<p>Hello dears!</p>
<p>I am an international student; I am taking the SAT in May, oh no just three weeks from now!
while doing preperation tests of College Board and I check for my scores, I find myself stuck in the 2100 and 2200.
For math: in the 700 range > 1 question or two that I don't know.
Writing: in the 700 > always silly mistakes
Yet I am stuck in the low 600 in the critical reading.
I need to jump to 800 for math and writing; My mistakes are usually s
And just the 700 in the critical reading.
My goal is 2300.
What shall I do?
Help me please!</p>
<p>God helps those who help themselves lol</p>
<p>Of course, I am to help myself.
But persons giving me experience and pieces of advice will make a huge difference. </p>
<p>Hey! My trick to the SAT is the Question Of the Day. EVERYDAY. I’m a little younger, not quite ready to take the test, but I’m getting questions right that my older brother and parents get wrong. It also exposes you to all of the different types of questions and lots of grammar rules. </p>
<p>What can I do with the bloody critical reading section to jusm to 700?! </p>
<p>Guys, say anything please. don’t hold the advice up!</p>
<p>^Take a myriad of practice tests in CR. Start off by not timing yourself, answering all of the questions to the best of your ability, and analyzing what you are insufficient in. When you start noticing improvements, start going by the time limit.</p>
<p>Ahmedhope, for an 800, you have to have a relentless motivation to do whatever it takes. You have to have the mentality that anything less than perfection is unacceptable. If you’re making silly or careless mistakes, do not brush those off. You have to do several sections everyday until you are consistently missing nothing. Mistaking the question for x when it asked for 2x is unacceptable. Check out pwnthesat and crushthetest for hard math questions.</p>
<p>For reading, breaking 700 requires understanding the subtle differences between two good-sounding choices. When you are stuck between two choices, stop trying to debate which is better. Instead figure out which one is wrong. If yoy can come up for any reason it’s wrong, then cross it off. If you focus on which is better, you can easily talk yourself into either choice. There’s something that sounds good about each choice, which is why they are still in the running. So don’t justify why something is right. Identify what’s wrong. Think carefully about the difference between the choices. If a story is about a guy who likes to get lost, then it talks about how he went into the mountains where there was no one else around, think about what that says and doesn’t say. So if the question is what do the mountains represent, they don’t represent a desolate, lonely place. They represent a place for the guy to get lost. Yes, it’s sensible, logical, and reasonable to think that if there are no other people on the mountain, that means it’s a desolate place. However, that’s your own plausible interpretation. The SAT doesn’t want you to interpret. It wants you to be literal. And study your vocab too.</p>
<p>What exactly do you feel your problem is though? What issue is holding you back from getting 2300? Do you feel you don’t have the techniques? Or is it your confidence level? Like what specifically is making you worry?</p>
<p>And why do you want a 2300 exactly? No judgment, just genuinely curious why since 2100+ is pretty excellent already.</p>
<p>@pwcpeng, I am much grateful for your answer and your advice.
First of all: I want a 2300 to apply for Harvard university or Stanford university, with financial aid, so I don’t think that 2100+ will give me a good chance.
What holds me back in the math section: pretty silly mistakes because of misreading some points or misunderstanding.
In the critical reading passage: I get almost all the sentece completion questions corretly. The problem becomes when it’s passage based questions specially “those general questions and tone questions”.
In the writing section: also pretty silly mistakes due to not reading all the giving choices and thinking more deeply.
By the way I am always worried.</p>
<p>So for you, it’s not just getting into an elite school…it’s getting in with financial aid. That’ll be tough. I know countless people with perfect scores who not only don’t get financial aid/scholarships, but they get flat out rejected by Stanford/Harvard. I see this test more as a way of not letting the door close, as opposed to actually opening the door. A high score won’t get you in, but it will prevent you from being disqualified right away.</p>
<p>What is it that you’re truly worried about though? And this is a very personal question because everyone has different answers, but if you don’t get into Stanford or Harvard, what does that mean to you? Would you feel like a failure or that your life is ruined? What is it that you’re scared of the most…I don’t mean bombing the SAT…but what would bombing the SAT mean to you? (Btw, I don’t think 2100 - 2200 is failing at all).</p>
<p>If silly mistakes are your nemesis, then you have to stop thinking of them as careless mistakes. Treat the questions methodically, following a system every time. I recommend bracketing and labeling all math questions because you don’t want to solve for X only for the question to be asking about 2x. You don’t want to solve the radius when they are asking for the diameter.</p>
<p>For tone questions on reading, look at the supporting clue words. Are they positive or negative? Are they serious or sarcastic? Are they confident or unsure? Excited or bored?</p>
<p>@pwcpeng , Thank you so much.
Getting into Harvard/ Stanford is a strong push in my life; it makes me feel that I am not less than my colleagues. I’ve friends who got into MIT and Stanford because of their volunteering and scientific research, they had no SAT scores though just TOEFL. They are not better than me. Because I know I can do this too!
I’ve scientific and volunteering work to, good atheletic ability.
So, I am trying to get everything into perfection that will make me flawless; will make me strongly chosen.</p>
<p>@Ahmedhope</p>
<p>The key would be to classify your mistakes. If you can examine your mistakes and start tracking what types of questions you are missing. On the Writing section, how many are pronoun agreement, how many are faulty comparison, how many are tense errors, etc. On the Math how many are due to which type of problem? Same with CR. I don’t tutor the math, but if you could do this for the Writing and CR (you should do this for the Math though as well to help you study more efficiently) and if you put @testadvice at the top of your message so it alerts me that you responded, I can give you some guidance.</p>
<p>By the way, I also agree with the other posters. Careless mistakes are due to a lack of practice, poor methodology, or lack of sleep.</p>