<p>I took the March SAT and got a score of 1870 (math-680, writing-560, cr-630) and I will be taking the May SAT in two weeks. I've completed all ten practise tests in the blue book (and even other additional old tests i've found online) for math&grammar (I even have a notebook with all the errors I've made and the reasons why for future reference) but I took a mock test yesterday and my score is still in the same range. This is making me extremely nervous and anxious. Does anyone have any tips or perhaps suggestions as to what I should do?</p>
<p>@ilikemuffins
What strategies are you using? While I completely recommend, and applaud, what you are doing with the Practice tests, the other side of the coins is changing your strategies and improving your overall knowledge of test-specific areas such as vocab, math, and writing. </p>
<p>The College Board is the best for the questions, but they’re not good for strategies IMHO, since they are vested in saying their test is not vulnerable to tricks.</p>
<p>On Writing, what are your essay scores, and how many are you missing on the multiple-choice?</p>
<p>@testadvice
I usually get 10s on my essays but I got an 8 on my March one. I was a little ill-prepared for my March test as I had not practised writing essays within two weeks of the test. That is definitely something I will be changing for the May test. For mc, I usually get about 10 wrong in total from all sections. </p>
<p>In terms of strategies, for writing & math, I just do a lot of questions then go back and try to understand my errors. I thought this would be really effective but it isn’t as effective as I thought it would be do you have any suggestions as to what other strategies I should try? For reading, I usually quickly browse through the questions and circle words/lines that the questions ask for in the passage. Then I read the passage after, stopping at the words/lines I circled to answer the questions. Do you have any tips for the reading section as well?</p>
<p>I like what you told me so far about what you do for reading. However, I would also encourage you to do some other things as well:</p>
<p>Unless it says “which” or “which of the following” in the question, cover up the answers and come up with your own answer. Do not make it sound fancy (no SAT words – use slang if you want, as long as it makes sense to you). Once you do that, match your answer with the other answers. It may take some practice to get the hang of it, but it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Also, take small notes in the margin of each paragraph. Jot down (using shorthand, don’t worry about spelling or grammar, just a few words is all you need) the main idea of each paragraph. Circle words that signal which direction the sentence is going in, such as "although, but, for example, in addition…"and underline key words. That same tactic works on the sentence completions and the essay prompt (to help avoid misunderstandings).</p>
<p>For Writing (multiple-choice) - Which rules are you usually missing. Are you missing faulty comparisons, tenses, pronoun reference, etc.?</p>
<p>Thank you! I will try that for my reading. For writing, I usually miss prepositions, sometimes tenses (I tend to get confused with the use of the present perfect), and the rest are phrases that I feel are awkward but apparently are not.</p>
do you have any suggestions as to what other strategies I should try? For reading, I usually quickly browse through the questions and circle words/lines that the questions ask for in the passage. Then I read the passage after, stopping at the words/lines I circled to answer the questions. Do you have any tips for the reading section as well?</p>