<p>so this is biggest test of your life. you've talked about it since the seventh grade, the big bad SATs. and you've been hearing about since kindergarden. its a part of our culture. but now that its here for many of us, how much time are you actually devoting to it? if you're a junior, your life may be busy enough with AP exams, ECs, friends, etc. So who has studied for months and whos planning on going in without any practice? Is it even worth studying that much?</p>
<p>I'm the oddball, I suppose. I never even knew what the SAT was until January 2007 and I took it blind in March (no practice) and achieved a 2040.</p>
<p>Since then I've taken every previously administered PSAT (2001-2006, all forms) for practice and have voraciously consumed all the literature possible about the test. </p>
<p>We'll see how I do in June.</p>
<p>Spent tons of time at this SAT forum while procrastinating too much even to study! (result: ending up in abysmal cosmology :() ;)</p>
<p>Probably only an hour, two at the most. Eh.</p>
<p>Overall: About 50 hours. Though probably less because I'm including SAT classes in those hours...which I didn't pay attention to because it was a little on the slow side.</p>
<p>I only did random practicing and vocab studying; no real routines or anything.</p>
<p>Recently I bought Barron's 2400 so I guess I'll be studying it for 12 hours or less.</p>
<p>It's not the biggest test of your life. For many, the biggest test is the ACT.</p>
<p>i took about 16 practice tests for psats and got a 240</p>
<p>when sats came around i took like three practice sats and got a 2330.</p>
<p>pretty efficient i guess. i didn't "study" per se</p>
<p>yea, i haven't been studying that much. all i've been doing is practice questions and tests. and some vocab memorization. i hope that will be enough! the only thing is that i feel like if i dont do well on this, even if the rest of my app is pretty good, it will be a major blow to my chances of getting into my "dream school." no matter what ppl say, i feel like SATs are a major factor in determining one's chances of getting into a great school.</p>
<p>Ashraf Eassa, where did you get the old psats?</p>
<p>I bought them from the college-board store (2004-2006) and the 2001-2003 from amazon.com.</p>
<p>Too much. I spent an entire month or so of my summer doing nothing but SAT practice/self-prep (okay, well I did other things, but my parents made sure my main focus was the SAT) and a week of winter break studying for the March SAT. I wasn't satisfied with my score, so I spent spring break (one week) studying for the May SAT. I get to see if it all paid off this Thursday!</p>
<p>With my luck, probably not. I guess I'll take the ACT if this one isn't 2200+. :(</p>
<p>a LOT .</p>
<p>hmm...maybe my plan of minimal studying wasn't such a great idea after all....haha o well, i can prob cram it into the next two weeks (less actually!)</p>
<p>I don't believe in studying for it . . . nor do I have time.</p>
<p>I read the first five pages of their little book the night before; we'll see how it went on Thursday, I guess.</p>
<p>I got a 30 on my ACT and a 214 on my PSAT (both 97th percentile). DO you think my SAT scores will reflect these scores? (I hope so!)</p>
<p>I've probably done about 10 hours of studying from that bright blue College Board book, and I think I'll buy some more resources. Any suggestions on which books are helpful?</p>
<p>I got a significantly lower score on my SAT than PSAT...but that was probably just because I panicked. You should get around your PSAT score.</p>
<p>You should get around your PSAT score.-------i second it.....I thought mine would be really different for SAT, but yeah, it was almost the same :(</p>