<p>Hello,
My name is Esme and I am a female high school student in NY. </p>
<p>I took the March SAT and the breakdown was 460M, 750CR, and 800W. I have articles, poems, and short stories published in magazines and websites nationwide. I have 5s in AP Lang and Lit. Reading and writing are not issues for me... </p>
<p>My math obviously was HORRIBLE. I am so terrible at math. However, I am willing to work very, very hard to improve my score. </p>
<p>1) How can I improve my math score? What do you think is an attainable goal? Is a 650 attainable?
2) How will colleges such as NYU, Tufts, BU, Georgetown etc view my SAT score? I have excellent language skills, but will my math be a deal breaker and keep me out? </p>
<p>I believe that you can attain a 650 if you thoroughly devote yourself to learning the math. It’s all the way up to Algebra II (with a little trig I think?), so the best thing you could do is buy an SAT study book and just work to death on the math parts of the book until you’re confident that you can do really well. </p>
<p>I think if you can get your math score to be at least a 600, NYU, Tufts, BU, etc. would think your SAT score is good (2150). Couple that with a good GPA and the fact that you have been published worldwide you’d have a very good chance of getting accepted into those schools. Good luck with studying! :)</p>
<p>For Math just review the theory and basics, that should get you up to 600 then use Dr.Chung’s to boost up to 800. I use Gruber’s as well. Do you have any advice on CR and W? My W score is terrible. Thanks in advance </p>
<p>wow i am jealous. my writing is 630 and math is 750, i only wish i could get that writing!
as far as math tips go,
1.) there is a book called Gruber’s SAT and it is yellow… awesome for math, if you learn the techniques in it, you can raise your score to at least a 600 i would say.
2.) take the blue book practice test and see what you get before taking grubers. Then take grubers and learn all of that, then take a different blue book test, and see how your score changed.
3.) if you still need more help, try kaplan’s sat book, it is also very helpful for math…
4.) remember these tips too:
… if you cant do the long algebra to solve, plug in the answers
… if it is not specified otherwise, the figure is drawn to scale
… make all percent questions out of a sample size of 100 to solve things easier
I hope this helps!
p.s… any writing tips anyone? something that could take me from 630 to 700+? my issue is on improving sentence errors…</p>
<p>Thank you all for the math tips! I will definitely get the Gruber’s book. </p>
<p>I will try to help with CR and W.<br>
CR -
Go on Quizlet or google SAT vocabulary. There are mass lists of like 250 - 3000 words that are constantly on the SAT. Learn those, and how to use them, if you have time. You can also practice that with Free Rice, which donates food to people in poverty while boosting your skills! For both writing and reading, just simply read a LOT. Find books or magazines you are interested in. Read the news, and understand articles. </p>
<p>W -
I’m not sure how much I can explain this one. In my essays, which I have gotten 12s on both times, I use one example of a famous real person and one example from either a classic book (Catch 22, Great Expectations, Paradise Lost, etc) or an example from my life. Memorize some common quotations from interesting people like Emerson and MLK. DO NOT use MLK or Lincoln in your essay, you can’t really break 10 with them. Learn the stories of Hillary Clinton, Obama, Robert E. Lee, Sally Fairchild, etc, less common people and apply them to your essays. As for correcting the sentence, you realllyyy just have to read more - especially books. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone, would love some more math tips.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely do lots of problems on specifically SAT math prep books. A lot of times in class you learn about the proper way of solving math problems, but in the SAT you can often plug in numbers and test each answer instead of figuring out the algebraically correct way (making sure testing each answer doesn’t take too long). They only test on a limited amount of math subjects, so just learn the basics from each and you’re good to go.</p>
<p>Doing many practice problems does help. A tutor also wouldn’t hurt. Also, you should consider the ACT. I performed a lot better on the ACT math section (32) than the SAT math section (490). I’m not entirely sure why, but I could understand the ACT questions more clearly than the SAT.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Esme77!
And I’m glad my tips helped!
Also for everyone on here whether you have issues inmath, writing, or reading, the answer is Shawn Pateel’s 2400 in 7 steps book. I just got the book and studied the writing section, my score went from 650 to 710 in a week on practice tests! An that’s assuming I get a 10 on the essay:)
Good luck everyone!!!</p>
<p>Well, first analyze your score. Which topics did you do ok-good on and which topics did you struggle on? Then, get a Kaplan SAT book and read through all the math tips many times, do as many practice questions as possible, and take the test(s) online. If this doesn’t work, a tutor is helpful. The SAT math only goes up to Algebra II/Geometry from what I believe.</p>
<p>Math is really easy to improve. Just by getting a handy SAT review book should suffice. I would recommend Princeton Review and the BLUE BOOK (blue book is number one for practice tests). Read through the math content and do the little excercises. As for practice tests i found that most practice tests just copy the blue book, well the princeton review does anyways. Just usethe blue book for practice it is the best indicator of howyou will do on the real SAT.</p>
<p>I’m somewhat like you, great CR and W but my math score isn’t as great. My advice is just to practice a TON, and eventually you’ll kind of start to get the hang of the types of questions that are asked on the SAT. It’s all about the practice!</p>
<p>I went from 68 PSAT to getting 800 Math 3 times in a row just by taking practice tests. This would probably only work if you were already familiar with all the content from ALG 1 & 2 and Geometry. The more practice tests that you take, the more repetitive the questions will feel and the easier the curve-ball questions will feel (like the ones that use weird symbols as operators).</p>
<p>Now tell me something, how the hell do you improve writing?!?! (650 writing ftw)</p>