<p>I'm a junior and I have taken the January SAT and I am also going to be taking the MArch SAT in about 2 weeks. Math is my best subject and is my highest. However I want nearly perfect, and same with writing. However, my writing score isn't great. But my critical reading score is horrible! Please help me. How did you guys study/ improve your SAT scores? I took elite classes summer/ winter boot camp and now I'm self studying. Overall, I probably took more than 20 practice tests but I feel like I am hopeless. Should I just give up on the SAT and work on ACT? Any tips Or suggestions will help a lot!!</p>
<p>Don’t try to do everything at once. Find patterns in the mistakes you’re making and try to fix just a few things at a time. If you get one fewer question wrong per section on the 8 multiple choice sections on the test, that’s about a 100 point improvement. Do that a few times, and you’re really in business!</p>
<p>If Reading is your weakest subject, why is that? Are you missing questions because you don’t know vocabulary words? Are you consistently picking choices in the Reading Comp that aren’t actually explicitly mentioned in the passage? These are common mistake patterns that can be fixed with practice.</p>
<p>In Writing, be on the lookout for the most common kinds of questions: verb agreement errors, pronoun agreement errors, parallelism. If you get all of those right every time, chances are your score will greatly improve, and you’ll be able to afford missing the occasional idiom.</p>
<p>The value of a practice test isn’t really the taking of it, it’s the reviewing. It’s so important to go back over the test after you’ve taken it to try to understand deeply every mistake you made. Find the patterns, and fix them. That’s how you improve.</p>
<p>My son took the SAT for the first time in MArch 2011 and was devasted that he got 1870(620/640/610,9 essay and 58 MC). He is a smart kid with several AP/accelerated courses ,a principal honor roll student and above 4.4 GPA. Would greatly appreciate any inputs from parents/students who have suggestions to make that could help him in improving his test taking skills.
Thanks.
A concerend parent.</p>