a HUGE tip that will raise your SAT math score 10-20 points (really)

Test Preparation
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<p>Everyone taking the March SAT, listen up: </p>

<p>1) Get out your TI-83.
2) Go to Google. Find a list of prime numbers.
3) Start a new program on your TI wherein you simply LIST all the primes up to 100 or 150 or so. Separate them by commas. Just make that list the first line of the program and then close the program.
4) When the SAT asks you a question about primes, simply go to Edit under the programs menu, choose your program (I called mine PRIMES) and you'll have the list all ready to use.</p>

<p>Notas Bene: </p>

<p>--Make sure your list is accurate. Double-check it with a second website. Then: TRUST IT!
--Make sure you get good/fast at accessing it so you can do it quickly in the heat of the moment on the SAT and it won't cost you time.
--The collegeboard website says explicitly that you do NOT have to delete programs from your calculator, therefore this awesome trick is 100% allowed.</p>

<p>There are always AT LEAST a handful of prime number problems on the SAT. Save yourself some time. I was stupid, I didn't use a program like this. I missed 2 problems about primes and got a 780 (from careless errors with prime numbers, not to mention a bunch of wasted time listing primes!). </p>

<p>make the program!!! </p>

<p>best,
claret quilty</p>

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<p>isnt that like cheating???</p>

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<p>"--The collegeboard website says explicitly that you do NOT have to delete programs from your calculator, therefore this awesome trick is 100% allowed."</p>

<p>Where does it say this? I'd would LOVE to know. At the last SAT (Jan.22), I had programs on my calculator, and the prompter said she was going to walk around to check our calculators for programs. Well, I got so scared that I put my calc in the pocket of my hoodie and took the dam test without a calc. I was scared that you weren't allowed to have programs on your calc. So I am pleading for a URL so that I can rest assured my loaded TI-83 will be of use to my this Saturday. Thank you.</p>

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<p>"I'd would LOVE to know." = "I would love to know"</p>

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<p>The TI-89 has programs pre-loaded and they don't make you delete those. So I don't see how they would know about this. I took the SAT 3 times before I reached high school for a talent search thing, and not one proctor checked my calculator for programs or anything. And I took the SAT with other high schoolers at the time too, and no one was checked. </p>

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<p>they didn't check my calculator when I took it in December...but uhh...prime numbers will be the least of my worries lol...give me the answers and I'll be set :)</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/testday/calc.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/testday/calc.html&lt;/a> ...I don't see anything on here that says you can't have programs on your grapher.</p>

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<p>you are allowed to have any program on your calculator. You could even have a dictionary on it if u wanted.</p>

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<p>I didn't use a calculator on the SAT. They're overrated.</p>

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<p>Is there a dictionary that you can put in your calculator?</p>

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<p>Well, a dictionary wouldn't be of much use on your calculator, because you aren't allowed to use calculators on the non-math parts.</p>

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<p>look at word in question during math part, go back in test during verbal. Simple as pie.</p>

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<p>I suppose you could do that, if you didn't get caught. Not the honest thing to do though.</p>

<p>I used to use a dictionary for my ti-89 in school. I don't know what it's called, but it's out there.</p>

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<p>inserting prime numbers: thats an interesting idea and it would save few precious moments. thanx!</p>

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u could do that but make sure the proctor doesn't catch you going back and looking at the other parts. lol!</p>

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<p>man you people, be ashamed, i pwned SAT I math with a $5 calculator :) 800</p>

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<p>-Newbyreborn-</p>

<p>Shutup lol...no one cares...I used a $90 graphing calculator and got a...nevermind lol</p>

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<p>Isn't this kind of cheating? Besides, it's not that difficult to just remember the prime numbers, unless you have some kind of mental block around them.</p>

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<p>well...if they're in the calculator you won't HAVE to memorize them...that's the point lol</p>

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<p>yo how would u go about downloading the dictionary totally hypothetical</p>

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<p>Go to <a href="http://www.ticalc.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ticalc.org&lt;/a> and look in the ti-89 archives.</p>