<p>For all the 2000+ How long did you study each day? Or at all?
I want to improve about 600...</p>
<p>I studied about 5 hours total a week, and got a 2250. about half an hour per day on weekdays (i was way too busy on school nights to study more than half and hour a night for SAT), 2.5 hours total on weekends. On weekdays, I did one timed section of a practice test per day. on weekends, I did pretty much an entire test.</p>
<p>but honestly, it's not about how long you study. it's more of about where you are on the test-taking skills range right now, and how effectively you study. First off, you need to get an SAT prep book--college board blue book is the best.</p>
<p>To boost all of your scores, the main thing is that you need to practice, practice, practice. Doing practice questions will give you experience on how to deal with collegeboard's style and on how to crack the harder problems. Learning from your mistakes and REMEMBERING what you learned from your mistakes is essential while practicing.</p>
<p>For math- practice. that's all I can say. math came a little more naturally for me, but I did initially have trouble consistently with the last 1-2 problems of each set. So, what I did to focus on grabbing those few questions and points was to go thru a bunch of math sets and do the last 3 problems of each set. I eventually got a handle of the various tricks and methods of thought to solve these problems and i scored 770/780 easy.</p>
<p>CR- read and practice. Practice those passage sets. Along the way, read. Read the newspaper every day. Read novels and classics. Not easy stuff--start out with books that are medium-hard to you, and then push your way up. If you want over 700 on the CR portion, you should be able to read and analyze effectively prose at the level of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Anna Karenina, etc. Also, reading textbooks can help with factual passages. The AP textbooks for biology, history, psych, etc. are great practice while you're getting through the AP classes at the same time.</p>
<p>Writing- matter of practice and learning grammar. Learn the rules and mechanics in the SAT prep book you buy. As for learning idioms/usage, you'll have to find some grammar guru...Warriner's grammar textbooks are good. Then practice.</p>