<p>Taking my first sat this October. I really want score 2200. If I study 5 hours a day this summer , you think I can reach my goal ? Also I'm weak in math and specially in grammar . Any advice to improve on my weak spots and to get 2200? </p>
<p>Practice practice practice. Focus on your weakness more than your strengths. Take full timed tests, but also work on only one section some days. Understand why your answer was wrong. Read more often, and read a variety of writing styles. </p>
<p>Hopefully this helps. </p>
<p>Use this handy chart:</p>
<p>Daily Study Hours Total Score
1 1500
2 1600
3 1700
4 1800
5 1900
6 2000
7 2100
8 2150
9 2170
10 2180
11 2190
12 2200</p>
<p>So as you can see, you need to put in at least 12 hours a day to get a 2200, especially if you’re “weak” in key areas like “math and grammar.” :)</p>
<p>^ I think that is a little bit extreme. It all depends on where your weaknesses are. Practice, look at answers and explanations immediately afterwards I found Gruber’s Complete SAT book to be helpful for math strategies, but many other people use the blue book because it accurately represents what the SAT is going to be like. As for myself, I hardly spent 12 hours studying in a day for the SAT, nor do I think I spent that much in a week. It all depends on how many topics you feel like you need work on. Sooner or later you will notice patterns and it will become second nature to you. good luck!</p>
<p>I got over a 2200 my first time and definitely didn’t study 12 hours a day ahahaha. First, I would recommend getting a good math book- I used Dr. Chung’s book (I can’t remember the exact title), and it helped a lot. As far as grammar goes, I suggest googling a comprehensive SAT grammar study guide. I did this and found one easily. After reading a study guide I would practice a bunch… I used college board’s book (which had like 9 practice tests) and only did the writing sections. Hopefully this helps!</p>
<p>I think soze’s method is extreme borderline of being ridiculous… it’s not like the only thing you’ll be doing during the entire summer is studying for the SAT. Surely you’ll have ECs to do, sports to practice for, etc. A highly knowledgeable SAT tutor, the Blue Book, and 1-3 other supplementary books (like Barron’s CR and John Chung’s 58 math tips) should be enough.</p>
<p>In any case, soze, if you’re reading this, that was a good ■■■■■ attempt 
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<p>Holy moley, didn’t you people see the smiley face.
I was attempting to provide a ridiculous answer to a ridiculous question.</p>
<p>Guys guys, I also want to get a 2200, well, probably a 2150 would work well. Same thing above, Oct test.</p>
<p>What should I do?
I am weak, really weak at CR (highest score ever: 550 
)
Math I am able to get the upper 700s, around 730-780.
Writing around 600s. Anyone please give me some plans, schedules?
I have the Blue Book, but I dont wanna waste Practice Tests by doing sections separately.
Any ideas what I should do? btw, I learn 40 SAT words per day.</p>
<p>@sunlightz I don’t think the key is how many hours you study, but rather how effectively you use that time. I did well on both the SAT and ACT (you may want to consider the ACT also), and I found that the key was practice tests. Take a practice test every other weekend, at your local library if possible. Invest in a stopwatch or wristwatch that doesn’t beep. Be strict to the second with the time limit, and eventually you should be able to take the test without time being a major factor. (If time is already not a major factor for you, then the next step is probably especially important.)
When you finish the tests, grade them, photocopy the pages and cut out the questions. Tape them to one side of a flash card and on the reverse side put the correct answer and an explanation in your own words about why that answer is correct. Study the flash cards whenever you have a spare moment (e.g. during TV commercials, in the car, on the bus etc.). </p>
<p>@CaptainAmerican Same advice, make sure the vocab you are learning also goes on flash cards, you don’t want to forget it, especially if you are learning that many words a day! CR is the hardest score to raise, but keep at it, try reading a lot in general this summer. Sparknotes publishes a series of novels you may be interested in designed specifically for the SAT (<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/satfiction/”>http://www.sparknotes.com/satfiction/</a>). I personally have never used them, but they have been recommended to me. Good luck to both of you! </p>
<p>Thank you all!! But do you think July August September is enough time ?</p>
<p>Question for @soze; how many hours for a 2300? 2350?</p>
<p>To get a 2300 you need to study at least 26 hours a day.</p>
<p>As I said above, the OP’s question was ridiculous.
So I gave a ridiculous answer.</p>
<p>You should take a practice test and see what your baseline score is. Being a good test taker helps but to improve much more than 200-300 pts is really difficult even with a private tutor. </p>
<p>1 hour/day for about 5 days of math would be sufficient.
Grammar is completely different story. I have no idea. D. said that English section (ACT) was a common sense and she got 35 out of 36 (ACT) on this one without preparation aside from getting familiar with the format. </p>
<p>@soze - my last post was supposed to have a smiley face to indicate I knew that you knew that your post was ridiculous and that I was playing along. Sorry it didn’t show up and no judgment was intended.</p>
<p>OP, that’s extreme. I got a 2270 (superscore, 2 times) with studying less than an hour a day for just the week before.
It isn’t about the amount of practice; it’s about the quality. If you’re weak in math then the time would actually be helpful for you to learn the material. And like @MiamiDAP said, english comes more naturally to some of us, but you can practice (and more importantly, read the answer explanations) to improve your score. A friend of mine improved his score from the low 500s to a 730 with some tutoring.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree don’t go crazy with studying, it’s overrated. I never studied, I just took the test a few times and my score went up. I took the PSAT twice and the SAT twice and my score jumped from a 180 (1800) to a 2240 (2250 superscore). I’m sure if you just take the test a few times you’ll do fine. Actually I think there is even a book with old tests in it if you really want to study something. If you take one or two of these I’m sure you’ll see the sore jump your hoping for. Good Luck!!! </p>
<p>@captain American. My son’s CR was a 590. I put him on a study schedule over the summer. He took the CR and Math portions of the blue book under a timed setting… all 10 of them… before school began. For every section I started the timer at two minutes…instead of 0… so that he had to learn how to move faster to finish. THe last two tests I started at I minute lapsed. He did nothing else til September… 3 weeks before SAT we did one more practice… math and CR only. Used real time so he could see he had conquered the time management problem. Never studied any vocab… but after 11 tests he did say questions were all starting to seem familiar. took exam and first time ever did he finish CR sections…was hoping for a 750. He made a 800! His brother… a freshman… plans on using same technique. Do all CR tests in bluebook under timed setting and give yourself less time for first five or six tests to increase your pace.</p>
<p>@gasenioryear but do you see that the SAT is merely a test, and not in itself the material that one ought to learn? I see nothing wrong with practice tests but <em>studying</em> for the test, especially from freshman year (speaking as a rising sophomore), may have negative long-term effects.</p>
<p>Not that I deserve to talk in this convo with a pretty low SAT score, but I strongly suggest memorizing as many vocabulary words as you can for the CR. I try really hard to finish the sentence comps in about 2 minutes and the short passages in 1 minute each, and then spend the rest of the time going over the long passages meticulously. For math, PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. there’s a reason why Asians are good at math. Practice every sections until you really feel disgusted by the problems. For writing, going over your grammer is the major section you need to focus on. </p>