<p>Night without hw = sat prep time.</p>
<p>hitting BB for test review and hopefully a D chung test before sleep today.</p>
<p>@Haphazard, gimme the link for sparknotes errors?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>@ChillyPenguin, you can search it on Google. “7 deadly errors sparknotes”</p>
<p>I seriously might consider changing to the November SAT date.</p>
<p>Have been doing lots of SAT stuff but my scores have actually been dropping…got 3 wrong in one CR section and 2 wrong in the math section. I’ll do a writing section today and post how it went!</p>
<p>I definitely don’t feel prepared enough, but dammit I will conquer this beast. I’m still in school. I finished my Calc homework for tonight. I still need to stay after school. I’ll be home around 4:30. I’m going to finish reading for classes and start going through the blue book. Afterwards I plan on reading direct hits for 45 min and writing a mock essay after memorizing my template. All in all, I plan on doing roughly 3.5 hours of prep today. I’ll maybe do more if I have some more motivation.</p>
<p>Keep on doing what you’re doing man.</p>
<p>Just the fact that you’re going through all this shows that even if you don’t get the best SAT score ever, you’ll have an edge on kids once you get to college in that you’ll be motivated to stay on top of your work. </p>
<p>I’m in a somewhat similar situation. I scored a 170 on the PSAT junior year and a 1760 on my first practice SAT about 9 months ago. October is my last chance to hit my goal, which is also a 2100. I’d like it in one sitting but I’d take a 2100 superscore too. </p>
<p>I really haven’t prepped that much since the June SAT but I’m starting to get in the groove of things. I’ve done 2 sets of just math sections and I’ve scored 660-700 and 680-720. I know that I know enough math to score 750+ but I either make so many careless mistakes or just run out of time. For now I’m just gonna take it easy and get all my regular homework done, but tomorrow I’m gonna do some writing sections and see what happens.</p>
<p>Update: I didn’t get a chance to do the mach essay, however, I did do a few sections and read some DHs. I did 1 of each: Writing MC, Math, and CR out of the blue book. Here is the breakdown: Writing MC: 30/35. I missed 5. Math: skipped 3 and couldn’t go back due to time constraints and I missed 1 question, so that’s 16/20 with 1 missed and 3 omitted. CR: I got 20/24 correct. I missed 4, two of which were sentence completions and the two were passage based questions. I read direct hits for 35 minutes and read/studied around 44 words in the 35 min. I took the little quiz at the end and score 10/10 zero errors.</p>
<p>I wish I could hit at least a 2000+ like you guys! Anything above a 2000 is perfectly fine with me. Do you guys have any tips? I seem to be stuck in the 1700-1800+ area and I have the October SAT coming up… <em>dread</em></p>
<p>Good-luck to you guys on getting your 2100+ though! :)</p>
<p>yeah guys, good luck…haha, time is running out…one more chance gotta make it count</p>
<p>reviewing BB again and again. apparently that’s good stuff to use!
other than that, chung’s on my spare time.</p>
<p>I have a few upcoming tests, but I plan on doing 1 of each section today, mach essay, and 35 minutes of DH reading.</p>
<p>Update: I read 30 minutes worth of Direct Hits; I took the quiz at the end of the section, which was about 20 or so words, and scored a 10/10. I did a timed math section out of the Blue Book, which was the 20 min 16 question one for test #9. I got 12/16 correct and missed 4. I kind of wish that I had gotten PWN the SAT: Math instead of Dr. Chung’s. I guess I’ll have to go over Gruber’s once again this weekend. I may or may not do a mach essay and CR section tonight. I nearly finished with my homework, but I have a few upcoming tests that I have to study for. I’ll try my best to at least do a CR practice section.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any tips on learning new words? I know like almost nothing.</p>
<p>@ MrWolf, Have you tried quizlet? It really depends on what kind of learner you are, but repetitive exposure is always a good route. I’d create flash cards using quizlet and practice that way. Personally, I’m just reading direct hits. </p>
<p>Update: I have to study for a few tests that are tomorrow. It’s unlikely that I’ll get a chance to prep today. Most of my day was also taken over by ECs. I’ll probably do double prep tomorrow if I don’t have to stay after school for stuff.</p>
<p>Update: just got home. I think I did well on my tests today. I’m gonna take a nap for a few hours and then hit the books. I’m definitely doing a few hours of SAT prep today, so expect an update later with score breakdowns.</p>
<p>@Haphazard I have heard about quizlet but don’t know where to look for words/prefixes. Can you recommend any sources that helped you a lot?</p>
<p>Honestly, nothing has helped me a lot so far. I’m still struggling to score above a 610 in CR. if you’re scoring like around a 500, then I could maybe help you. If I were scoring above a 700, then I’d definitely have lot of advice to offer.</p>
<p>Doing the same thing over and over again is not going to lead to more than incremental improvement in your scores, guys.</p>
<p>You need to engage in metacognition and evaluate your thinking process.
Are there any heuristics you should be using? Do you truly know how to use your calculator (for example, have you mastered the equation solver)? Do you have an internal checklist of things to look for in the reading and writing sections, or are you just pushing through au naturale? Have you tried understanding english grammar instead of just learning the basic rules? Have you tried downloading the online list of 10000 SAT words to learn and just grabbing a notecard to cover the definitions and ran with it?</p>
<p>Just some suggestions if you feel like the practice tests aren’t producing any yield. >.></p>
<p>^What Philovitist said.</p>
<p>Conscious practice is the only way you will improve. Repetitive, brainless exercises will lead you nowhere. I know you are using your brain for these things, but are you truly dissecting every single question? Do you analyze every mistake and then look for a pattern which you can then actively avoid? For instance, instead of just brushing off an incorrect answer in math as a “silly mistake,” figure out why you make those types ofmistakes. Often, reading the question multiple times while underlining keywords, writing down all of your work and double checking to make sure your work and results make sense based upon the original question will improve your performance significantly.</p>
<p>Update: Writing MC: 32/35, math: 16/18. 7/8 and 9/10. Didn’t do any CR or direct hits.</p>
<p>Update: I finished a majority of my homework. Basically, I only have to read over the weekend. I finished all of the written stuff. This gives me plenty of time to prep this weekend. I’m about to read DHs for 35 min, and do a few practice sections. I may read over academic hacker’s 12 in 10 days. I have a template in mind for the essay, but I need to practice and memorize it. I’ll also be going over my previous mistakes this week on the individual sections.</p>