall correctly the site that OP is talking about is one of the Daum cafes.
But again, lots of other sites have admission postings section so idk.</p>
<p>F*** it… </p>
<p>I’m gonna do it…I’ll cya guys in October with my 24</p>
<p>^ ???
(10chars)</p>
<p>proof or ur friend is lying lool</p>
<p>er any more advice? The “1 test a day” thing seems crazy. There are probably 20 good tests out there… are you saying that you can go from 380->770 in 20 days?</p>
<p>^ The plan is to take as many consecutive tests as possible, then start again from test 1. After many tests, the questions and answers in test 1 won’t seem familiar.</p>
<p>may i ask whats 10 chars? lol</p>
<p>1 test/day means you spend 4 hours taking the test and God knows how many hours reviewing by making up your own little explanations. That’s like 12 hours a day. Forget preparing, taking and reviewing the tests alone sucks away half your day. Doing that during the summer means no time for EC’s. Doing that during the school year is impossible. It’s your choice, pick a more reasonable method for SAT studying and actually do something besides school academics or devote 100% of your time to SAT and fail to get in anywhere because your EC’s (or lack thereof) suck.</p>
<p>Lololol @ 12 hours a day. At my peak I probably took 3-4 tests a week, maximum of one a day. So maybe 7-10 pm then start hw. I don’t socialize too much on school nights anyway…</p>
<p>Then again, I wasn’t missing 50 of 60 CR questions or something and having to write a paragraph for each…</p>
<p>AeroEngineer is write about the “forgetting” the tests. I started SAT prep back in soph year, and just stopped because I was too lazy. I probably took a few tests from the BB back then, scoring ~200 points lower than what I ended up getting. Anyway, ya I forgot those tests, and came back a year later to use them again.</p>
<p>@Ren: 10 chars is short for 10 characters - people use it to lengthen their post past the 10 character minimum.</p>
<p>@asiansensation: lol I really have no idea whats going on here. We all know that there is no overprotective friend here - you’re the one who goes on the Korean sites and just doesn’t want us to know for some reason 
But I don’t agree with you/your friend’s advice. Reading magazines and books for CR would probably best benefit non-native English speakers. I’ve posted this multiple times, but I really have no idea at all why you would be reading something like the Scientific American for the sole purpose of SAT prep…if you want to prep, how about read some passages in the BB, or real SATs? And as an added bonus, those passages usually come with real SAT questions too to help test your comprehension!</p>
<p>And that whole quote thing is BS lol. Sure there are certain things you can do on your essay to raise your score (like write legibly, fill out all 2 pages, actually have a conclusion paragraph/sentences), but there is nothing that you HAVE to do. If you ask me, those who are dependent upon weak, poorly constructed quotes to start off their essays probably aren’t good writers “in real life.” dchow is right - concision, clarity, strength of argument are always going to be valued for subjective essay grading.</p>
<p>wow. Hardly anyone can do 1 full SAT a day, and this is coming from an Asian. (a Korean, in fact.) My very practical guess is that any normal person would be tired out in less than a week if they tried taking 1 SAT a day. Unless you’re starting to study 2 weeks before the exam, I would only recommend doing 1-2 per week, but making sure to actually do it, thoroughly, without skipping any sections, and reviewing which ones you got wrong and why. </p>
<p>Also, I think it’s also good to get specialized section books --like PR’s Workout for Reading and Writing sections. Without just taking the whole SAT over and over again, I think it might be more effective to get a specialized book for a section, which will really go in depth about the section and give thorough explanations about why an answer is right/wrong. If you do this, i really see no reason to take the blue book 3 times, which would only get redundant in my opinion. </p>
<p>that’s my two cents.</p>
<p>(echelon) sure. but i don’t understand why i would pass on the advice but not the site if i wanted to keep this “gem” to myself…</p>
<p>but i’m just saying that this is the advice given by others to people. you don’t have to follow it if you don’t want to, but, like any other SAT studying plan, this could be one of them. you might think it’s BS, you might not, but this is just an alternative to other SAT methods out there. i never said it’s 100% guaranteed, but it seemed to work for international students who made their way into top tier ivies.</p>
<p>(keeprolling) i’m also not saying that you can improve your score in 20 days. aeroengineer is right, it’s just taking one test after another. </p>
<p>(jamesford) sure, it might take over 12 hours a day (its taking 10 hours of mine), but no one ever said you had to do it. it’s mainly only for those who seek dramatic improvement (if this system works) and are willing to sacrifice a lot for it, especially those who started studying this summer and have a time crunch of prep to worry about.</p>
<p>in the end, anyone who goes to hakwon (cram school) in Korea for SAT prep uses this method, because knowing relatives in Korea and how they made it to universities here, the students in Korea aspiring for American college education focus on AP studies, SAT II’s, and their own school exams during the school year, and begin hardcore SAT prep over the summer, which then they end up scoring high 2000’s (remember, this is for those who want to go to American universities from Korea- namely the wealthy and the elite- but there ARE exceptions, like that one girl who got a full ride to harvard + harvard paid for her plane ticket). so in a sense those people get only one summer of prep (or two, depending on if they go to hakwon during previous summers) include lots of diligence in their work ethic, and add that to intense prep, and there’s your high score.</p>
<p>if they can do it, so can we. we just have to sacrifice a lot, whereas those internationals i already mentioned consider sacrificing their summer for American colleges as something typical, considering they sacrificed a lot just to study hard to perform excellently to have a chance at Ivy, let alone end up leaving Korea and entering a country with social/cultural barriers to face.</p>
<p>so it’s harder to those who are unaccustomed to sacrificing in the name of one thing (here, it’s education), so we think of it as something crazy.</p>
<p>i can tell you that within 4 days of using this method, my cumulative SAT score has increased by 1040 points, but that probably won’t be of much credit.</p>
<p>that’s just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>The thing is that this method is completely unnecessary. Do you really believe all of these people who scored 2200+ </p>
<ol>
<li>Spent 5+ hours a day on SAT (anything more than 1-2 hours a day is ridiculous) using a similar method
and/or</li>
<li>Are simply natural test takers?</li>
</ol>
<p>Absolutely not. Study SMART. You could kill yourself with this method, or you could try a much more reasonable method and achieve exactly the same results. In college, the kid who kills himself rereading the entire textbook before a midterm is probably going to do worse than the kid who reviews his notes, old tests, etc. Why do more work than you have to? You’re on CC, you must be intelligent, so save yourself the time and the inevitable burnout.</p>