<p>Current High Schoolers, College Students, and Grads feel free to give other High Schoolers your invaluable advice :)</p>
<p>Is there anything specific you want to know about, before I start rambling and pretending to know more than I do?</p>
<p>Depends what kind of experience you are looking for:</p>
<p>The guy who wants to go to an elite college(most likely)
or
The guy who wants to enjoy life</p>
<p>Work smart, not hard. Also remember that knowing people beats just knowing facts. Ask yourself each day: are you making contact, or are you making connections? </p>
<p>College student.</p>
<p>You’ll hear “connections” a lot more in college.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on SAT Prepping and such</p>
<p>Practice tests. I don’t have any specific prep book recommendations, but get one of those giant books with ten practice tests in it and take them all. In my experience, ACT practice tests will help (some) with the SAT and vice versa. If you want to buy a prep book, look at the public library first. Sometimes they’ll be a little outdated, but I think most prep books are basically the same, except that some have more practice questions than others. My SAT score and ACT score were (mostly) comparable, so I don’t differentiate between the two tests as much as some people do. But some people find one test easier than the other, so you should take both. I’ve decided I like the SAT more because they have you write the essay when you first go in. With the ACT, they make you write it at the end after you’re brain-dead. </p>
<p>For grammar-related questions, I found it most useful to try to develop an intuition for when stuff “sounded wrong” rather than trying to memorize grammar rules. But a few of the more obscure rules can be memorized (like when adjectives should be hyphenated…I saw a question on that once). </p>
<p>For vocab, I like [Free</a> Rice](<a href=“http://www.freerice.com%5DFree”>http://www.freerice.com). Learning Latin and Greek roots will also help.</p>
<p>Thanks! Can I study exclusively for the SAT, but take the ACT also and do well?</p>
<p>I studied for the ACT but not the SAT (very much) and did well on both, but there are differences between the tests and some people are affected by them.</p>