fun with SAT??

people who know what SAT is would probably kill me due to the topic of this post..

 My first SAT attempt is the number one regret in my life. It's not that i regret taking the test,  but i regret going into the room unprepared, especially in the lethal critical reading section.

i felt sad to think that we didn't have a really proper exposure on the critical reading section, no one taught us the skills, no one gave us any methods to solve the questions, all we had were blue collegeboard books to figure out what CR is.. With that little knowledge of what CR is, we did our first SAT attempt . It was very frustrating to have read throughout the passage, when in the end you realized that you don't understand it at all and you only have little time left to answer the questions. The sentence completion which test on the vocabulary, really irritate me and i left most of the vocab questions blank so that my marks won't get deducted.

As for the writing section, i wish i could turn back the clock and practice more on my grammar. Although we had a lecturer to teach us writing, the class only covered the essay part and not the grammar part which i believe needs more improvement on. The essay part was fun because it was very subjective. It's actually how you conveyed your idea in the essay.

The math section was the easiest section, i actually enjoyed doing math as i can relax my mind after answering the writing and the head-cracking CR part. Math needs a LOT of practice, if you did enough practice , i don't think 800 is a problem.

Although most of the jpa scholars think that the sime darby scholars will not face any problems on the SAT 2nd attempt, I personally feel that we still have a lot of flaws that need to be addressed.  

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SAT Examination

June 6th, 09, Saturday

The date of our (SD scholars) SAT examination. The day we wished we could repeat. The day we wish we were better prepared for....

Here's a bit of my experience taking the SAT examination that I would like to share with all. Hopefully anyone reading this blog would find it useful.

For me, the SAT examination is somewhat damn difficult, especially the Critical Reading and the Essay part (but not the Math part:)) for my weakness is in English language. Taking the SAT exam without a good preparation; I would consider as suicide.

For the past 3 months before the exam day, I did not had enough practices for the Critical Reading and Writing. Yes, we (SD scholars) do have lecturer for SAT Writing but the thing is: we were so focused on the essay, and essay alone that we (or rather, I) sort of "completely" ignored/forgotten about the other parts of the Writing section (grammar etc.). So, during the exam day, I sort of went through hell for not having a proper preparation.

As for the Critical Reading...yeah...that is another hell I went through. The vocabulary was too high, the passage was too long & difficult to cope with (that is for me. Again as I said earlier, my English sucks). I had headache reading the passage, trying to understand wth is the author trying to convey....

I R.E.A.L.L.Y. wish I was more prepared that day. I really wish I had a lecturer to help & guide me along the way. I really wish I did more SAT practices...*sigh*

*I'll update this CR & Writing with further details later, this is just sort of intro. Hope that those reading this would find it useful..:p*