Bombed the May SAT need to raise score

<p>Let me just say I wasnt happy w/ my May SAT. I got a 1520 and I'm an excellent student who wants to go ivy, so of course, I was dissapointed.
I got a 540 for CR, 400 M, and 580 W. I need to raise my score 480 or just round it to five hundred points. But it was my first time taking it.
So i just have a few questions and I will be very gratefull if you can help me</p>

<p>1- Can I raise my score by 500 points for the next SAT?
2- Do you have Any stories of raising your score? What did you do? Etc
3- What suggestions do you think I should do? What books to get, should I take a couse, etc?</p>

<p>oh my goodness...how can you call yourself a excellent student when your grades do not show that...no offence but i don't think you have any hope</p>

<p>my grades do show that i rank 5 in my class, I have a high GPA, and I have tons of awards. i just didnt do well on the SAT thats all. Some ppl dont do good on a stressfull test such as the SAT so dont tell me that I dont have hope, dont assume stuff you know nothing about.</p>

<p>i'm in a similar situation. Maybe we need to do the ACT in the fall? I bought a kaplan book of 12 tests. I will do all of them and see how I do. If I am sucking. ill just take the ACT i guess.</p>

<p>do the ACT. if you really are an excellent student and want to go to an ivy league school then you need to get a 30 or above on the ACT. and take AP courses/tests (and get 5's) because otherwise your GPA won't be worth much, no matter how high it is.</p>

<p>People here really can't answer that question for you. You have to figure out for yourself why your scores are so low compared to your grades. If, in fact, you are one of the top in the grade, there is very little reason why your scores should be around average for the nation. The SAT is just a test, like the ones you take and apparently do so well on in school. There is no reason to feel like it is too stressful. You can relax. Practice, be well prepared, and just take it. Don't feel pressured during the test to get your score to a certain spot. Just think about the question you're on and not the final result of the test. Relax, practice, and you'll be fine...plus you have the whole summer to prepare for the next one :)</p>

<p>On taking ACT because of poor SAT scores:</p>

<p>I'm not sure that's the best way to go. You're going to have to take some SAT subject tests. Unless I'm mistaken (and I could be on this), you'll have to submit all your SAT scores together - including the reasoning test scores - so the university will see that you took the ACT because you didn't do well on the SAT. If I were in your shoes (and I am to some extent - 640 math SAT, even though I'm great at math, taking calc II & III next year, and got 800 in the math subject test), I'd do major prep and re-take the SAT.</p>

<p>Don't worry. I got a 1420. Way lower than yours. That's why we have the summer to prep. x]</p>

<p>Yea...practicse, practise, and practise! Crack the Oct. SATI!</p>

<p>Most schools do not require SAT2s if you take the ACT</p>

<p>Practice practice practice.</p>

<p>Sign up for Question of the Day and do it every day - I aced the sections it tests you on. That just shows the benefit of practice.</p>

<p>Buy the official Collegeboard blue book and do the eight practice papers at the back. Don't bother trying to learn material - just work on where you went wrong and remember your mistakes.</p>

<p>For the essays - it's easy to get full marks by sticking to a rigid formula. I did crap on mine but a good website is <a href="http://www.sparknotes.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sparknotes.com&lt;/a> - look for their SAT prep advice on essays. Also look at the examples of 6's in the blue book and on the website, and try and emulate those.</p>

<p>I did great on the things I practiced a lot (basically.. Question of the Day) and crap on the other stuff (Maths, writing - essays). It's the best way to improve your score.</p>

<p>Is SATI more popular than ACT? My counsellor suggests me to retake SATI because the colleges will look at the highest score in each section you got if you take SATI more than once.</p>

<p>"oh my goodness...how can you call yourself a excellent student when your grades do not show that...no offence but i don't think you have any hope"</p>

<p>I tend to agree with what tribal said. Why did you find the test stressful? Haven't you taken other timed tests? I am no expert on ivy league colleges but they certainly have plenty of timed tests that are harder than the SAT.
How did you feel after you took the test? Did you think you did good or did you feel like you had bombed it?</p>

<p>i got my may score back and i recieved a 2060(720Cr,720Wr,620m)
I am taking the test on saturday nin order to raise my math grade. I am extremely happy about where my CR and Wr scores are.</p>

<p>Should i bomb those sections on the test and focus on the math?</p>

<p>I wouldn't purposly bomb them, put a some effort into them but so much that you wear yourself out for math.</p>

<p>for cr and wr i dont wanna end up wit 200s but what would be a reasonable decrease that wont alert colleges</p>

<p>anyone have advice?</p>

<p>heres some advice: get ur own thread</p>

<p>"oh my goodness...how can you call yourself a excellent student when your grades do not show that...no offence but i don't think you have any hope"</p>

<p>and</p>

<p>"I tend to agree with what tribal said."</p>

<p>you guys are idiots. do you not realize the invalidity of standardized tests? This is coming from someone who didn't bomb it, so I'm not just defending myself. The SAT does not determine intelligence in any way, shape, or form. You must be misguided by your mommies and daddies who said you were the most bestest kid in the world because you scored high. Give me a break. Tell me: does your view of the connotative relationship between intelligence and standardized testing soothe your socially battered ego?</p>

<p>She said she wants to go to an Ivy and was dissappointed with her scores. How on earth would that trigger you to insult and bash her even more?</p>

<p>Christ I hate pretentious number driven ****heads.</p>

<p>Ivybaby, good luck next time.</p>

<p>You say this to defend Ivybaby???? The world is number driven and if you can't get good numbers in real life you just aren't going to make it. Then you call us the babies who had our parents tell us we were the best... where did that come from? Ivybaby is the one who thinks she is smart (told by parents??? - she seemed rather confident in her post that she was very smart, she has a "high gpa" which happens to be a 3.6??? what kind of high school has a 5th ranked person with a 3.6 gpa?) but is surprised that she scored badly on a test like this. I agree that the SAT is not a great test of one's intelligence but it cannot be all that horrible if every single college and university in the country uses it as a large determing factor as to wether or not someone will be accepted. For so many colleges to use it, it must be able to measure something that the colleges think will make a student succesful. Maybe the colleges use it because it is a "stressfull" test and want to see if a student will be able to hold up in college. So to answer you question, no I do not understand the invalidity of standardized tests(unless they are used to measure someones intelligence. By intelligence I mean someones raw logical reasoning skills, something that would be better tested by an IQ test which also happens to be a standardized test. Actually almost all meaningful test could be considered standardized if you say that a standardized test is a test that is measures someones someones knowledge or aptitude of something using the same technique across the country). </p>

<p>Also I did not mean to insult Ivybaby but just to inform her that she did not have much of a chance of getting into an ivy league school unless her scores increase drastically in the next 5 or 6 months. The one throwing around insults is you:
"you guys are idiots"
"I hate pretentious number driven ****heads"
"You must be misguided..."</p>