<p>Tomorrow marks the one month countdown until October 9th, the date of the October SAT test. I have been studying adequately during the summer. Is this ~100 point leap possible?</p>
<p>Breakdown of my March SAT:</p>
<p>CR - 750
M - 770
W - 710 (12 essay)</p>
<p>Yuppers, especially if you improve your performance on the Writing MC significantly.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply.</p>
<p>I was actually quite surprised to see that it was my Writing score that pulled me down, especially with a 12 essay. Do you have any specific tips on how I should manage my time each day with the SATs, and how to approach the Writing in a better manner? My CR score has also not been as sharp as it was before.</p>
<p>And yes, I have been reading your great guide :)</p>
<p>You have an awesome essay score, so raising that 710 writing to an 800 is definitely no problem. Be careful, use common sense, and pace yourself by doing your best question types first (for me I do identifying error questions first because they take the least amount of time). I’m sort of the exact opposite of you. I usually get only 2 wrong on the MC section but get a crappy essay score. If you’ve been prepping a lot over the summer, your reading and math should improve a little bit, which would bring your score well over 2320.</p>
<p>Thanks - What was your approach to only -2 on W?</p>
<p>2230-2320 is much more feasible than a 2060-2400.</p>
<p>Yes, you can do it easily. Your Math score will increase or decrease only according to luck because you are that high on the conversion table. You can improve your Critical Reading score a teensy-weensy bit. My guess is a bit more thinking and concentration will help you answer 1-2 extra questions that will increase your score substantially.</p>
<p>And regarding the writing score, given your total score and performance in CR, there’s no where to go but up. Having gone through this same process a few months ago, I guess you make some silly mistakes in the paper (I sure did). As in, you get it wrong, see the explanation and then kick yourself hard for overlooking the mistake. To correct this, you might wanna try some rudimentary techniques like saying the sentence out loud so you can figure out what’s weird, or playing Devil’s Advocate and eliminating the wrong answers first or simple substitution.</p>
<p>You can definitely improve your score.</p>
<p>I do identifying errors questions first because they only take 7-8 minutes to finish and even the hard questions don’t use up too much time. This leaves me with less pressure to finish the improving sentences questions and improving paragraphs questions. After I’ve finished the entire big-MC section, I use the last 5-7 minutes remaining to look over identifying errors questions first because my careless mistakes usually occur there. If there’s still time left, I scan my answer choices on the improving senctences section and see if the sentence flows smoothly. The important thing is to not rely entirely on grammar. You want to use experience, common sense and logic as your main weapons and only regard grammar as a foundation. Most importantly, you want to FOCUS. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken the writing section with a wandering mind, only to score a 40/49. With 35 questions in its longest section, the writing part makes you lose concentration EASILY.</p>
<p>If you’re missing vocab, go through Direct Hits and learn the words you don’t know.</p>
<p>Familiarize yourself with grammar rules. Writing MC is the easiest section to improve on.</p>