<p>How long were you studying for your SAT and ACT tests? I registered about two months before my test date and I think I have enough time...but then again i'm always paranoid I don't have enough time to prepare.</p>
<p>Always study months in advance! Your brain will slowly soak up the knowledge like a sponge. I don't recommend cramming the week before SATs. The week before SATs should be used for LIGHT review to keep you sharp, but nothing in depth like concepts.</p>
<p>I've been studying since about two days after I registered, when my books arrived from Amazon. I try to get in about an hour a day, but I do have time to do an hour in the morning and an hour at night...hmm.</p>
<p>I studied around 5 months for the December ACTs. I went up from a 25 to a 27composite.</p>
<p>I've been studying for the May SAT since the end of December...I was paranoid i wouldn't have enough time to study/i started late...ect, but I think 4 months (the length i will have studied once i take the SAT) is a good amount, and even less if you study a lot and constantly. My 4 months have been off and on with studying and not studying.</p>
<p>That makes me feel a little better. I study pretty much every day, maybe 1-2 days off during the week, and my math tutor comes once a week for an hour and we do some review then.</p>
<p>Check out e prep.com. They have different courses that will help you a lot in preparing for the SAT.</p>
<p>I studied for the SAT for months (many hours a day) and had a small improvement. I have yet to get back my ACT score, but based on my practice tests, I have improved quite a bit from spending about 5 hours a week prepping for a few weeks. It really varies by person though.</p>
<p>When I got my books, I found that the only thing I really needed to work on was my math. All the reading and verbal exercises I did great on. I slowly see myself improving my math, but i'm still horrible at it...if it's not improved in time for the test i'm going to be beyond annoyed with myself.</p>
<p>I took the March 1 testing. I did light review in December in January simply to get the basics down. Then I did fairly intensive review in february which was probably 7 hours a week or so, until the last week where I just did one math section a day for twenty to twenty five minutes. My PSATs was a 186 i believe and my SAT was a 2070, but only because it was worst case-scenario when it came to the vocab section and i still got like a 670. But still a 200 point improvement was good.</p>
<p>ACT: about 3 hours per day for about..two weeks. (+4 from early practice!)
SAT: 1-4 hours per day for about...four-five months. (340 point improvement..total)</p>
<p>SAT: an hour the night before, thats it. Granted, i didnt get a amazing score, (2000) but it got me into the colleges i wanted ne way</p>