<p>Hi, this weekend i took 4 practice tests, and got 2150, 2190,2180,2110(i was really stressed that day and just tried to finish/wasn't thinking clearly) all timed and all w/o the essay. Should i just stop practicing now seeing that the test is in 5 days? I think i hit my "plataeu" because when i first started studying, i got a 1810 untimed, no essay and then prepped by myself over the summer and managed to bring it up to around 2100's. I stopped studying when school started, and my scores dropped 100 points. I studied over winter break and brought it up again but i never actually broke the 2200 mark. Any insight would be nice, thanks!</p>
<p>Well, you don’t want to stress out with a ton of practice tests right before the actual exam…4 practice tests in 1 weekend is a lot.</p>
<p>You don’t. Just keep doing timed practice tests. Plateaus don’t exist.</p>
<p>I concur with Tyson. With anything in life practice makes perfect.</p>
<p>There is no plateau.</p>
<p>Or, rather, there are [a</a> thousand of them](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus]a”>A Thousand Plateaus - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>Ya, there really aren’t any plateaus. When I get the same score a few times in a row, I alter my strategy slightly to avoid similar mistakes</p>
<p>^^ Taking practice tests endlessly isn’t going to help improve your score. What you need to do is look at what you’re missing/skipping, or even circle problems that take you a little longer when you are working on the test, and after you score the test, look at it critically. Try and figure out what thing you’re doing well and what is challenging for you, and make it a point to similarly focus on those things when you take your next test.</p>
<p>Take a break.</p>
<p>I hit a “plateau” of sorts at 2300. I took a break for a couple of weeks, and I ended up scoring a 2390 today.</p>
<p>He doesn’t really have a week, does he? I find that instead of doing an entire practice test, it’s better to do lots of one section. For example, my biggest weakness is Critical Reading, so I am just doing those sections over and over. Even if you could improve on all three sections it helps to compartmentalise the study in this way instead of trying to do three things at once. Occasionally, one can take a full test to practice under time pressure etc., but really no more than 2 or 3 full tests are needed. I found it helped me improved my writing score average from ~650 to ~800 in about two days.</p>