2011-07-27, 01:52 PM
Practice practice practice. That's all you need to have. Find some free practice questions and tests online and just do questions over and over and over. I did this all last minute an got a decent grade on the test. It also helps if your school/outside class has a free SAT class. Helped me improve from a 1400--> 1700 in 3 weeks. Then i took it 2 more times and finished with a 1860, which isn't too shabby (low for some people, but anything about a 1600 should get you into most state colleges, though i'm not sure since applying was a hell of a lot easier back in my day).
As for writing: short and sweet and to the point. Rambling won't help you at all and lessens the impact of your argument. This applies to most college writing as well, so start practicing now. More active voicing instead of passive voicing. Grammar is easy if you don't talk in slang or colloquialisms every day. For the most part, always go with the sentence that sounds like it should- this will get you far until you hit the questions that all sound great and you can't decide, in which case you WILL need to know rules.
As for writing: short and sweet and to the point. Rambling won't help you at all and lessens the impact of your argument. This applies to most college writing as well, so start practicing now. More active voicing instead of passive voicing. Grammar is easy if you don't talk in slang or colloquialisms every day. For the most part, always go with the sentence that sounds like it should- this will get you far until you hit the questions that all sound great and you can't decide, in which case you WILL need to know rules.