<p>I think that by senior year you can easily raise that 2080 to 2280 or higher. Easily.</p>
<p>Oh no. 2280 isn’t very good at all. I tried again today and I already got a 2160. My goal is to get a 2400 by junior year, or possibly by the end of my sophomore year.</p>
<p>2280 is very, very good. By the time you get into the 2300s any differences in admissions probability caused by scores will largely be negligible, assuming your score distribution is fairly even. You really don’t need a 2400 (and with that said, it’s still entirely possible that you’ll get one!).</p>
<p>I got an 1880 as a frosh and a 2400 as a junior. If you’re getting 2080 as a soph, I’d say that you’ll be just fine.</p>
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<p>You’ve made me more confident for the January test: if I have the same freshman-to-junior additive improvement, I’ll get a 2790. :)</p>
<p>monstor344: How did you study to improve your SAT from 1880 to 2400. My son did practice test got 1950 in 9th grade and took test in Junior year is 2270. Now he is planning to take one more time test, but it sounds very hard to break 2350. Could you please give him some suggetions?</p>
<p>Admittedly, I’m somewhat a late bloomer; I don’t think anyone ought to expect the increase I experienced. But there are a few things your son can do to increase that 2270. I need to know where his weakness is; if the 2270 is balanced then frankly it comes down to a good night’s sleep and maybe going over a few practice reading sections in the BB (the CR score varies the least with luck; you’ll need to “manually” budge this one up).</p>
<p>Thanks so much monstor! </p>
<p>I was just told by a friend that a 2280 isn’t very good when you’re looking at Dartmouth or Harvard. </p>
<p>I guess a 2340 is more than fine for my needs, though a 2400 wouldn’t be a gloomy thing. :D</p>
<p>Thanks again! Any more advice, anyone?</p>
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<p>A 2280 yields decent chances at any college (assuming everything else is in order). 2340 and 2400 are obviously better and thus yield a higher chance than does 2280, but a score that high is far from necessary.</p>
<p>I find that my SAT Subjects were FAR better than Reasoning – 700 CR 680M vs. 770 Lit 790 Maths. I think it might have something to do with my concentration span. So my question is:</p>
<p>What do you do to prepare for the test in terms of food and hours of sleep etc …?</p>
<p>Plus, would the SAT subjects somewhat compensate for low reasoning scores?</p>
<p>I only got a perfect score on two sections (darn you, mathematics!) so I can only talk about those.</p>
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I studied Latin for 3 years and I found it way more helpful than all the vocabulary that I ever learned from reading Nabokov. But it’s best to learn vocab in these sort of effortless ways, from reading, from absorbing stuff in class. My friend, who is very intelligent, had an 800 on math, and 700+ o the other sections, memorizes vocab from note cards, and legit studies. When I visited her in the summer, I easily defined every word she had on her 200+ note cards. I bet I had a lot more fun learning the words too.
En plus: My chem teacher tells us all the time that he’s super jeal we get to study Latin. Back when he took the SAT forever ago, he didn’t do so well the first time. He took a 3 month Latin class, and his CR score increased dramatically.</p>
<p>I think there’s definitely a degree of chance. The only scores I’ve ever gotten in writing (since 8th grade, that is) are 650 and 800. Sophomore PSAT: 65. Junior PSAT: 80. Jan SAT: 650. May SAT: 800. I think it has to be a little bit random as I’ve never done significant study and 150 points should not just go back and forth like that.</p>
<p>For Math, I have no idea how to do well. When I wanted to do well on the Subject test, I studied a ton and got a ton of calculator programs. My friend who got an 800 is probably better at math than I am, though it’s difficult to say because I’m a year ahead of her, but she studies for standardized tests.</p>
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<p>I’m actually quite healthy in general on Friday nights/Saturday mornings. I go to sleep at 10:30, wake between 7 and 8, often without the aid of an alarm, and eat oatmeal (not the Quaker microwavable sort, but a kind that isn’t sugar laden) for breakfast. So I do my normal Saturday morning things, but since the test starts at 8, I roll everything back a bit. Oh, and I take some granola bars, again, not the kind stuffed with sugar/HFCS, and water so I don’t get hungry. And sometimes a little candy as a reward :D.</p>
<p>That curve can really be tricky… on my first attempt I got a 2300 with 710 writing, because of two missed MC and a 7 essay. The second time I got a 2400, with no missed MC in writing but still only an 8 essay.</p>
<p>I was also fortunate enough not to have to worry so much about vocab… I took Kaplan’s prep book and started going through the 500-word list in the back, but only got to the I’s or so before my first test. That test didn’t have any of the words I studied from that.</p>
<p>Ravenbelle, I never really worried about the food and hours of sleep… I don’t think I’ve given myself a good night’s sleep before any standardized test in the year 2009, but then I operate better that way for some reason. Depends on how sensitive you are to that I suppose.</p>
<p>Um, I guess I can see a Math subject test compensating a bit for the Reasoning math score, but nothing else really.</p>
<p>Yea strangely, I felt really stressed from my first SAT, developed a headache halfway through, and desperately needed to sleep after it. For my second sitting I was completely fine. But I had only improved 70 points!</p>
<p>at the end of my sophomore year i took a practice SAT and scored 2140. a few months later in my junior year i scored a 2370 (two MC wrong in the reading passages) with absolutely no extra prep. I have no idea why my score jumped 230 points.</p>
<p>my only suggestion is to get a good nights sleep and don’t stress too much about it. I took this SAT with the mindset that i was going to take it twice more, so i was relatively relaxed and didn’t feel a ton of pressure. I feel it was this that really positively influenced my performance.</p>
<p>College board practice tests en mass and word lists really help.</p>
<p>Good thread. The answer really depends, though, on whether you have a magic crystal ball or not.</p>
<p>I scored a 2400 on the SAT. There is no way to guarantee the score. I believe you need at least a little bit of luck on your side!</p>
<p>I didn’t study any vocab, and there was not one vocab question on the SAT that I was nervous about. It may have been just luck.</p>
<p>There is a way to guarantee a 2400 on the SAT. Get all of the questions right.</p>
<p>^ Nope, getting all of the questions right with say a 7 on the Essay will not get you a 2400.</p>
<p>I’ll try to make my response short and simple. The short answer is yes it is possible to get a perfect score. Just study very hard. Give yourself at least six months for preparation. Dont just do practice questions or exercises. You need to first make sure that you understand the fundamental of both math and english. Then do all the practice tests. Trust me, that’s all there is to it. If you want to learn the fundamentals, all my students use the set of math and verbal book by EZ Solutions as this is the only and most comprehensive source. The best way to get hands on the practice questions is by getting the college board official guide. If you apply this strategy, you’ll have a pretty good chances at scoring 2400 or close to it.</p>