Advice To Get an 800 on SAT Math?

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<p>I took the March SAT and got a 740 in math (2 wrong = -60 because of the curve), and I got 1 wrong on a geometry question, level of difficulty hard, and 1 wrong on a statistics question, level of difficulty medium. I've taken all the College Board practice tests and tend to get very few, if any wrong. </p>

<p>What should I do about the last 1 or 2 questions? Sometimes I find those tricky to get in the time limit. But generally I don't even get those wrong (just want to know since sometimes I do). A big problem for me is actually probably more my stupid mistakes than not knowing how to do the question. I'm sure that statistics question was a really stupid mistake. I never get medium questions wrong because I actually don't know how to do the question. I also currently have an A in AP Statistics.</p>

<p>I'm taking the May SAT in a week. Any advice to get an 800? Math was my highest score, and I got a 2070 total. My hope was to get a bare minimum of a 2100. If I'd gotten a single more math question wrong I'd have that. If I get an 800 this time, with superscore I'll have a 2130, assuming my writing and critical reading don't improve.</p>

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<p>I meant if I got a single more math question RIGHT I’d have a 2100.</p>

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<p>If it’s only 1 or 2 questions, you have everything down pat. Take time at the end of the section to review questions that you were unsure about/had to think about. I like to obviously mark hard questions in the test book so I remember to go back and review them before time’s up. Though if you have the time, review every question and your answer. Besides that, I’ve heard to read each question carefully, even on the math. I know that’s cliched, but it’s true. I’ve been tripped up a few times when I would jump straight into the answers and try to solve the problem without fully reading the question, only to see that there was one small last sentence at the end of the question that I completely missed, like “k is greater than p”.</p>

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<p>Adding on to elgecko, make sure you know for what the question is asking. For example, if they ask for x, and they have y down as one of the answers, they’ll trip some people up with that.</p>