What is a good book to read to increase your SAT reading and grammar section?
Hai, Iam non native American currently a freshman and plan to retake SAT I.
When I do an SAT questions, passages on critical reading sometimes makes me sweat and dizzy. What should I do about this?
Is there any good novel that can help somehow?
About the grammar, it does really trappy…it looks like correct sentence but I believe there’s something wrong with it…but I dont know which one I should choose! Oh boy…Is there any nice free website or somekind to boost my score?
Does apply for tutor help? In my city I cant find any SAT tutor and If i want to, I have to go to abroad and it cost quite expensive, would u guys recomend this?
Please any suggestions would be nice.
Thanks in advance
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You’re a freshman, so you have lots of time to take the SATs (assuming you’re a high school freshman). So, my best advice is to learn not from SAT test books or just a tutor, but rather from doing really intensive critical reading and writing.
When I was in high school, they gave us challenging books to prepare us for the SAT, rather than drilling us on problems. That isn’t a good solution for someone who needs to take the SAT in six weeks, but it works well for someone who has a couple years.
The book I’d recommend most is this American history text: http://www.amazon.com/American-Political-Tradition-Men-Made/dp/0679723153
Whether or not you like or agree with the politics (which are eh, okay), it is a challenging, but accessible book. I learned a lot about critical reading and grammar from it. ::grin:: I know I have an extra copy or three, if you want me to send it to you.
Another thing you could do is work from a Wheelock Latin primer, or study free Latin primers at http://www.textkit.com. Much of English grammar is derived from Latin. Taking Latin in high school helped me a lot on the SATs and ACTs.
As for tutoring - if you can find it cheap or free, go for it! If you have a local university or community college (assuming you are in America), they may offer free English as a Second Language classes - in fact, they probably do. Your best bet this early won’t be to study for the SATs, but rather to just study English.
Good luck! Feel free to email me about the book, or anything else.
PS here is a grammar site that I found: http://www.english-test.net/sat/
You could try Sylvan learning center, they have tutors for that sort of thing.
As far as reading and comprehension, your best bet is just to read more. Read novels, not magazines. Look for stuff that might keep you interested, like Stephen King or Dean Koontz or something exciting. English is just like everything else, practice makes perfect.
u have test anxiety thats why u get sweaty and dizzy
when this happens take a drink of water then breathe in for 5 sec. then breathe out for another 5 sec. till Ur calm
get the Barron’s SAT book
its REALLY good b/c it is said to be harder then the actual SAT so u will be overly prepared which is always good
to increase on the verbal part u need to study vocab.
study suffixes and prefixes they r good to know so u can sorta know wat a word means
also read challenging books to broaden ur vocab. and wat u really have to do is just practice