<p>I need help in studying for the ACT and SAT. School starts monday the 21st for me and im trying to build a schedule I can do everyday. Here is my schedule most likely:</p>
<p>7:30 wake up
8:45-3:45 School
3:45-5:15 cross country or track practice
5:30-6:15 practice pullups, situps, pushups, basketball throw and shuttle run for air force academy
6:30-7:00 Dinner
7:00-8:30 hopefully homework if I dont have too much
8:30 - ~ study for Act or SAT
10:30 ~ 11:15 - somewhere in there hit the hay</p>
<p>I need help in writing and critical reading for the SAT and Just about everything for ACT because I want to score high. I need help in deciding what to study each night to get the better bang for my buck. All help is appreciated. Thanks for your time.</p>
<p>I'm also a XC and track runner, so I know the pain you go through bro. </p>
<p>Hey how's the Air Force Academy and what do you do, like in terms of physical and possibly academic stuff? How many pushups, situps, pullups, and miles do you run? I'm thinking of doing that sort of stuff later on so yeah.</p>
<p>Im not in the Air Force Academy, I'm training for it. As far as what I do, I do about 300 pushups a night along with 500 situps, then I run 3-4 miles a day. I do about 30 Pullups a day just to keep progressing forward. I would just like some help in what to study each night, like focusing on a certain subject each night.</p>
<p>If I were you I would study solely CR, Writing, or Math for one day. So 2 hours each day of just one subject, preferably with practice tests. Then on the weekends you can possibly do a full test, and then revise it and go over mistakes. That's what I would do. But make sure you don't take too many full practice tests because it'll wear you down before test day. Section by Sectino is much better. Like all 3 CR sections per day, then next day 3 Sections of writing, then next day 3 sections of math. good luck.</p>
<p>I agree with etti, about doing one type a day. For the math I found that strong basic algebra and geonetry goes a long way, so if/when you run out of math material you could do that. I'm using some old textbook I found laying around. I'm not sure what it is... all it says is "College Algebra" on the front, and I am learning some stuff I didn't know. I had a very bad algebra teacher...</p>
<p>How the hell do you only have 1.5 hrs of hw? Unless you only have like 1 or 2 APs? I would suggest stretching your schedule. Sleep is important, BUT not as important as academics (lol). Sleeping at 11 is way too early. You have people here doing homework till 1, 2 am in the morning. Maybe stretch it to 12am?</p>
<p>Get all the sleep you can, because you are in for four years without enough of it! I know from experience that sleep is critical to maintaining your fitness and health.</p>
<p>First of all, SAT isn't that big deal. All you need is to find strategy that works for you and attempt to search a way to improve your score. One thing for high score is that you must attempt every single question. This must be your first thing in SAT preparation. If you cannot do this, your hard practice won't work very effective since you may omit questions that you could've answered.</p>
<p>Second, I suggest going bed late for academy. For instance, I know I'm not that hard training but in fall, I play soccer. Last year, I played both JV and Varsity so that's about 4 hours of soccer with almost no breaks (I didn't play full Varsity though). But when I got home, I started to work on my homework from 10:00 and couple occasions, I went bed at 2:30. Then I practice again next day right after school. You have to be able to do this and I don't see why you can't. Getting yourself in shape is important but good academic ability is vital as well.</p>
<p>Third, about the weekends, don't just sit there all day for SAT. Instead, see if you can do some community services for Air Force Academy (I'm not sure what kind of community services you can do; work as a National Guard?) and get some hours. As I said in beginning, SAT may lower your chance in admission but if you're good all-around, not-so-good SAT score may be covered.</p>
<p>Fourth, talk to your college admissioner and see what's the minimum score required. This will be helpful on modifying schedule.</p>
<p>yea I agree with gray falcon about giong ot bed later. When it comes down to how much you want this SAT, you might have to sacrifice some snooze time. For a short period of time going to bed shouldn't be too detrimental to your health. I suggest this b/c you seem like a very active person and have lots of Ec's- which is great b/c it will help your app- but it's taking up lots of time on the weekdays. Can you get up earlier to do your hw/study for SAT's. I used to do it in my Jnr year (get up at 6 am) to study for my AP exams in the spring. Doing SAt's 1st thing in the morning also is good b/c it's the first activity you do so your mind is fresh. Just some suggestions.</p>