<p>Whats the best way to prep for the SAT?
All SAT programs, like Princeton Review SAT prep Center, or Ellite, or any programs seem really useless, although I'm horrible in SAT (1440)</p>
<p>Also, do you guys know where you can get explanations for the answers in the CollegeBoard SAT blue book????? Thanks.</p>
<p>Those SAT programs aren’t useless - they do help, but you HAVE to put in effort. Just keep practicing and you’ll eventually get that higher score. SAT is about practice, practice, practice. </p>
<p>I believe that the answers are in the blue book.</p>
<p>Answers are in the blue book, but the explanations can be found on the CollegeBoard website. </p>
<p>Just read the stickies in this forum, and search around the threads. I guarantee you that you’ll find some useful information. SAT Programs aren’t useless, but for the smart student they really aren’t the most efficient way to prepare, especially considering the costliness of some of them. </p>
<p>The Blue Book is your best bet, as long as you make sure you carefully go over every answer you got wrong and even each answer you got right by guessing or eliminating most of the answer choices. Study vocab, particularly the ones found in Direct Hits. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>1440? you need some professional help, join one of those prep courses and put in effort and I can guarantee improvements. Studies have shown that the incentives of paying money upfront for a course pushes students to achieve at a higher level, due to the fact that there is money on the line. You gotta spend money to make money, as the old saying goes, your future depends on these test, invest in it now before the opportunity is lost.</p>
<p>Well money might be a motivation for some to improve, but there are plenty of students whose parents pay tuition that don’t care as much as they should considering the amount of money going into their education. It depends on the individual, and whether or not they’re determined enough to improve their score. If you are, then you’ll definitely improve in either path you take: prep course or no prep course. </p>
<p>Someone with an SAT score below average might benefit from a tutor/classes, but there is rarely a trick or piece of advise that they could provide you that you can’t find on CC. Improving your score involves only discipline and practice.</p>
<p>I will try to make this as short as possible.</p>
<p>I improved about 200 points by:
-reviewing simple grammar rules
-practicing the essay under timed conditions, daily
-being more analytical with CR questions
-doing a few practice tests, while saving the ones from the Blue Book last</p>
<p>Section-Specific TIPS*****</p>
<p>MATH: easiest section to improve on. Get your hands on a Barron’s SAT book and just do all the Math sections only. You’ll get better, guaranteed.</p>
<p>CR (Critical Reading): ONLY select an answer choice if every, single part of it is correct/can be inferred/can be backed up by textual evidence. I cannot stress this enough! Also, be sure to read the little italicized blurb before each passage as it can tell you a lot about what you’re going to read. It can also help you with “main idea” type questions. </p>
<p>WRITING: review simple grammar rules. Ask your English teacher to see if they have grammar sheets (I’m sure they do) and review them. Especially pay attention to rules like subject-verb agreement and etc. As for the essay, the longer the better (most ppl would disagree with this and say “oh that’s not necessarily true”-they’re wrong. The longer the better, but you obviously have to write coherently and have no spelling/grammar errors while providing okay to good examples).</p>
<p>Become familiar with the rules of each section-you DO NOT want to waste your time reading these! </p>
<p>Also, don’t waste your time trying to determine which section is experimental-it doesn’t even matter. You can’t find it and you don’t know which section is experimental (i.e. doesn’t count for marks), so just do your best on EVERY section.</p>
<p>LAST BUT NOT LEAST: <strong><em>bring a WATCH on test date</em></strong> It will save you. Be watchful of the time at all times lol</p>
<p>ONE LAST TIP:
DO NOT (absolutely do not do this) answer all the questions, then leave bubbling until last minute. NO. Instead, you should answer a page or two of questions, circle your choices, an then bubble in that set. This way, you will not skip bubbling any questions.</p>
<p>It is with my personal experience (I took the SAT Reasoning twice) that I don’t have time at the end of each section to go back and REALLY analyze DEEPLY the questions that I’m suck at. So, make sure you read each questions VERY VERY CAREFULLY and in a reasonable amount of time, select what you think is the BEST answer choice (there may be more than 1 CORRECT answer, but always pick the BEST answer-you’ll get better at doing this with practice. I promise!)</p>
<p>lol so much for being a short post…</p>