<p>@Jaefosho,Haphazard, and Portalicious: I was just like you guys last year, I watched all the Ivy Dreams videos so many times! It used to motivate me somehow, I also used to watch videos showing students reactions to wonderful SAT scores and getting accepted at top colleges. Although those videos used to keep me on my toes, they are now counterproductive. They only worry me these days now that senior year is only two weeks away. </p>
<p>I am also grateful to you guys for keeping this thread going. It has really been an inspiration to me. I will probably join when I have balanced my lifestyle and conquered my once in a while procrastination. Anyway, gotta go hit the books… Thanks guys. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for your tips Portalicious. I’ve found that reading out loud really helps me focus. I know I can’t do that on the test, but I’m still going to talk to myself when I take the real test. Also, I like the idea of possibly going over the QOD’s.</p>
<p>@Haphazard, is the Barron’s CR book effective?</p>
<p>I’m tempted to watch the videos but I"ll watch them after I’ve taken the SAT’s.</p>
<p>I didn’t do anything today as I woke up late and spent most of my day taking care of other important things. On top of that, I managed to get myself a severe headache and threw up earlier, so I basically spent the last couple of hours resting. I feel a lot better now so tomorrow I’m going to hit the books hard.</p>
<p>Plan is to finish the test, review mistakes, re-learn the concepts I don’t know, memorize words, and write a practice essay.</p>
<p>5am, the Q on the 28th was difficult for me as well… Those are the types I have trouble with :(.</p>
<p>No problem, StayMotivated! We’re all in this together (cue cheesy disney song) and this thread has really helped me stay on track too! It’s good to be held accountable on a daily basis and have such a supportive group of people. I first found CC because a guide book recommended it for the comparing college and search tools, but I was instantly drawn to the forum. I basically thought it was a horrible place after looking at a few ridiculous ‘chance me plz gotta go ivy’ threads, basically the form.spring of college searches, but thankfully I came across the SAT section and Hap’s amazing thread. So glad I did! I’ll be here until the end and I take the test, get my results, and ultimately find out if they made the difference come decision time. I hope you guys will be here too.</p>
<p>As for college, I’m looking mainly at LACs. I’m a social sciences kind of girl and I think that would be the best environment for me. Many of the ones I’m interested in are very competitive, and when I realized I really wanted to go to one of them I knew my SATs had to come up. What about ya’ll?</p>
<p>Will definitely be on this for some time, really helped me be on track as well! </p>
<p>I’m trying for Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and an honors program here in NY called Macaulay’s Honors program. I know I don’t have a chance in any of those 3 but I just want to give it my best shot and hope for the best. If I get into Cornell…there are no words to describe how I would feel! Have to score at least 2100 to have a decent shot at the school…near impossible for me :(</p>
<p>Update: there was this documentary on CNBC that I HAD to watch lol. So, I didn’t do much. I only have 28 pages of direct hits to read, which will be first thing tomorrow. I finished the Kaplan geo primer, reviewed my mistakes, and flipped through a few pages of Gruber’s. Overall, not a very productive day. This is definitely not going to happen tomorrow, as I will seclude myself from electronics and surround myself with books. </p>
<p>Barron’s is aight lol. Sorry, I had to use some Ebonics there. ;)</p>
<p>I’m more of a science person. So I’m going to be a pre-med. I’m quite empathetic, and cannot bear to see people in any type of pain, so I want to do everything in my power to help people. Schools I’m looking at, albeit most will be reaches: GaTech(I’m instate, so I’ll get a scholarship at the end of my senior yr.), Brown, Cornell, JHU, Boston College, a few schools with 7/8 year MD programs, Boston College, and maybe Emory. I was admitted into the Emory pre-college program at the end of junior year, but staying on campus for 6 weeks was pretty expensive. I ended up calling for financial aid, and they only offered me $1000; I told the admissions counselor to take me off the list unless they were going to offer me anything more, as costs were nearly 6k for 6 weeks. My cousin got into Emory for grad school, and they offered him little financial aid. He’s from cal, so out of state wasn’t going to help him any. He got into Yale, and ended up there.</p>
