<p>I'm thinking about drinking coffee before I take the SAT - and it's not the regular hot cup of joe coffee, but a blended ice coffee from Starbuck's - so as to be attentive when I'm taking the test, but I've heard that sometimes, instead of producing a positive effect, drinking coffee can in turn negatively affect you like making you jittery or too excited. I react well to caffeine usually...but should I still drink coffee before the SAT? Usually, I feel "blah" and sleepy and sort of careless and apathetic and I'm hoping by consuming caffeine that my brain will be sharp and concentrate well.</p>
<p>Try it with a practice test and see.</p>
<p>I tried; I couldn’t withstand the polyuric rush from caffeine. :P</p>
<p>If you normally drink coffee than you should drink coffee. If you don’t drink coffee and you think you need to. Do as Silverturtle said.</p>
<p>Try something more powerful. I suggest zipfizz. I doubt it would hurt your score, as long as you drink it the entire time, not just at the beginning.</p>
<p>Pepsi perhaps?</p>
<p>I do the opposite. I toke it before the test because I need to become more relaxed. I would naturally get the jitters.</p>
<p>i once tried drinking coke, and i think my brain crashed lol, it was during a timed-practice exam, so i didn’t try it after that.</p>
<p>so always try it out first before u actually do it on the exam day</p>
<p>I don’t have ideas about real exam, but I tryed Pepsi+Red Bull and all night my feeling was like it’s morning.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t do it. You should just go to bed really early the night before and get up well before you need to leave. That way you have time to fully wake up before the test starts. Also eat something like eggs and a lot of fruit for breakfast so you’re full but also have sugar from the fruit (loool I am kind of making this up as I type it, but that sounds reasonable, doesn’t it?). I drank a red bull right before taking my AP French test and I was SO jittery and hyper and my hands shook a little bit. I think you’d focus better without the caffeine.</p>
<p>yes. Caffeine is good while you are preparing, in the time of preparing.</p>
<p>I heard consuming sugar at a steady pace (An example would be gum?) keeps you alert, because of the sugar content, without making you go crazy. </p>
<p>But, I really don’t get it. I never had a negative effect from coffee. And I don’t drink it too much either.</p>
<p>I ate butterscotch candies during the SAT II exams last June, which worked fine for me; I didn’t feel any negative effect from the sugar. I find chewing gum (which I did during AP exams) to be too tiring after the first 90 minutes. However, eating hard candy is a bit difficult when you don’t want the proctor to catch you opening a wrapper in the middle of the test.</p>
<p>Starbucks Doubleshot (Mocha is the best, vanilla/coffeeflavor will make your stomach upset). Drink it</p>
<p>^^ What did you get on the test? :D</p>
<p>^ How many milligrams of caffeine does it have?</p>
<p>I got 800 Math II, 780 Physics, and 740 French (Reading-Only). I was a bit disappointed with Physics (and still am), but I think the candy helped my performance.</p>
<p>^ :o very noice! i love butterscotch, so i think that i will try that.</p>
<p>I got a 770 on the Math II after drinking 1 and a half doubleshots…just drink one i dont know what i was thinking…</p>
<p>lol this thread is funny</p>
<p>if you’re asking yourself whether you should drink coffee or not for the SAT, you’re probably too anxious/nervous for it already!</p>
<p>just chill and focus on the questions themselves. i think thats how people do their best on the SAT. ;D</p>
<p>if you don’t normally drink coffee then you shouldn’t</p>
<p>you’ll get a high, but after the caffeine wears off is when it can effect you negatively</p>