<p>Hello, I would very much like to learn about any/all techniques that people have used to earn an 800 (or any great score for that matter). I am currently a junior. On the January SAT I scored a 2200(800 cr, 680 m, 720 w), on the march sat i scored a 2180 (780cr, 700m, 700w). In order to increase my math score on my third(and final) attempt, I have purchased Dr. Chung's Sat math book. In the meantime, I am studying for the math II sat II. While I do understand that there are a couple topics on the math 2 that aren't on the math portion on the sat, I still believe that studying for it can help my sat I math results. I am going to do at least one section of sat math(sat I or sat II) every night. Will this help me? Understand that I am an A level math student and consider myself strong in math, I just have a tendency to misread the question, and/or have trouble with the highest level of problem solving. Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>The best and most assuring way to score an 800 on the math is by recording all your mistakes in all the math sections you took and start understanding and memorizing the idea of each one, after doing that in a couple of tests you will score at least 2 800s out of three tests and thats the whole issue.
Could you please give me some advice on the CR section, my target is 700, am now in the 600s, do you understand all the words in the sentence completion ? do you read the whole passage then go answer the questions or you go to the question first the tackle each question alone, please give me some advice… i have memorized 2000 sat vocab until now, are they enough ?</p>
<p>To answer your question, no I do not understand each and every word in the sentence completion. What I personally do for the sc’s is first find all of the words that fit in the first “slot” so to say. Once I have ruled out the ones in which the first word doesn’t fit, I look at the second word. Sometimes I instantly know the answer to the question, other times its a process of eliminating the ones that just aren’t right. Knowing roots of words can be helpful. For the passage based, I read the entire passage before looking at the questions. I come up with the main idea of the passage before I move on to the questions. For some of them I read the question while covering up the answer choices. Instead of basing my answer on what the college board puts in the answer choices, I come up with my own answer before looking at them. I then match the answer I came up with with one of the choices that is given to me. And 2000 sounds like an awful lot. I memorized 1000 at most, but I have always had a pretty good vocabulary so I’m not sure what the “limit” is in terms of how many vocab words to learn.</p>
<p>I have gotten an 800 in math quite frequently (but always 770+) in the practice tests I have taken (23 full tests recorded) and I have an 800 from the real test. I can tell you that the only way to get an 800 at math is repetition. Unless you are a mathematical savant and are amazing at problem solving, you can only minimize your chances of getting one wrong by practicing and seeing all the different kinds of problems they can think of. Math techniques will get you quite far, such as topics covered in prep books, but there are synthesis questions of these techniques with problem solving involved (most commonly found in last 2 of each section) that are so numerous that can’t be covered in the math topics sections of you book but over time you will be able to see all of them. </p>
<p>In regards to silly errors. Do the whole test twice. Once through with the questions, and then once through to check every one.I know that sounds insane, but once you get to a high enough level that you can finish all the questions with a few minutes left you’ll love those minutes to catch silly errors. My technique for silly errors is this. First time through, do all the questions and write down your work ON THE TEST BOOKLET and then your answer ON THE TEST BOOKLET. Second time through, follow through your work and then if that makes sense bubble in your answer. Writing down work is the biggest piece, because I would always get easy questions wrong through silly mistakes from “mental math” (ex. writing out 180-70 would get it right, versus I’d put down something like 100 from mental math.).</p>
<p>If you are at that level, careless mistake is the only way get you away from the 800.</p>