Aiming for the perfect score.

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>I gave my first SAT six months ago and scored a 1860, which compared to my other academic achievements is horribly shameful. Taking this as a challenge for personal excellence, I have decided to aim for a perfect score.</p>

<p>My original score was 690/580/590 (m/w/cr)
I have divided my preparation into 3 parts: preparing and perfecting each of the three sections (reading, writing and math).</p>

<p>Since starting my preparation a week back, I've taken about 10 full math portion tests from the various prep books I've and I'm constantly scoring above 750. My plan to convert this figure into 800 is to go back to all the questions I did wrong and scrutinizing them.</p>

<p>I started critical reading 2 days ago. And my scores for the last 6 tests are as follows: 670-770, 660-760, 680, 710, 700, 670-770. I'm slightly confused as to how I should treat a score of 670-770, as 670 or 770? Any help will be much appreciated. I've also noticed the need to finish the 25 minutes cr sections on time. Another observation is that I'm able to score much better with a fresher mind.</p>

<p>Here's how many typical cr section goes: 2-3 minutes on sentence completions, 6-8 minutes on short passages and the remaining 15 minutes on long passages in which 5 minutes go in reading them, I find 10 minutes very less for predicting the right answer and filling the bubbles. Any help in this department is also much appreciated</p>

<p>I will start the writing section in another 8 days (on 22nd April). Till then I inted to raise my math and cr score to consecutive 800s.</p>

<p>Any help,suggestions, input would be greatly appreciated. The books I'm using are: the "Blue" book, kaplan, petersons, princeton and barron's 2400.</p>

<p>Oh and by the way, my SAT date is on the 7th of may.</p>

<p>EDIT: I've increased my study hours since the last two days to an average of 6 hours 30 minutes (it becomes quite tiring, giving tests of the same type over and over again (like 4 cr tests in a row!) So, should I increase my practice time more? (I desperately feel so, considering my goal of a perfect score) is 8-10 hours a day any better? (Difficult, but nonetheless, achieveable)</p>

<p>I think that practice tests are my best bet, just keep on practising and improve on previous mistakes.</p>

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<p>Honestly, going from an 1860 to 2300+ (not to mention 2400) is highly unlikely, if not impossible - especially by May 7th. I mean, I am trying to improve from a 2230 the first time, and it becomes much harder to improve once your score gets higher. Aiming high is admirable, but more realistic goals may not leave you as disappointed.</p>

<p>Good luck in your studies.</p>

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<p>Thanks Metrical, after reading your post, I decided to test whether my aim was just fanciful imagination or concreted towards something real. As soon as I got up today I put to use my skills acquired over the last 1 and a half week. Under timed conditions, I undertook the math and CR part of the paper (6 sections) and scored myself.</p>

<p>I’m ecstatic to report that I got my first ever 800 on the math section (all 54 correct) and scored a respectable 670-770 on my CR (Improvement is slow… hehe)
that gives me a potential 1470-1570/1600.</p>

<p>Considering I’m starting practicing the writing part from 22nd onwards, this seems a good improvement, doesn’t it?</p>

<p>Though I’ve to make sure that I don’t become complacent about this test as it might just be good luck. So I’ll continue to keep taking tests.</p>

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<p>Here’s an update to my histrionics (as I like to see them :wink: )</p>

<p>I’ve done:</p>

<p>1)Both volumes of Direct Hits 2010
2)Finished all the Blue Book Tests
3)Completed preparation of the Math and Critical Reading portion of the SAT.
4)Gave my first full-timed CB online test (printed out on paper) just a few minutes ago.</p>

<p>I’m glad to share with the rest of the CC community that I’ve improved immensely over the past 2 weeks and benefited from all the experienced users pointers here. Without further ado, here are the scores of my first full-timed test.</p>

<p>Math: 800 (0 wrong)
Critical Reading: 790 (2 wrong)
Writing: 450 (14 wrong, no essay)</p>

<p>The last section’s a bit shameful <em>embarrassed</em> But that is with very little preparation <em>blushes</em> I’m hoping I could improve on it, and anyone out here who could help would have my deepest tanks :)</p>

<p>Considering my January SAT score of Math:690, CR:570, Writing:590; I’m hopeful about the May SAT will relentlessly continue towards my goal :)</p>