<p>this is for people who did really good on their SATs..... can u please tell me how u got those scores.... what kind of study techniques u used??? any books???? i'm gonna give my SAT probably next year and i was kinda nervous abt them...... also one more thing.... how did u guys study for the vocab.... </p>
<p>THANKS!!!!!!!!1</p>
<p>who did good?
i think that's a grammatical error, shouldn't it be who did well?
unfortunately, i didn't do well, can't help, sorry :(</p>
<p>What do you consider to be a good SAT score?</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>well on the new one: 2200 to 2400
on the old one : 1400 to 1550</p>
<p>2200not=1400(old)
2100=1400(old)</p>
<p>good will really depend on the percentlles. based on the psats, evryone seems to have done incredibly well on the writing, including those who can't write a coherent paragraph. i guess the essay will fix that.</p>
<p>Oh, OK, then. I didn't really study or anything. I just took it.</p>
<p>focus on math and english!</p>
<p>Frankly speaking, a lot my vocab was what I retained from reading...and a lot from last year when we were forced to do twenty words a week (which was never a lot to me since I was quite good at storing them in my memory). I sort of miss it now since I don't have as much time to read. I think what I'd reccomend is that you talk to your English teacher perhaps and suggest, or even get your parents to suggest, that you do weekly vocabulary quizzes. Trust me, they help. As for prep in general, get the Official Guide. I got it a week ago--and it really helps! Personally, I think the sentence completions have gotten a lot harder and you have to know a wider range of vocabulary (thus, now I'm fretting over that) while on the previous one, you didn't really except for a word maybe that I would be unfamiliar with on the analogies--which wasn't often. The passages have gotten easier, I think, even though reading them can be tedious and boring.
As for math...well...practice, and more practice. That's what I need most of my help in, anyway.
Good luck!!</p>
<p>Math and writing are pretty easy to study for. Writing involves knowing a narrow field of grammar, and having a general sense of what makes a sentence better/worse. It can easily be improved by repetition and familiarity. For math, it's the same thing. For example, I always forgot about the special triangles, permutations/combinations, and ratios. I studied a little harder on them, and now, I get 4-5 extra questions right on practice SATs because I memorized those recurring topics.</p>
<p>I got a 1450 on my second and 1410 on my first, and frankly I admit that I could have done better. STUDY!!! I can't emphasize this more, since if I studied I could have done much better.</p>
<p>memorize massive vocab lists.</p>
<p>the end.</p>
<p>edit: wow, that sounded really stupid... actually, it's a lot more efficient to learn word roots and stuff</p>
<p>Well I took the old SAT with the 1600 scale and did pretty well. 1. Be sure to choose a good time to take the test. When I first took the SAT, I took it right after exams and I was pretty drained so I didn't do as well. The next time I took it, it was after a pretty relaxing month after APs and such, and my score was considerably higher.<br>
2. I agree with the above comment. Do study! The last three weeks before I got my good SAT score, I did lots of practice tests and I think that really helped, especially with critical reading (which was my weak point).</p>