<p>I just took the practice test #1 for the official sat study guide second edition and the math section 5 basically destroyed my hopes for an 800. I timed myself and I had to leave 3 blank and I am bit unsure of 1 or 2. So, I am looking at a 750 at most. The whole thing shook my confidence for the test overall.</p>
<p>1.Are the SAT's that CollegeBoard have offered recently of similar difficulty??
2. Also,do any of you have any tips about going on after you just faced a hard section?
3. When exactly do you get your 10 minutes breaks?
4. On writing, what do you do if you think its E. but not certain. Naturally, since most of them have errors, I am inclined to believe each sentence I come across is wrong.
Any non-trolling responses are much appreciated!</p>
<p>2) Just relax and go on. If it helps calm your nerves, think that if you generally do well on standardized test and a section was tough for you, it was probably tough for everyone, so there would be a bit of a curve. Otherwise just move on. Pondering on previous questions won’t help your focus for future ones – the SAT is really a test of endurance and if you’re looking for scores in the upper echelon, you need to be focused enough to not keep making mistakes.</p>
<p>3) When I took it I think we took two breaks, one after every couple of sections. Our proctor offered us another one but I think we all declined. </p>
<p>4) When I take tests, I mark all my answers in my answer booklet (and the answer sheet obviously), and if there’s something I want to doublecheck I star it. After taking one SAT already and a few practice tests I’m going to star all the answers on the writing section I marked as E, or whatever the no change option is. Pretty much every single question I miss on writing is because I put something as E and didn’t see an error. I would star those and, once you’ve finished the section, make sure you double check them meticulously. Think of all the possible grammatical errors that could be in the sentence and read everything out loud in your head (lol oxymoron) and very carefully, and if you still don’t catch anything move on. Do this at the end though so you make sure to finish the section.</p>
<p>The real SATs are more or less of the same difficulty. You should practice more on Blue Book tests. If you get to know the official practice tests well, then you can definitely get 800 from math.
I think we had three 5 minute breaks.</p>