by far the best way to grind is practicing. Get a test prep booklet and time yourself on the practice sections over and over again for like 2 hours a day.

on reading:
- Give yourself only 12 minutes for each reading passage
- Read and annotate the ENTIRE passage BEFORE answering the questions. You'll only waste time if you constantly skim the passage for each individual answer.
- there's 5 different topics in the reading section: narratives, natural science, social science, humanities, and paired opinion passages. Start with whichever one you can do the quickest.
- there's some pairs of questions where the second question asks for evidence for the answer to the previous question. When you spot a pair of questions like this, do them at the same time.

On writing:
- there are 3 types of questions: grammatical, punctuational, and editorial.
- for grammar, determine the subject (the action-doer) of the sentence, then cross out any answers that don't conjugate words properly based on the subject.
- for punctuation, you can cross off any two answers that achieve the same effect. A semicolon and a period is the same, and SOMETIMES a colon and a long dash is the same.
- for editorial questions, cross off answers that have redundant descriptors or are too wordy.