<p>Hey guys, I have been singed up to take the SAT this June.
These are the books/materials I have purchased so far:</p>
<p>Direct Hits (Volumes 1 and 2)
Grubers Complete SAT
Blue Book (edition 1)
Princeton Review SAT 2009
SAT Online Course</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone can guide me on how to pace myself for prepping for the SATs in June??? I really want to get a score in the range of 2000-2100</p>
<p>please help!</p>
<p>What is your base score? Which section is your strongest and which section is your weakest?</p>
<p>Is this your first time taking the SAT?</p>
<p>Stop buying stuff, first of all. You’ll barely get through all of it by June. Start now; you have less than 6 weeks. BB is best because it’s from CB, IMO. Start there, read through it, do the interspersed reviews (I’m assuming these exist? I have the second edition, never seen a first edition BB). That should take a week. I believe BB has 7 tests. Hold off on those for the time being - I’d save the material most faithful to the SAT for the end.</p>
<p>After reading through BB to get familiar with the questions, learn the (exceptionally helpful) pointers and ways to solve questions, start churning through the other books. I’ve heard Gruber’s is decent - do its diagnostic, then start going through the exams every other day or so, maybe twice on weekend. There’s 5 of them, so this should take a week, maybe a day or two more. <4 weeks to go.</p>
<p>Rewinding a week to before you start Gruber’s. On your light days, or at night, or around school, or whenever, start with the vocab in Direct Hits 2 (I’ve heard DH2 is a plus one to DH1, basically. So DH1 is redundant here, or am I mistaken?). Take it in sets of 10 or 15 - there’s 200 words right?</p>
<p>Back to once you get through Gruber’s, breeze through Princeton. It’s an easy, almost too vague book. Look through the tips/pointers/explanations of topics, then go through the tests quickly. We should have slightly less than 3 weeks to go, and your scores should be trending higher.</p>
<p>Last three weeks, go through the 10 SAT online exams/the ones in BB (I believe they overlap). And keep up with DH.</p>
<p>If you feel overwhelmed, forget Princeton Review. Still too much? Drop Gruber’s. It’d be a waste of money, but whatever gets it done. Stick to the CB stuff and DH. They’re all good.</p>
<p>Don’t stick to this literally; it’s a 5 minute sketch of how I’d attack it.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>