<p>I mean they put a bunch of stuff on the Princeton Review practice tests in math that I do not even get while Collegeboard is not so strict and actually puts the easy math questions first unlike princeton review which puts the difficult and tricky math questions all over the place.</p>
<p>If I score in the 1860s on the princeton review practice tests, how much will I be able to score on the real SAT?</p>
<p>Why don’t you find out?
Take a PR test, and compare your results with those of your CB practice tests. You should have a pretty good idea after doing so.</p>
<p>I’ve done multiple PR tests and multiple real SAT tests, and there’s really no comparison. Numerically, you can’t add/subtract a specific amount to your PR score. I believe they’re close though. There’s much more variability going on than to just compare one PR test to one real test and base it off that.</p>
<p>I have taken 8 collegeboard practice tests and I usually score in the 2000s and 1900s on those, I have taken 6 Princeton Review practice tests and I score on the high 1700s and low 1800s on those. I know when I took my first Princeton Review practice test I made a 1520 but on the real SAT I made a 1710.</p>
<p>You’re not crazy!! This happened to me too! Well not exactly same situation but I just took a practice one and got like way normal than I got my first time taking the actual SAT and i was like OH NO did I just get lucky taking the SAT? but then I realized how I have always gotten around what I got on the actual SAT and this was my first time taking the one in princeton review. i dont like the book either, they get weird advice like “dont actually read the passages” does that bother anyone else haha and plus it has all these weird systems of figuring out answers, like circling and underlining everything and using weird symbols… like that would take five minutes for each questions. im not a fan, i think i will just use collegeboard books</p>
<p>haha oh wow, i just seemed oddly bitter and resentful toward princeton review SAT books haahhahaha</p>
<p>Well you don’t really read the whole passage, you just read as you go and pay attention to the lines they ask you to refer to.</p>
<p>I’ve found maths problems from neither the CB tests nor the PR tests quite a challenge to me because I’m simply well-trained for maths. I only care about the critical reading section, which is my weakest link. In general I can get mid-700+s in the PR book but I never reached 700 in real tests.</p>
<p>Yes, well what you are saying is true, but what about questions that are main idea questions, like “what was the authors purpose” or like when it asks the overall tone, or how author of passage one would feel about the message of passage 2, those kind of things. Dont you think it is necessary to read it all and know the theme of the passage to answer a lot of those? Im not saying you’re wrong i’m really genuinely wondering cause i’ve heard a few people give that tip, but it never seemed like a good idea to me. Do you think that it really is unnecessary to read the entire thing and it would be more beneficial to skim the passage, paying closer attention to the lines that are asked about and then have more time to answer questions? I dont know. I always wonder if I should pay attention to these kinds of tips, or if I should just do exactly what I did the first time, nd what I am used to doing, which is just reading it all. has anyone on here taken the SAT multiple times? If so, how much have your scores gone up, or changed? I took the SAT once and did not study that time and got 2100 (630 math 670 critical reading 800 writing) and really need to bring it up for the colleges I want to get into. I am wondering if I could bring it up 50-100 points? I know thats a lot but has anyone here done so?</p>