<p>here's where all you people with perfect scores who are longing to brag about it can post and be proud of yourselves</p>
<p>I'm one of you</p>
<p>I think this thread will be filled up questions like "Hey, how did you do it?" :D</p>
<p>So allow me, fast27, "hey, how the hell did you do it?"</p>
<p>Guess I should be more specific though. How many times have you taken the test? Which year in highschool are u in?</p>
<p>damn does this club allow superscores or only single sitting 2400?</p>
<p>Eh, I got 2400 in one sitting :D so I guess I can answer some questions or give advice if people have specific questions?</p>
<p>what are your tips for the math section?</p>
<p>teach me your critical reading and writing ways!</p>
<p>coming to this forum gives me a very serious inferiority complex... :(</p>
<p>fast27,</p>
<p>How come your stat shows your sat scores as following?
SAT I Math 770
SAT I Critical Reading 710
SAT I Writing 650</p>
<p>amb3r : " I studied last time and not this time.. score went up. This happens all the time. You studied, and your score increased. Not by much, but it didn't like go down 100 points. I think that's reasonable."</p>
<p>try to keep your post consistent.</p>
<p>How to get an 800 in math? That is, how can I get almost 100% of the math questions correct? All I need advice on is math, because I got 670 in October, even though I was getting mid 700s in most of my practice tests (which were from blue book and princeton 11 sats). What study books are recommended?</p>
<p>Studies show that kids who get a 2400 are more socially inept than kids who have lower scores.</p>
<p>Keep braggin!</p>
<p>I don't know why, but I don't believe amb3r got a 2400. :o</p>
<p>joey you're just jealous. i WISH i could get a 2400, you're merely stating that to make yourself feel better.</p>
<p>Yeah, I felt lame doing that, but I did get the score I claimed to get :D</p>
<p>GK23, a 670 is only a few questions from a 750ish. Do you time yourself while you practice? Have you been trying entire practice tests to see whether you have the endurance to keep up your accuracy in the last math section? Are you making more mistakes in a certain subject -- trig, geometry, polynomials, counting, word problems, etc.? Did you make some careless mistakes on the october test? For sat math, I do a page of questions, check all of them, and then repeat. There are some questions that are very easy to check -- solve for x/y type questions where you can plug back your answers, geometry questions where you can make sure angles sum up or something similar, word problems where you can ask yourself whether your answer realistically makes sense, and so on. When you get questions wrong, are you reading the book solutions very carefully and making sure you understand them? I think that the real sats are the best practice, although I suggest barron's if you want to practice harder questions, because if you can master all of those, the real test will probably be a lot easier. I used Barron's and the real tests in the blue book as well as online. I also remember using princeton although I don't think any math sections from that book. In general, I remember princeton as being intermediate in difficulty, between the level of the real test and the level of Barron's. The questions are pretty reflective of those on the real test, except princeton seems to be poorly edited, and tends to include a few mistakes, which is annoying.</p>
<p>I don't know much about math strategies, though :( Maybe the OP can contribute.</p>
<p>Thanks amb3r. I do most of what you say already, except the checking each page part. I read all explanations and all that. But it sucks that I won't be able to see what exactly I got wrong in the October test because I really think I didn't miss more than 4 (including omissions and grids ins, which have no penalty, and the possibilty of them being in the unscored experimental section) and because I think college board doesn't show the questions. Also congratulations on your score.</p>
<p>Seriously, Joey, haterade much?</p>
<p>For all the 2400s: How long did it take u to prepare and how many times did you take the SAT?</p>
<p>oh yeah my stat shows that cuz its an old test. I retook it in Oct. and got 2400</p>
<p>I prepared by starting in soph year... I took the SAT twice back then and also took a 2-day rushed P-ton Review course. I also took about 7-9 practice tests back in soph year. (got a 2130 back then)</p>
<p>After a brief hiatus, I took a few (3-4) more practice tests for the PSAT in Oct of junior year (got 234). This is when I found this writing section prep manual which had all the grammar rules. After tons of practice with the grammar rules, I had memorized them all. Since then, I have gotten all 80's on the writing MC portion.</p>
<p>Then I didn't touch the SAT for a while. I took the ACT in Sept (34) and started studying all my old notes for SAT in mid-Sept. I took a few more practice tests (I really think practice makes perfect!). I also bought the blue book (Coll. Board). For vocab (one of my weaknesses) I read lots of books and wrote down all the words I didn't understand. Then I would look them up (I did this all summer). For another weakness (CR passages), I would do lots of practice passages and questions and, every time I got one wrong, I woulld invariable try to find out WHY. I tried not to make the same types of mistakes twice. I also got about 9 hours of sleep b4 test day. </p>
<p>I was pretty sick on test day (coughing, sneezing, blowing my nose). I took a whole roll of Kleenex and a bag of cough drops. Halls is really a life saver. </p>
<p>So that's how I did it. Hopefully this will help someone.</p>
<p>Fast27, could you provide us with a link or keywords to search for the writing packet? TIA</p>
<p>I took it twice, first last spring and then in October. I prepared for like a month before the spring testing, but I did a lottt of practice tests -- literally all the Princeton, Barron's, real, and online CB tests, I think, as well as a few Kaplans tests. But I didn't test to my satisfaction in the spring. I scored in the low 2300s. I think I was too stressed about whether all my studying would pay off, and basically overanalyzed a bunch of questions to death, changing a few correct answers to incorrect answers. Overanalyzing on the SAT is a very bad thing to do. On the October test, I learned to go with my gut.</p>
<p>When I took the test in October, I hadn't touched standardized test prep books all summer, but picked a few up again and studied for the ACT in September for about a week beforehand. Then before the SAT, I spent friday rereading the entire Barron's 3500 word list, found about 100 words I had forgotten and memorized them. If you want a 2400, one of the worst ways not to get it is to get vocab questions wrong, because that's the kind of thing that is somewhat predictable. That Barron's word list is the most comprehensive and if you do know all 3500 vocab you should not get any sentence completion questions wrong, so I suggest it for the people who are trying for 800 on CR. I ran through my stacks of old practice tests and looked at what I had done wrong. I also read from Barron's 2400 club book again. I didn't like it very much, but I think the tips can be useful for some people. I had made a packet of ~30 examples to use for the essay section, and refreshed my memory of the details of those examples. Then I practiced writing theses and selecting examples for a few old essay prompts to make sure I could do that in about a minute. I should have started studying earlier for the Oct SAT but I kind of left everything off until the last two days before the test. Anyway, by Friday night I was pretty confident I would test well. I slept for like 3 hours before the test.. I don't sleep much. Woke up and chugged a Red Bull, brought another with me into the car. I was sick on test day just like fast27. I brought two minipacks of tissues with me and went through both during testing.</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 7th and 8th grade too, studied like months and months for those although I don't remember how I did it anymore. I got a 1550/1600 on the old SAT in 8th grade.. when we still had analogies and all of that stuff.</p>