<p>^^ Sorry but that is misleading. It is hard to get above a 2100, no matter if you are a bright student. People with 4.0 gpa have gotten 1700’s. Do you now 2100 is 93-95% percentile? That means only 7% did better then a 2100. </p>
<p>Many people who get above a 2100 without prep is pure luck, or either there einstein genius. I wouldn’t believe too many people who say they got a 2300 without prep. </p>
<p>For silverturtle to get a 2400, he needed prep. 2100 might not need prep, but it is still not as easy as you say. You might be blinded by the CC fever. Only the smartest people would come to this forum to tell about there scores (2100, 2200, or 2300+) and not many people with 1500, 1600 would actually come. There are some brave people with low scores to talk about it in CC, but not many. So by you seeing all those 2100+ you are blinded by thinking a 2100+ is common and easy.</p>
<p>Actually, if someone were to score 2100, he or she would be in approximately the 97th percentile.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t go that far. Among those who score 2100+ with no preparation, I expect that there are thousands of people who are talented at standardized tests and are indeed smart, but who do not rise to the level of genius in most people’s eyes.</p>
<p>It’s all practice. Seriously. Think of it like a sport. Practice = familiar/good. Try it. I went from 1670 to 2050 with not even that much. If I had hardcore practiced, I could have done 2200+ probably.</p>
<p>I disagree with 2100 without prep = einstein
Although my first score wasn’t 2100, all it took was some caution the next time for 2100. People who are good test takers (for example, prone to getting straight A’s in school) and at least adequate in the subject material can definitely get an average of 700 in each section. For me I had amazing English and Math teachers in school so the the Writing and Math questions were easy, it was a matter of having the discipline to not make mistakes. </p>
<p>But those who get 800 CR or so are probably lifetime readers who read books instead of watch anime and play videogames.</p>
<p>Back to OP relevancy.
Recently I practice scored 800’s in math and writing, but my lowest score ever for reading 690. Pretty much I took practice tests and reviewed them, and each time I made a mistake I would ask myself WHY I made the mistake and HOW I could avoid it the next test. Subconsciously my self-advice will kick in the next practice test.</p>
<p>I watch anime and play videogames pretty regularly and I’ve been scoring consistent 800s on CR on official practice tests. I don’t see where the connection lies between those two areas. Sure many people have gotten 800 CRs because they are lifetime readers (I’m not saying I’m not an avid reader myself) but many others have gotten an 800 CR simply because they approached the section in the right way.</p>
<p>I’m an oddball- my score freshman year was a 1740, and a year later I scored a 2180. I’m sure it had a lot to do with the preparation factor, though: I’d only taken one practice test before I took it in 9th grade, whereas in 10th grade, I had taken all the official practice tests in the Blue Book and found my own strategies that work best for me.</p>
<p>I think the best way to prepare is to do it on your own. This is much easier said than done: the majority of students don’t have the patience and diligence to sit down for hours on end and train themselves to raise their score. Prep courses and the like do nothing, IMHO. I firmly believe that, if you put in a good amount of self-initiative, your score will rise a substantial amount. Keep in mind, though, that ‘substantial’ varies from person to person. Self-preparation raised my score by over 400 points- it won’t do that for most people.</p>
<p>800 on your first try? Wow. I envy you. I guess you’re just a naturally good reader.</p>
<p>The connection I was thinking of is that if you’ve read books in the time that you normally spend playing videogames and anime for your entire life, you would have far greater reading comprehension and vocabulary and therefore score high scores easily. Not saying that videogames + anime will harm your score, I mean I’ve gotten quite a bit of vocabulary from this.</p>
<p>^^Also depends on what the person scored initially. If the person begins at a 2070, s/he will have a much more difficult time working his/her score up than a person who begins at a 1600.</p>
<p>Agreed. Also, the difference between mid-freshman year and end of sophomore year is very large- during that period, I took Algebra II, wrote many essays, and interpreted difficult literary texts. So a freshman with a 1700 is obviously far more likely to get a big boost a year later than a junior with a 1700.</p>
<p>During Freshman year, I scored an 1870; now after 5 PR tests, spread throughout from January to end of July (I think I did like a section a day and reviewed), I scored a 2190 on a BB test. I haven’t even taken Algebra 2 yet either I’m a rising sophomore so yeah. But my Math is only like 710-740. My Writing is pretty high(Like MC 45-47) and my CR is like 660-700.</p>
<p>How do you guys get better at the writing MC? I’m stuck at 6-7 wrong per test. I read SparkNotes’s guide on it (although I admit that I haven’t read silverturtle’s grammar guide), which helped get me from 610 to 670-690, but I want to break 700 and start getting 750-800s before October.</p>
<p>For math, I guess I just need to practice more. I know all of the stuff that CB packs into the tests, but I don’t know how to solve some of them in that SAT kind of way. I’m at about 700-720 right now.</p>
<p>CR should continue to go up (540 on my first test, now I can get ~630), and I just bought both DH 2011 volumes, so I’ll be studying those for the next few weeks. I’m also reading a lot more than I used to.</p>
<p>By the way, does silverturtle’s grammar/writing guide actually help bring up writing scores? I’m curious - I want to hear some stories about it. I’ll probably end up reading it anyway, but it just seems like such a lengthy read (sorry, silverturtle!).</p>
<p>@stef1a: I read only the first post of Silverturtle’s writing section guide (appx. 6 pages typed up), and my score went from like 8-9+ wrong per section to 2-4 wrong overall. When I decide to reread Silverturtle’s guide and practice Writing more (I’m currently focusing on CR+M), I think I can cut it down to about 1 wrong or none wrong.</p>
I’m a rising sophomore so yeah. But my Math is only like 710-740. My Writing is pretty high(Like MC 45-47) and my CR is like 660-700.</p>