<p>Okay, I am taking the SAT's on Oct. 4th and December 6th. And being a Junior, I am hardly able to find time to study or practice for the SAT. AP history, Calc AB and AP Chem are taking up 6 hours of my time!! How are the people that score really high able to do well on the exam, with other things such as sports etc? I have winter track coming up for me in november and I have no idea how to fit in SAT in here. Currently by the time I start my school hw etc, its 4:00 and goes on till 7:00. 7 to 10 I try do to SAT but never works, and I attempt to pick up my school works from 10 again and finish them (quite often going till 12:30 - 1:30) in the morning. Anyone that has managed to juggle these things, how did you do it?</p>
<p>If you’re really so busy … summers and weekends.</p>
<p>For a 2400, I believe you have to dedicate yourself entirely for hours every day.</p>
<p>For a much more realistic goal of 2100-2300, you just need to devoted about two days a week. One for a practice test, and one for other revision and drills.</p>
<p>Besides that, if you read college-level stuff and are good at Math, you don’t need much.</p>
<p>thanks…bump</p>
<p>a 2400 is possible. Just spend an hr a day perfecting everything, and take SATs sometime in senior year. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Although I believe luck is required for a 2400, there is the saying that “luck is preparation meeting opportunity” </p>
<p>So, preparation is a must 
But if you just don’t know that word on CR, don’t sweat it</p>
<p>The lesson I learned the hard way: Make a schedule, and stick to it!</p>
<p>Yeah… CR is what prevents most of us from getting above 2350. I think it’s safe to say just about everyone on these boards gets an 800 in Math and WR.</p>
<p>yeah an 800 in Math and Writing is def. attainable but the ambiguity of some of CR questions really kills me.</p>
<p>NOT TRUE UTTARESH. I have a 700 math.</p>
<p>I bet the questions you miss are from stupid errors, not because you don’t know how to do it.</p>
<p>that quote is from the last lecture</p>
<p>Few things:</p>
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<li><p>I seriously doubt you spend 6 hrs a day on three AP’s (unless you count time in class). I have about 2 hours a night on AP’s alone, and that’s very manageable.</p></li>
<li><p>3 hrs/day is ridiculous for the SAT. 30 minutes 5-6 days/week is much better.</p></li>
<li><p>6.5 hrs of homework a day? Manage your time better. Many of us with similar course loads get home after 6 and still go to bed before you.</p></li>
<li><p>How do I word this…don’t go into the test acting like 2400 is realistic. I like how Adam Robinson puts it something like: “An amazing score happens accidentally on the way to a great score.” Once you’re in the 2300+ range, the SAT is really a matter of if you’re lucky enough to know some of the harder sentence completion vocab or not misread math question.</p></li>
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<p>Yeah, unless you’ve already gotten a 2300+ and thought that it wasn’t too difficult to do so, don’t count on having a shot at a 2400. Just aim for a score good enough to get you into the college of your choice.</p>
<p>Oh well it doesn’t matter, you’re a junior and thankfully not a senior. You have plenty of time to get a good score, so don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>I’m taking 5 AP classes and only do 30 minutes of work at home. I usually just do my homework during class. I usually get easy ass math homework and easy ass econ hw.</p>
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I disagree. Go into the test feeling confident! I mean, I didn’t prepare for the SAT, but my attitude was: “Every one of these questions is answerable. I can get them all right.” This outlook should work even better for someone who has practiced and is prepared for the test. (For the record, I missed three.) </p>
<p>Yes, getting a 2400 involves luck. But that’s not what you should be focusing on when you’re taking the test. You should be thinking, “Hey, I have the potential to do this.”</p>
<p>Go in the test confident. If you go into the test with a defeatist mentality (i.e. any sort of negativity or uncertainty), it is usually a self-fulfilling prophecy. Afterward, when you are done, that is when you want to be realistic about your expectations. Just take the test, and worry later.</p>
<p>Word. You said what I was trying to say but better.</p>
<p>Well, you know, its that extra ten points in writing I have…;)</p>
<p>Seriously, I think this advice should be stickied somewhere in bold capitals, so that everyone can see it. Besides my natural test taking abilities, it really deserves the majority of the credit for my score.</p>
<p>Haha, hate you.</p>
<p>I agree! I mean, I guess we could attribute any number of possibilities of causality to those two factors. I’m pretty sure I’m a good test-taker because of my attitude toward these things. Like, the first time I took the PSAT, I didn’t know what to expect, so I just went for the 100%, as I would for any other test. And since then, reasoning tests have just come naturally to me. </p>
<p>Subject tests, on the other hand, are a different story…</p>