<p>I've taken a few practice SAT tests and my scores have been about a 1640. I took these tests prior to the october 2009 psat. Unfortunately I scored a 1530 on the psat. I had a 520 in math, 500 in critical reading, and a 510 in writing. I really wanna increase my score.
My goal is to get above a 1200 in math and reading and to hopefully obtain an overall score of at least 1800. I'm a bright guy, I'm motivated and I'm willing to work hard to reach my goal. Please give me the best advice you can. Would any of you recommend attending a princeton review SAT class.</p>
<p>Okay, first of all I recommend you to not to take a princeton review class (none of their strategies are really that great IMO) and I think you would be wasting your time in doing so. Secondly, to improve- I think most of it is practice, practice practice. You should practice with the blue book and THROUGHLY go over the questions you got wrong and even the ones you got right to make sure you really understand what’s going on.</p>
<p>Section wise:
For the math section do a whole bunch of questions and review concepts that you’re not sure about ( get a barron’s sat book or something)
For the reading, I think the major consensus on here is do practice tests, review vocab and get faster?
For the writing section, review all the grammar rules (there’s like 12?) and do practice problems. </p>
<p>my own personal score:
I went from a 1770 (Cr,m,W)- (620, 590, 560) to a 1960 (630, 680, 650). Even though that’s lower than the majority of 2200+s on here, I feel pretty good about a almost 200 pt increase.</p>
<p>Xiggi’s method probably the best way to study to increase your score, check it out its a sticky</p>
<p>also if you want my personal I went from 1860 - 2300; i just did two practice tests out of the New Blue Book lmao</p>
<p>I never read through my SAT prep book. I just did all of the practice tests I could find, learned from my mistakes, and took more. You can find free ones all over the internet. I must have gone through at least ten, maybe more, over the month I spent prepping and, doing that, I got an 800r/710m/800w on my first, and only, actual test. The math kind of disappointed, but I was happy enough with my overall score that I let it be. </p>
<p>The SAT is a very predictable test. The more familiar you are with the problems and concepts it favors, the better you will do. </p>
<p>Good luck. :)</p>