<p>From your initial SAT practice test to the final SAT, how much did you end up improving?</p>
<p>I recently got an 1860 on my first practice test, is it possible to get a 2300?</p>
<p>Bump.
Id like to see your responses!</p>
<p>Hmmm seems like this isn’t a popular topic.</p>
<p>I went from ~1800 to 2300. Its doable. You need to be very focused in your practice though.</p>
<p>For me, math was the weak point. I hadn’t learned most of the material since I was homeschooled. As soon as I learned the material my score went up. I started with around 550 in early practice and ended up with 790 on my last run at the real test.</p>
<p>I went from 1950 to 2360. I spent two weeks doing practice/prep.</p>
<p>It’s entirely possible.</p>
<p>Caeruleum, that is an extraordinary feat! How many tests did you compress in those two weeks?</p>
<p>Just the blue book. It’s your best friend!</p>
<p>Never, and I mean <em>never</em> do a full length test all at once. Choose a section of the SAT that you want to improve in, and do nothing but those specific sections. I devoted the first week to Critical Reading (670 in January, 800 in June), and then the second week to Writing (650 in January, 770 in June). I was not worried about Math because I had worked on it at times with an old math teacher (630 in January, 790 in June).</p>
<p>My lord Caeruleum, thats amazing! I always did the “section” by “section” thing but never thought of doing one specific subject a week. I always do a combination of CR+M+W everyday so one doesnt imbalance the other. I actually bought the Blue Book two times because the first time I bought it, I was a inept snail. Now, looking back at my mistakes from the old book, I start laughing. Its amazing what 3 months of prep can do. I received a 1940 on my first SAT. Aiming for a 2100+ 2200 preferable though. Good luck guys!</p>
<p>The first time I took the SAT, I never finished my essay and got CR 570, M 620, W 470. This was in October 2011.</p>
<p>Then I started reading more – mainly novels, plus reading CNN’s website once every two weeks or so, and finally, I started practicing for the SAT last March. I retook it in May, and got CR 700, M 720, W 680.</p>
<p>If I went from 1660 to 2100 with only a few weeks of practice during the school year (minus the vocabulary lists) and a year’s worth of reading material, I think you can go from 1860 to 2300 if you make use of the summer.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Im doing the week by week focusing on a section. I’ve been kind of uninspired this week and feeling flustered with the essay/writing questions.
Thanks guys for bringing the motivation back. Your growth is amazing!</p>
<p>Do you guys think its possible to jump from a 1620 to 2200+?</p>
<p>It’s probably possible; you just need the time, the right preparation methods (mix of practice tests and review wrong questions and concepts in general, although I’m not sure there is an exact science to how you should review), and the discipline.</p>
<p>1650 8th grade
2150 10th grade</p>
<p>1st try: 2010 (M: 700, W: 700, CR: 610)
2nd try: 2250 (M: 790, W: 800, CR: 660)</p>
<p>I had a private tutor before my first test with whom I met every week for almost 3 months. After the 1st try I didn’t study once. I was very happy with my major improvement, although it dulls in comparison to Caeruleum’s. </p>
<p>I feel like there’s only so much you can study and practice for the SAT. It definitely helps to review vocab and take several practice tests, but after that it comes down to pure aptitude and test-taking ability. </p>
<p>A jump from the 1600s to 2200s within a year seems unlikely, because a score can really only vary by so much. You can gain information, but you can’t gain aptitude. Now one can definitely put enough work in and master the test, but that’s more a result of harnessing potential rather than boosting intelligence. Anyone who ever got a perfect score didn’t get below a 2000 on their first reasonable try. Like I said, you can’t learn general aptitude. But anyone can practice enough to get a respectable score.</p>
<p>Time.
I went from a 1300 to a 2040. Practice tests.</p>
<p>Mm. Thank you!</p>
<p>What irks me is my writing section, though. I had a perfect multiple choice subscore, but my essay was an 8. Literally anything higher would have been an 800 in Writing, too- and then I’d have a 2390 -_-</p>
<p>That week I spent on writing was really only multiple choice though, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. I’d actually like to say that I’m a pretty great writer, but as we all should know, the SAT essay doesn’t gauge your writing abilities, it gauges your abilities to write an SAT essay -_-</p>
<p>That being said, I implore everybody to look at how to improve Writing multiple choice. It is, IMO, by far the easiest section to improve. They test the same concepts every single time.</p>
<p>The writing section is KILLING me.
And I don’t know why. I did exceptionally well on my PSAT writing. But this essay (omg) is killing me. But I find the more essays I do the better I get. Even though the growth is small… just baby steps.
Needless to say, this week has been the worst week in my self studying plan. :(</p>
<p>@Caeruleum Can you please answer my question, i feel like im in the same situation. I just want more specifics on exactly how you increased you CR so much. Like 1 section a day or 2, or 3? How do I improve and and correctly review rather than making the same score everytime? [Here’s my question](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1530170-how-significantly-increase-score.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1530170-how-significantly-increase-score.html</a>)</p>
<p>I went from 1720 to 1940 in three tests, though my second one was the one with the 1940 score. It’s weird, I though I would do better on my third test…</p>
<p>@slasheer:</p>
<p>Find all of the blue book’s practice tests.</p>
<p>Standard in every SAT are 3 CR sections, 3 M sections, and 2 W (multiple choice) sections. There’s an experimental, and then an essay section.</p>
<p>Do each test’s subject per day. As in- on any given day, do all 3 CR sections, or all 3 M sections, or both W sections. Time yourself and give yourself appropriate breaks in between each individual section.</p>
<p>e.g. Monday night, you do the first test’s CR sections, and nothing more. You can get your score from it to gauge any improvement. </p>
<p>When I was first doing my sections, my CR was actually lower than I scored in January. I discovered Noitaraperp a day or two later, and my scores ascended into an average of about 750. Test day, my 800, was a mixture of luck/skill, but mainly luck. I found it to be remarkably easy in comparison to the practice tests.</p>