Hello CC people,
So many people say that those who get perfect scores prepped for the SAT by studying 80 hours a week(during summer and holidays)
Is that right? Do i need to study 12 hours a day tp get a pefect score of 1600?
What is getting a perfect SAT score worth to you? Is it worth giving up time to achieve something you think is valuable?
@lostaccount
Agreed.
I attended a SAT boot camp for 4 hours/weekday over 6 weeks. My score wasn’t perfect, but my CR + M would be 1550 out of 1600.
A perfect score is over-rated. There are more students with perfect score than any given top college can accommodate in a given class, yet the percentage of those admitted students in any of these top colleges with perfect score isn’t that high. Instead of spending all of your valuable time studying like crazy for the perfect score, do something else interesting with your life.
Some people can study for years and never achieve a perfect score. On the plus side, having a perfect score vs a 2250 doesn’t provide much of a boost for elite college admissions
Preparing for the SAT, or ACT, is a long-term project. Because they measure academic preparation that predicts academic success early in college and there are far too many questions to practice on, even if they were available, there is no specific amount of time needed to earn a perfect score. Twelve hours a day seems excessive to me. I imagine the 100% group had hit their need for study in fewer than 12 hours studying, especially if they went to school, ate slept…I suspect very few would have earned a perfect score if they and taken the test again, but it would have been a very nice score still at the 99%ile. Your question is like asking the length of a piece of string.
High school is the best preparation for a test that measures high-school preparation of college-bound students. Others have commented on why you want a perfect score and what would you be willing to give up in earning it. Beyond their comments, what makes you think you would even earn one? Statistics, content of particular tests, personal and extraneous things, and who knows what else could result in missing an item or two.
Seems to me your time could be used so much better. Reading 12 hours a day would be much more fun and meaningful in terms of your learning and could even get you a slot on Jeopardy. Volunteering, mowing lawns, playing computer games and about a billion other things would be a better use of your time. Other than getting your picture in the paper, having bragging rights to something unique for a limited period, or saying to your grandchildren When I was in high school…what would you gain?