<p>I took the SAT's in March and got a 1080, 500/Cr, 580/Math, and a 510 on the writing. What I want is to bring my Cr up to around a 550-600 and my math to around a 620. I know I have the potential to do it, I just have to study. How should I study for it? All the colleges I am applying to need around a 1200. PLease help!!!</p>
<p>Yes,it is possible… People are making huge 400- point improvements all the time.You just need to hit your max .If you know all the concepts,there is no way you cant improve ;maybe you want answer every single question correctly ,but you can definitely score 650 on each section :)</p>
<p>i think what needs to happen is that you need to get lucky with the test (aka it plays to ur strengths)… prepping isn’t the only thing that helps.</p>
<p>a 120 point increase over the summer is more than possible. In fact, it probably won’t even require that much effort given the time frame from now to october. I’d say you can end up reaching 1400/1600 if you work hard enough.</p>
<p>Depending on how motivated you are, here are a number of things you can do.</p>
<p>1st of all, considering your scores, I think you might need to review some of the math concepts/grammar rules/vocabulary before you start doing practice tests.</p>
<p>For the concepts, I’ve heard grubers is very good for math, and some of the barrons strategies from their regular book and 2400 book are pretty useful as well. I wouldn’t recommend taking their practice tests because they are not as accurate as the official college board ones. </p>
<p>For writing and grammar rules, I went on sparknotes and looked up the “7 deadly screwups” and on my practice tests I’ve been getting 0-2 wrong on writing. It seriously covers all of the sentence errors on the SAT. </p>
<p>For reading, there is really not a whole lot of strategy to it. I would recommend reading some difficult novels over the summer and try reading numerous articles everyday from economist.com or NY times. Reading material like this will definitely improve your reading skills. Make sure that you read and try to understand what the author is trying to convey, etc. For vocabulary, If you are really hardcore, you can memorize Barron’s 3500 words and probably ace the sentence completion part considering you learn all of them and how they are used. If you want to learn a good amount but less, you can go on [Flashcards:</a> The world’s largest library of printable flash cards](<a href=“http://www.flashcardexchange.com%5DFlashcards:”>http://www.flashcardexchange.com) and look up the sparknotes SAT vocab list which contains about 1000 words. If you split this up and dedicate a bit of your time to learning some every day, you can definitely learn them all before october. There are other great world lists like Direct Hits, or Princeton Review’s “Hit parade” which have about 500 words. </p>
<p>After you’ve reviewed your concepts, learned your grammar rules, and learned your vocab/read, it would be a good time to start doing practice tests.</p>
<p>For practice tests, definitely get the blue book. If i were you, I would wait until July because I hear they will be releasing a new version with 3 extra tests. If 11 practice tests is not enough for you, you can take the 2 free ones that the collegeboard offers online, and if you want you can buy the SAT online course for an extra 6. </p>
<p>If you seriously do everything I’ve said (obviously you would probably need to sacrifice a lot of your summer time), you could definitely see a 400 or even a 500 point increase depending on how motivated you are.</p>
<p>Looking back on my breakdown I did really well on the reading, I took AP English Language this year, and my class primarily focused on difficult readings and philosophical pieces. I need to work on my grammar. So is most of the the study work almost like busy work? I have last years Blue book.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think the studying should be considered “busy work” since it ultimately is going to have a positive impact on your score. Busy work would be something like copying vocabulary words from the glossary of a textbook or something with no real gain in knowledge/reasoning.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that practicing for the SAT will also improve your ability to do well in more advanced classes IMO. After finishing the entire blue book, I felt as if I “got smarter” and I increased my speed solving many different kinds of problems.</p>