<p>Give me advice! I never have time to check my answers and sometimes fall short of finishing
Scores:
March math- 710
June math-710
I NEED TO IMPROVE!!!NEED ADVICE>> I read through merudh's website on ti-89 solve functions and stuff but anymore advice would rock my world!!! I'd be happy with 750+ but because of the curve it seems like I'll have to get near perfect for that...help plz...</p>
<p>Practice man! Your speed will improve and you will have time to check your answers (plus you will know the material better). Kaplan published a book with 12 practice tests and PR with 11, try thoes.</p>
<p>no don't do those. Do Collegeboard's tests only. Start w/ the NEW SAT Blue book, & if you finish that go to the REAL SATs red book. </p>
<p>Don't bother w/ TI-89 functions...those who score an 800 on math (myself included) barely use the calculator. Look for the common traps, & once you know what they are you can move quickly through the easy ones. Practice, practice, practice.</p>
<p>Dont depend so much on the calculator.</p>
<p>For one, I think hyper2400 has done the blue book and the real sats book has SO MANY questions that are the same as the blue book.</p>
<p>Just be careful and read the question thoroughly. And don't immediately go with your first response, because in a timed test someone usually sticks with their initial response and doesn't read the question very thoroughly and hence screws up.</p>
<p>Only practice will make you fast. I had that sort of problem when I started preparing but when I took the exam I had plenty of time. Also in the process of practicing to go fast you will get to know the sorts of questions that come up, and then you won't have to think about how to answer them. Most questions should be intuitive.</p>
<p>It is very good advice to use your calculator less, and practice with the new official SAT blue book.</p>
<p>-Practice is a def, but assuming you practiced enough:</p>
<p>-Don't use your calculator often (I always practice without one...every single question can be done without a calculator). If you want one to check, there should be only around 1-3 questions in each section that should needed to be checked with a calculator.</p>
<p>-Work fast, but not too fast. My killer is that I always fly through the math and finish in around 10 minutes (in a 25 min section) and end up making one or two careless errors. I realized that if I took my time and finished instead in 15~20 minutes I can very easily eliminate those mistakes. </p>
<p>-Oh yes, don't fall for Joe Bloggs answer choices =)</p>
<p>Joe Bloggs answer choices??</p>
<p>Joe Bloggs = a PR word they use for stupid, too-good-to-be-true answer choices.</p>
<p>Any good review books? I did all of collegeboard practice tests and materials; Is rocketreview good?</p>
<p>I did a practice book (kaplan's one) and took ap calc ab in my junior year - it helped - I went up from 660 to 800 :)</p>
<p>If you make a lot of calculation mistakes - use a calc for ALL the calculations (25*4, 3^3, ...).
TI89 (or TI83) is not needed below math 2c.</p>
<p>First time I took it, i was pulling my calc for everytime i could use it and i got 740. i finished like 15 min early every section but it didnt help my score.</p>
<p>Second time I took it, I decided to write quick notes on paper. I think I filtered out careless mistakes by doing this and ended up getting a 0 wrong/omitted 800 and I probably only spent 1-2 minutes extra writing stuff on paper. You don't need fancy calc tricks.. Trust me. I got an 800 SAT1-Math, 800 SAT2-Math2c and I only used calc to do some multiplication and for SAT2 just know how to use graphing alternatives to finding solutions(like zeroes, intercepts, etc.). </p>
<p>Best tip for getting 800's: Use/build your math intuition. Intuition along w/double checking are the only two skills you need to do well on SAT Math. When I say build math intuition, I don't mean memorize random formulas. Understand how problems work, and if you don't get it, learn the concepts, not the formulas. You should feel comfortable so that even if you've never seen a problem like that before, your math intuition will kick in and you've feel your way around the problem and figure it out.</p>
<p>Confusing post, maybe someone can clear it up for me.. im still on painkillers after getting my wisdom teeth out!</p>
<p>Thank you all for the advice so far! If anyone has any more suggestions to offer don't hesitate...</p>
<p>How about self-analysis (not psycho-)?
Take regualarly math sections from BB tests (and other reliable sources) timed and see where you failed - and not just wr/om.
As cofidential said, see where your intuition did not kick in, like not seeing a shortcut, or where you did not identify a cluster a question belongs to (and, consequently, did not apply a concept), check for all the traps you fell in and those you avoided.
Keeping notes would be real helpful - you might discover patterns in your underperforming.
Try both appraches for calculations - excessively using a calc, or otherwise, jotting everything on paper.
Please share your experience!</p>
<p>One more: after solving a medium/hard question, play with it - change some conditions, make up similar and more generic and more difficult ones (post those too), find questions from previous tests where you used similar techniques, etc.
Intuition develops where your prior knowledge works for you without your realizing it.</p>
<p>Thank you for advice :)</p>
<p>Meditation is key. Be one with the numbers.</p>