<p>So RocketReview was telling me that no student in the history of the SAT has found a mistake by checking over their work. Who does this guy think he is? Anyways, he strategies are great, but he is right about how checking over your work won't always find the error. When you check over your work, you usually do it in the same way and you're always thinking, "I know this is right, let me go to the next question because I know this works." Sure you can try to solve the problem in a different way, but what else do you do? </p>
<p>ALSO, if you haven't labeled any questions, which questions do you check? Should you indeed start at the beginning with the EASY questions? You could have very well made a careless mistake, but the focus should be with medium; however, you might be in such a rush to check over the easy questions to get to the medium and hard, that you might miss a careless mistake. So how do you check? Backwards(from the last question), from the first question, or start with the mediums and go to hard and then easy?</p>
<p>I circle/star questions that I'm not 100% sure of as I'm doing the test, so I go back to those questions first, as well as any questions I may have skipped the first time through. </p>
<p>Math problems, I try to work backwards (take the answer I got and plug it back into the problem to see if it works) Other ones I might find reasons why the other answers are wrong (assuming it's multiple choice, and I have enough time)</p>
<p>Mostly, checking over my work is to make sure I didn't bubble in (C) when I meant (D) or something silly like that.</p>
<p>I check over my work in math after each question and that's how I got the perfect score on my PSAT.</p>
<p>I put a huge check for the questions that I KNOW FOR SURE are correct. Then I go over the questions that I did not put a huge check over if I have time.</p>
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<p>RocketReview says that? Wow, that's pretty ridiculous. Of course students find mistakes by checking their work. I did. Just circle the ones you're not sure about, give yourself time at the end to go back to them. Leaving them alone for a while (even only 10 minutes) allows you to get a fresh look at them, which helps a lot for grammar questions that you want to sound out. Other times, the first instinct is best and students often overthink their correct answers into wrong answers.</p>
<p>Again, I find it best to check the answers you are sure that you got right and go over the ones you didn't check.</p>
<p>It's more helpful for someone like me who finishes a typical section in 15-17 minutes, giving plenty of time to check over work.</p>
<p>If you tend to finish a few minutes before 25 is up, then just check over the ones near the end of the section or in a reading passage that you couldn't comprehend completely.</p>
<p>Also, Rocket Review is the most overrated book in College Confidential. I don't know why it's so popular. I'd rather trust Kaplan or PR anyday.</p>
<p>Naw man, just double check every math problem right after you do it. LMAO
Rocket Reivew is a book that has the worst strategies so if you follow it's strategies you're going to get screwed over. High scorers recommend the book to you so you'll go screw yourself over.</p>
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<li><p>You don't check your work right after you do the problem. If you do, it lowers your IQ and makes you more prone to make careless mistakes. You should finiish the math fairly quickly and double and make sure you read the question and bubbled everything in correctly.</p></li>
<li><p>For critical reading, you should defiantly understand the passage comprehensively before you answer the questions. You shouldn't be spending more time on "the questions" like the author of Rocket Review says. You should be spending just as much time on the questions as you do on the passage if not more time on the passage. Once you have the overall tone of the author and a good understanding of the passage, the questions come quickly and easily so try your best to understand the passage before answering the questions.</p></li>
<li><p>Writing should be easy for you because everybody basically uses the same strategy.</p></li>
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<p>Rocket Reivew is a horrible book which gives you many wrong test taking tips. I have the book, and trust me, it does not give good advice. The only books that I've found useful for testtaking advice are probably the barrons 2007 and 2400.</p>
<p>I only check over math, and sometimes writing.
With the tricky SAT math, I circle ones that are in the medium-hard range and I solved with a glance (which almost always means I did somethig wrong)</p>