<p>So my sophomore year, I scored really bad on the PSAT because that same week I had a terrible week, one of my family members tried to hurt themselves and I was really scared and worried. I only took the PSAT that week because my dad spent money on that and I didn't want to waste that money on nothing. I took a practice PSAT earlier this year and I scored a 160 which is better but not as good. I am planning to take the PSAT this year as a junior and I really want my score to be in the 200+ ranges. I know this is a lot but I am willing to work hard and I have been prepping since with my SAT books. I have a month and half so what can I do to improve my score. Please don't say it is impossible because I heard of a success story of a kid who scored a 139 on the PSAT sophomore year and then scored a 230 on the PSAT junior year, but I don't know his methods to obtaining that score.</p>
<p>Gonna copy-paste what I’ve said before to others:</p>
<p>Do a math section from any book daily, or maybe two if you’re concerned about your score. Get used to getting the math questions right the first time around because going back to check your mistakes doesn’t always work. Doing math daily will help you get the hang of all the different kinds of questions as well as help decrease the number of silly mistakes you might make.</p>
<p>I was told to write everywhere on the reading sections. In other words, circle important words in the passage, underline key phrases, etc. while you are reading through. Physically cross out the answers you KNOW are wrong so you can concentrate on narrowing down the right answer. It helps keep you focused. I know it sounds stupid but it really helps. If you encounter those bits that require you to compare two passages, scribble a little summary of the first passage you read, answer the q’s that only require that one passage, and THEN read the second one, scribble a summary, and answer the rest. Sentence completion can also be made easier by just crossing out the words that definitely don’t fit, and it’s actually all just process of elimination - if one word doesn’t fit, the whole answer doesn’t work, so sometimes you can use this to get away with not knowing vocab (but if I were you I’d study some anyway.) The yellow Gruber’s book has a good list of solid vocab that does show up frequently on the tests so you can study those.</p>
<p>The grammar rules that appear on the SAT are relatively simple and there’s a chart in the Collegeboard book that has them (page 101). Just study those and practice using them. There’s not much else to it. And again, physically cross out your answers.</p>
<p>Thank you so much you helped a lot.</p>