<p>Hey guys,
I took the psat this october and i got a horrible score of 156. I do great in school, i take ap's easily. im a really bright kid but i know i wont get into any school with a 1560 sat score. so im wondering if you guys can help me out.</p>
<p>a. what books should i get to help me out? i have the barrons sat 2400, and the blue book.
b. what courses do people recommend taking? im thinking about taking ivy insiders this summer. i really wanna go up to about a 2360 sat score.
c. is there anyway to make prep work not completely boring?
d. has anybody had a situation similar to mine?</p>
<p>btw, my gpa is a 4.0 unweighted and a 4.4 weighted. im a sopohomore, my rank is 2/398 in my school. i really need to improve drastically by 800 points and i know its in me to do it.</p>
<p>i just needed the guidance from you guys to help me pull it off.
thanks so much it means alot to me.</p>
<p>Well, since you’re only in 10th grade, you’ve got lots of time. You’re going to need it if you want to pull off an 800 point improvement. Anecdotally, I’ve worked with close to a thousand kids, and the biggest improvement I’ve ever seen was about 700 points. And that was like…one kid. If you want the SAT to become your life, you might be able to do it, but if you’re already worrying about how boring it’s going to be, then maybe you should set a more reasonable goal for improvement and enjoy high school a bit. These are some of the best years of your life, you know. :)</p>
<p>I’ve never found the SAT to be boring. I treat it like a giant puzzle to be solved, or a game to be beaten. I scour every test for patterns and clues, and I make careful notes every time something I haven’t seen before comes along (which still, once in a GREAT while, happens). </p>
<p>A course will help you get started, but you should expect to do a LOT more work on your own before you reach your goal.</p>
<p>You’ve come to a place where a number of others like me have written some very long and well thought out posts about their 2400’s. Read them, take from them what works for you, and seek other opinions about the bits that don’t work for you. Take every test you can get your hands on, and make sure that you don’t just glance at your mistakes afterwards and say “oh yeah, I see how that works now.” You need to make sure that every mistake you make is the LAST mistake of that kind you will ever make. </p>
<p>It’s most definitely not going to be easy, but I learned a while ago never to tell someone who’s determined that what they want to achieve is impossible. Good luck!</p>