<p>Can someone who has gotten a 2400 in the last year or so outline how to prepare to get 2400 on the SAT ? That would be truly helpful</p>
<p>I scored a 2360, and all I can say is that you have to take a lot of practice tests. Like 20+. Practice is pretty much the only way to do well, unless you happen to be naturally intelligent.</p>
<p>I scored a 2380, and I can tell you that it takes some practice! I only did ~7 practice tests, though 
I suppose it’s how fast you learn from your mistakes.</p>
<p>Practice tests meaning the full 4 hour test or section by section? How long did you study? What days? Any days off? What did you do the week of the test?</p>
<p>bunny2015, I did both. Full, four hour practice tests on Saturdays, almost every Saturday, for the three or four months leading up to the test. For the second time around, when I hit the 2360, I started doing some sections during the day or after dinner. Also, write lots of essays. Sometimes I would go to the library for part of lunch to write an essay. Towards the beginning, it’s more content: learning the grammar rules, the math concepts, and the vocab. Later on it becomes more applying and practicing. The week of the test, do more individual sections, but I wouldn’t recommend cramming night of the SAT.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
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<p>From personal experience, I wouldn’t stress too much over a perfect score. In the end, it’s all about getting into college. If you could spend those 100 hours doing some more community service rather than study your ass off, I’d consider it. Just looking back on myself.</p>
<p>I didn’t score a 2400 (got a 2360), but I have two friends (and a quasi-acquaintance) that did. For my two friends, both took prep courses, but that’s not super necessary. Just take the practice tests from the blue book and review the questions you got wrong. Its also helpful to form your own word lists (thats what I did) from words you don’t know and write them in a notebook, as well as their definitions. This is also a good way to naturally increase your vocab.
For the 2-3 months leading up to a test, get a manageable word list, cross out all the words you know, and look the ones you don’t up. Try to take practice tests every weekend.
Specific methods of doing well on each respective section can be found in this forum.</p>
<p>Also, a 2400 isn’t necessary to get into a good school (looking at the forums, many get into harvard, etc. with 2200’s, 2300’s). Focus on doing other things too- SAT’s will only take you so far.</p>
<p>How do you guys recommend looking over and correcting previously completed practice tests? I got perfect scores on the last couple practice tests I did but just a 2100 on the actual test.</p>
<p>The key to unlocking improvement when reviewing tests is not just to know how to solve that specific question. Of course you must know that too, but the key is understanding the technique behind it.</p>
<p>Did you get it wrong because you calculated perimeter instead of area? Is that something you fall for often? Did you get it wrong because you legitimately didn’t know how to do it? Learn that concept then.</p>
<p>When you see you missed a question because you didn’t catch the trick that x-squared minus y-squared always needs to be converted to (x+y)(x-y), then you have to be able to see that trick on the next problem.</p>
<p>You’ll never see the exact question again on your actual SAT, so you have to identify your trends. Learn what types/categories of things get you…don’t just learn how to do a specific problem.</p>