<p>Hello. I'm a fob baffled over the easiest and the most trivial thing in the SAT writing.</p>
<p>So, I was wondering:</p>
<p>I have studied math. vs. I studied math.
Does the former one 'Necessarily' indicate that I have studied math several times in the past, rather than merely once? Because if it's not so, there's really no need to express the fact that I studied math with an extra have.</p>
<p>Help a fob. Be a generous twinkie! :D</p>
<p>The present perfect “have studied” indicates an action that began in the past and is continuing into the present. So by saying you “have studied math,” you’re saying that you started studying math and is still doing so.
i.e. I have studied math since the 6th grade. (You started studying math in the 6th grade and is still studying math currently.)</p>
<p>The simple past “studied” indicates an action that began and ended in the past.
i.e. I studied math in the 6th grade. (You started and stopped studying math in the 6th grade.)</p>
<p>Then does ‘had studied’ and ‘studied’ indicate the same thing?
Because they both indicate an action that was already done and ceased in the past?</p>