<p>Would you guys recommend any SAT IIs? The only one I think I could do ok on is Lit, but a lot of schools either recommend or require two. If I somehow manage to pull my normal SAT math up would the Math I test be a good idea? Or is that so easy (comparatively, not for me obviously) that it would be pointless? I didn’t take advanced US history or anything and I’m horrible at science and french, so IDK what to do. I just don’t want to not be able to apply somewhere because I didn’t take them and I think as long as I do ok on them, not great but if I managed to do ok, they might consider me in a holistic process. So any advice?</p>
<p>Most of the schools/programs I’m looking at require two or three SAT2s. I’m planning to take them in Nov. I think I may take bio M and Math 1 or 2. I, personally, don’t think I’d be good at Lit or any of the others that are offered.</p>
<p>Update: finished DH v.1, I’m almost finished with Gruber’s. I only have 100 pages left, which I’ll be done with tonight. I’m opening direct hits 2 later, and also will work through Barron’s if time persists. Tomorrow I’m taking a full length test fosho.</p>
<p>For subject tests I think I’ll be taking Chem and Math in junior year and physics by the end of senior year. But is there any point in doing that? Colleges I apply ED to won’t see it so everything I do in my junior year is all that counts?</p>
<p>Update: I was delayed due to a few things happening today, so I didn’t get through all of Gruber’s. I went through 198 pages today. I did every set of practice exercises and read the lessons. When I went through Gruber’s a long time ago, I only did the diagnostics to see where I stood. That trivial idea obviously led to no successes. I’ll finish Gruber’s tomorrow morning. Then I’ll finally officially start on Chung’s. Definitely taking a practice test tomorrow to see where I am currently.</p>
<p>it took me 2-4 months to go from a 600 on the sat math 2 to an 800, so If you work hard, you will probably get similar results on the sat. I wasn’t working that hard, but I was doing at least 2-3 hours a week.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t have 2-4 months. I think I’m gonna have to step up and put in a lot more hours. Chilly, what problems do you have? What do you not understand? I’ll be glad to help you out in whatever way I can. After a year in which I learned nothing in precal, I think it’s impressive that I’m grasping the material. My precal teacher didn’t even teach us the trig stuff, so it’s a bit confusing when I’m in class. Most of my peers had a different teacher that actually taught them the trig stuff and had them memorize it. I memorized the stuff over a year and half ago, but I forgot some of the unit circle lol. I think I’m starting to remember it again though. By the way, we are nearly finished with the differentiation chapter.</p>
<p>I’ve started studying some precalc, isn’t it mostly related to limits? That’s all I’ve covered so far (I’m using Khan Academy). School hasn’t started for me yet so I’ve been self studying that for about a week. </p>
<p>Jugglingkid: What did you do to prep for the math 2? I want to take that by the end of junior year/start of senior year so I have about a year to prep but I don’t know where to start!</p>
<p>im actually thinkin about dropping it, but i am learning 3.5 limits (infinity) and one sided limits. I mean if i had someone go through it with me daily id be more than good. but the thing is that no one teaches me (teacher included) and most of my “smart” friends are jerks when it comes to teaching other people. </p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t drop it. I’ve struggled with math most of my life, but I think I’m gonna go through with calculus. I can help you out, as walk you through problems. My cousin, he got into Yale, UPenn, UCLA, Brown, and a few other good schools, told me never to drop a class in high school. I understand that it’s a matter of passing/failing, but I think that if put enough time and effort into it, then you’ll pass the class with an A or B. I’ve honestly not learned anything the last three or so years in math, which is probably why I’m struggling to score a 600 on math portion of the SAT. Anyways, I’ll explain what exactly an infinite limit is, and how to find/detect if there is one. Gimme a sec.</p>
<p>So what exactly is precalc? How do you use trig in it? Like trigonometry you discover the trig functions and how to apply them. What is the goal of precalc? I always thought it was only limits and very little to do with trig but I’m so confused now</p>
<p>One sided limits: Basically asks what is y approaching as the limit approaches x from the left or right side. also, take note that x---->c+ means approaches from the right side, and x---->c- means approaches from the left side.</p>
<p>2 types of discontinuity:
1.) Removable - something that we can remove; canceling factors off.
2.) Nonremovable - i.e. f(x) = 1/x is nonremovable at x = 0.</p>
<p>Limits at Infinity - Basic idea and shortcuts:
i.e. Lim x—> infinity (3x^2+5x+4)/(x^3+7x).
step 1.) look to find highest power in denominator, which in this example is x^3, and divide everything in the problem by x^3.
2.) everything turns into zero in the numerator, and for the denominator you are left with 1 + 0.
3.) The limit is 0/1, so the limit is zero.</p>