<p>Took the new sat's for the first time....frankly im pretty dissapointed. I barely scraped a 2000....</p>
<p>That said, im devoting my entire summer to raise my score (rising junior), and I'll have a lot of time this summer. I have all the necessary books, and I'm taking an sat class over the summer, 6 hours a day for 6 days a week, for a month. Heard it helped alot, unlike other places such as the princeton review.</p>
<p>Im taking it again next week (we take the test weekly), and maybe it'll improve.</p>
<p>I took the psat practice and got 170, I took the real psat's the next day and got a 210....wierd? I got a 31 on the ACT's</p>
<p>Maybe its because I took the test while I had jet lag, and I didnt have a calculator for the math section...dunno :(</p>
<p>Is my goal do-able? I know its going to be hard as hell, but considering I got all summer and next year to study....</p>
<p>Uh - your score will probably come up to close to that w/o studying - you get smarter over the course of jr year (hard to believe). My PSAT went from 202 to 235 Soph->Jr year.</p>
<p>Why are you taking the SAT so early, anyways? Practice I guess. Well - don't fret - it'll happen.</p>
<p>I only took the actual SAT once, but on the PSAT I got a 195, practice tests peaked at 2050, and on the actual test I got a 2270, so it's not impossible. You just have to study like crazy.</p>
<p>To get a 2300+ luck is involved. If you study hard, then the day happens to be your day, then sure it can happen. If it's not your day, but you still studied really hard, you should be able to get a 2200.</p>
<p>What I mean is that consistantly scoring 2300+ is an extremely difficult feat to accomplish. I know several students who scored from 2250-2320 and then retook it to get a higher score, only to find out that their score was lower the second time.</p>
<p>my gain for my last 2 test was 190 points, without preparing....
so 200 is possible....
That's why I am trying to do it again in October, this time with preparation</p>
<p>I think if I had a graphing calculator and was better rested when i took the test I could have gotten about a 2100...i looked over my test and I made the stupidest mistakes.</p>
<p>So I am aiming for an increase of 200 points.....?</p>
<p>First off a 2000 is a very good score... about the 94th percentile. Now, to get into a top school, a score over 2100 would really help. Unless the first time you took you SAT it wasn't your day and you were screwing up left and right, a 2300 is pretty unrealistic and pretty unnecessary. Any score over 2200 is an excellent score. I think you should definitely aim high in your scoring, but in no way should you be disappointed if your next score falls between 2150 and 2250.</p>
<p>Just to let you know: I went from a 1990 to a 2180 with no additional prep.</p>
<p>***....we take the sat's every monday as a diagnostic test to see how much I improved. Frankly, im pretty shocked. </p>
<p>Last week: 500 math (i know...), 670 verbal, 630 writing
Apparently my score was curved for the class, so they said I got a
2000. Scores above = college board scoring</p>
<p>5 DAYS LATER</p>
<p>570 M, 750 V, 650 W</p>
<p>My score rose 170 points in 5 days??!!</p>
<p>I hope I didnt use up one of my good days :)</p>
<p>yeah its totally realistic. I scored exactly a 2000 on in march (680M, 640CR, 680W, 10 essay) and in june i scored a 2170 (710M, 690CR, 770W, 12 essay). I studied a week. I guess it was just my day or i just got really lucky. who knows, but i might retake to get 2200+.</p>
<p>At the 2200+ level, it is very difficult to improve your scores. If you made a <em>good</em> effort and did prep before the exam, and scored a 2000, then it is very unlikely that your score will improve 150+ points. However, if you completely messed up, or did no prep before, it is possible that your true ability is around the 2200+ range (and you may take practice tests under testing conditions to substantiate this), in which case doing more prep might get you a 2300, but I doubt it. </p>
<p>And, considering that your ACT converts roughly to a 2040 (which is around your SAT score), I am more convinced that you won't get a 2300, unless you completely messed up on that too. </p>
<p>Each person has an innate SAT ability. To reach your potential, you should take the SAT prep course and take as many practice tests as you can, but there is a cut-off point. Do not expect a 300 point improvement on the 2000 level. However, if you scored an 1800, a 300 point improvement is more feasible. You must understand that you can only afford to miss a FEW questions on each section to get a score of 2300. And why did you pick 2300? It seems arbitrary to me. Anything above a 2200 is fine for the Ivys. </p>
<p>If you've taken practice tests (5 or more) and you score around a 2100 (average), expect to get anything in the range of 2050-2150 on the test. Improvements of 200 points are unusual. It's hard to say what your potential is, but going from a 2000 to a 2300 is unrealistic.</p>
<p>Try to remember that scores aren't everything.</p>
<p>I dont know if I'm very credible as I have never taken a real SAT (other than the blue book ones, and one old one). I have, however, taken Princeton Review, Kaplan, Barrons, and CB practice tests. The firt test I took was a PR one and I got a 2040 w/o studying (not very impressive I know) but then I looked and I saw I didnt check over my answers and made many simple mistakes on all sections. I took another PR test, checked my answers and got a 2320. I took a Kaplan one and got 800 math, 790 CR and 720 writing. CBs I got about the same range as well. But again, Im not the most reliable source but I dit improve about 250 points on the (albeit unreliable) practice tests.</p>
<p>first of all... my prep course and PSATs didn't reflect my SAT scores at all... not even relatively close... my SAT I scores each went up about 70 points from what i was expecting... so if you put in the work, you'll see the results... you may not raise 300 points... put you'll raise considerably</p>
<p>I went from a 180-something (10th grade PSAT) to a 223 (PSAT) and 2330 (SAT/SAT II Wri combo, all taken my jr year). </p>
<p>It's possible. </p>
<p>Took lots of practice tests; practice makes perfect, right? The writing test is really easy if you know the "formula" for the essay (most people gets SCREWED on the essay because of the time constraint, so it's easy to do well because of the curve). </p>