<p>How were you able to eliminate your careless errors? Did it come with lots of practice? Did you find yourself often making careless mistakes on practice tests?</p>
<p>Well I took the test 3 times (4 times including the PSAT) and I only scored a perfect on my last try. All of the other times I missed 1 question, due to a dumb mistake. For example, on my second SAT I somehow missed the first question on the first math section, and I got a 770 (scores go like this: 770, 79, 770, 800). </p>
<p>When I was taking practice tests I usually made more careless errors than I did on the actual test. However, you should be aiming for -1 or -2 at the most on your practices if you want a perfect math score.</p>
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<p>I did that on the PSAT, lol, wasn’t too happy about that.</p>
<p>meh, i took it twice-- 670 then 760. i worked my butt off and read thru a practice test book in a week [I’m in cal ii so it was hard to relearn algebra and geometry]</p>
<p>i’m happy with my score though ^^</p>
<p>Haha. It had to take the SAT three times before I finally got 800 math. I think what really helped is when I told myself to approach the questions differently. </p>
<p>For me, CR questions are more difficult, but if I answered every question and did not guess (on practice tests), I would get -0 as predicted. For math, the same could not be said, even though the questions were much easier. I always made 2 dumb careless mistakes regardless of the test.</p>
<p>So what I decided to do on this last test was to treat Math as I treated CR. I did not skim the questions and answer them quickly. Instead, I UNDERLINED the questions as I read them, circled every important word in the questions (e.g. integer, shaded, underlined, median (not to be confused w/ mean)) so diligently that I knew I could not have missed anything. </p>
<p>E.G.
For the question, “what proportion of the figures are shaded triangles?”, I (1) carefully underlined the entire sentence AS I read to ensure that I had read each word (2) circled the words shaded and triangles (3) wrote the words “shaded triangle” next to the question and proceeded to circle the shaded triangles and number them. I then drew an arrow from each shaded triangle to the words “shaded triangle” so that when I reviewed the questions later, there would be NO ambiguity. I then did this for ALL the questions. I know what I did may sound a bit extreme, but if you want to guarantee that 800, do it. Even if a question is this easy, it is very easy to make one or more mistakes on a 54 question test. </p>
<p>If you can easily get a 800 SAT Math II, the Math section on the SAT I becomes more of a reading comprehension test.</p>
<p>Thanks, bud! that really helped. I have a habit of just skimming through the question and I think that’s what caused my -1 on this december one ><</p>