<p>I know I'm good at math.. but I'm 100% sure theres going to be 1 or 2 questions on the real SAT math section that I'm going to have to guess from 3 or 2 answers..</p>
<p>In addtion, isnt the curve for math awful? Meaning if I get those 2 questions wrong or even just the 1 question, it could drop me to the mid-low 700's. </p>
<p>So I'm just asking how much luck do you actually need for the math section to get a 800?</p>
<p>Some people don’t need any luck; they consistently score 800. Others, however, are more prone to “silly” mistakes and thus need to perhaps alter their pace or hone their focus in order to compensate.</p>
<p>dont worry about luck and just improve your focus so you dont make little mistakes.</p>
<p>i did that and it helped a lot, but still made one little mistake and the curve on June was extremely harsh. -1=760 so i was mad that one mistake cost me 40pts.</p>
<p>so yeah, improve your focus to not make little mistakes.</p>
<p>Personally, I think that if a person knows their concepts well enough and is careful to avoid foolish mistakes, an 800 on the Math section will not require much luck.</p>
<p>brian cheng???</p>
<p>if you have to guess, even on 1 problem, you’re pretty far from getting the 800.
I got consistent, multiple 800s on practice using QAS, under almost identical test conditions, but I was not able to get 800 on the actual one. I walked out of the exam room, thinking that I perfected the math section, but it turned out that I missed 2 questions, both times. I knew how to do every problem, but I regrettably didn’t get the 800 that I wanted. </p>
<p>Silverturtle’s totally right, and I fall into the latter category.</p>
<p>You should definitely practice, why do you always miss 1 or 2? You should be getting 800 with practice, since you’re so close.</p>
<p>You definitely need to avoid careless mistakes by checking your work over if you’re done early instead of just sitting there blankly like many SAT test takers do once they are finished with a section.</p>
<p>Yea, it really depends on how sharp you are. My math tutor solved 1000 sat math questions and got one wrong because of careless mistake. Some ppl are just very careful and precise.</p>
<p>^Holy crap. A boy from my school never ever got an SAT math question wrong. Although, this isn’t surprising since he nearly made IMO (USAMO honorable mention).</p>
<p>I asked him why he never made a mistake and said he would do the problem extremely fast (1/4 the time alotted), and then after he finished the test he would redo every problem 2-3 more times.</p>
<p>solving in just 1/4 of allotted time(approx. 6.23 min) seems a bit unrealistic for normal people though… I’d probably say leaving 10 minutes to go over and solve it the 2nd time around would be good enough…</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>That would be about 20 seconds per question.</p>
<p>The kid was ridiculously good at math.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>20 seconds a question good at math? Reading some questions would already take up half of that time.</p>
<p>^ I could definitely see someone who is profoundly mathematically talented doing that.</p>
<p>^ Yea, the kid definitely must’ve been good because majority of SAT takers probably can’t think that fast for all the math questions. 20 seconds sounds reasonable for like the first 3-5 questions though.</p>
<p>I would think that the amount of luck needed decreases as the amount of practice you do increases.</p>
<p>So, limit of luck needed as practice problems done–>infinity=0.</p>
<p>I think it’s more effective to work each problem slowly and only once. The only double-checking I do is when I verify the answers I circled in the test book to the one I bubbled in on the answer sheet.</p>