<p>@jamesford</p>
<p>hear, hear. I am all for studying smart, not studying brutishly. And that’s exactly right about college, too. We have to be discriminating on which books to read and not, which notes to study and not.</p>
<p>^ again, i’m just passing on advice from another source. don’t argue with me please, but go upto those who offered the advice and talk to them about it ><</p>
<p>if you don’t like the advice, you don’t have to follow it, but im just a messenger, not the one who created it.</p>
<p>sure, i’m employing this method, but i’m getting extra curricular’s done + having fun. i volunteer everyday for 4 hours, come home, study for 8-10 hours (not bad with frequent breaks), watch korean dramas, sleep. tomorrow i’m not studying, as i have other plans</p>
<p>although you don’t need to know my whole schedule, its not as grind-ish as it seems. it might be more hardcore on internationals, though. in the end, i push myself harder because i have a friend who does the same, and we encourage each other.</p>
<p>i know all this advice is disputable, but i’m not the right person to actually debate with. im just following it because…well because i dont’ feel burdened by it and also because im noticing improvement in my own case…</p>
<p>er…wow, lol</p>
<p>scratch that, my score increasing by 1050 points is NOT possible. idk where i got that from, loll</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what do you study for 8-10 hours? Just practice tests?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to mock you, just interested in how you go about it. I’ve been studying about 3 hours almost every day.</p>
<p>oh my. I think I would die if I studied that much. Seriously…and I’m going for the 2400 this Oct (from a 2250)…</p>
<p>about 2 (VERY FOCUSED) hours a day for my three SATII subject tests and SATI is all I can handle. I normally don’t do this much, unless it’s the week before the exam, but I’m trying to get it out of the way so I can survive the next semester without having SAT studying on top of everything else.</p>
<p>did you mean 140 points or did you make that 1040 point increase up in the jest of your justification?</p>
<p>actually redo the questions is a good way, but only do that after doing some more stuff when your mind is fresh from those questions</p>
<p>but honestly, there will be couple of questions that your mind will remember.</p>
<p>I know but you will forget most of them. and maybe you will have one question wrong that you did it right before :|</p>
<p>I wish I would have thought of this before writing all my answers and work/side notes in the book -_- (I do what Rocket Review tells me)</p>
<p>yeah. i wait a day or two when re-doing questions. as you approach new problems, you’ll forget old ones. keep reviewing!</p>
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<p>for 4 hours and 30 mins, i take an SAT (with 5-10 mins break after 2 sections TIMED)</p>
<p>then, an 1/2 hour-1 hour later, i begin a comprehensive 4-6 hour review filled with going over questions on the SAT i just took AND past questions i wrote on flash cards (for math and writing).</p>
<p>for CR, i don’t really memorize vocab because most of the time i can deduce my answers down to 2 choices. but for the passages, i try to get involved. there was one passage in the BB about the taj mahal. i was really interested in reading it, and it turned out i got all of the passage questions right (because i thought on the next set of passages: what can i learn from this passage for something just beside answering questions on the SAT? what can i gain from this passage that will increase my overall knowledge of things?) <– increasing my knowledge is a hook for me to get interested in reading things.</p>
<p>for CR, i also ANNOTATE each paragraph (this takes up time, so i dont know if i will in the future). i summarized each paragraph (this was for the questions that involved comparing two relatively short passages). it turned out 2 of the questions asked was in the summary i deduced from each paragraph. one of the tests in the BB had two passages about a biological scientist who classified plants/trees into categories. one passage said that his classification technique was a contribution to science but his followers were the one that stuck to the classification idea enough to finally take all things in nature and try to classify them. in my summary, i wrote “the scientist contributed to science by creating a classification system, HOWEVER, his followers took things too far”</p>
<p>it turned out two of the questions asked about the “however” part of my summary…so annotating can help because it helps you pick up things that may be subtle</p>
<p>collegeboard, i heard, puts tedious, long, and boring passages to trip students. counter them by actually being INTERESTED in the passage. psychologically, i find that leaning over the book and following each line with a pencil increased my concentration, and thus, my comprehension of the material being read</p>
<p>i find making yourself interested and as a result, engaging yourself in the passages REALLY helps in answering passage-based questions.</p>
<p>in addition, read a lot!</p>
<p>^ what did you get?</p>
<p>thanks for the insight asiansensation, you’ve shared some pretty interesting posts.</p>
<p>Sigh…I’ve put my points out there already, and like jamesford, am very skeptical about this advice. Seeing as how I can’t speak to your friend about this psychotic plan, I’m sort of limited to this thread. </p>
<p>I don’t know if the 1050 pt increase was a typo or what…</p>
<p>jamesford is right. Please note that 5+ hours a day of SAT studying is not a prerequisite to have a top score. Just think rationally, use the law of diminishing returns to realize that studying for that long of a time will grant you little benefit. </p>
<p>Quite frankly, I don’t believe in crazy study/grinding. Since when has smart studying become synonymous with 20-hour-a-day studying? This issue is distressing because I know if this was the first thread I saw when I joined CC for SAT help, and did this, it would’ve been a failure for me. Instead I luckily found the advice of xiggi, lotf, akahmed, among others, whose advice, in combination with some smart studying ultimately brought my score up from ~2250 to 2400…</p>
<p>Xiggi’s method takes a LONG time. By no means am i saying it isnt good; it’s among the best advice on CC… but it takes months to employ it to its fullest extent. This advice, as asiansensation mentioned, is for those who do not have much time before their next SAT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, asian sensation. </p>
<p>I agree w/ the notion that engaging yourself in the passage makes the CR easier. On the last practice test I took there was a super long passage, but it was fiction and about cellists and I’m a cellist so I got all those questions right. It’s hard to engage yourself in some of those really boring passages -_-</p>
<p>@KeepRolling, I didn’t use Xiggi’s method, but I did use some of the great tips in it. I studied about a month and a half for the SAT, so if you’re aiming for the October one, that’s plenty of time to do the 20 or so official CB tests available, which is what I did over the course of 6 weeks.</p>
<p>np entrancestone (:</p>
<p>echelon, you don’t have to agree, but this is just a new insight on how to study for the SAT. thanks for your concerns though…it only raises the awareness that this method ISN’T 100% guaranteed.</p>
<p>btw i LOVE the advice that taking interest in the passage helps. Really, i tried to read a passage about “architecture” and instead of normally thinking “ugh another long passage about stupid stuff”, i thought “hey i always loved buildings, lets read!” and guess what, i finished the passage in less than 2 minutes rather than the normal 4-6 minutes i take >_> So yeah.</p>
<p>I <3 SAT passages.</p>
<p>Being dead serious too</p>