<p>HEy everybody I got a 1510...AGAIN on my Kaplan SAT test.. ARRGHH. I have June SAT coming up, and I procrastinated till May 1st, Im still get these 1500-1600s, Its going to take months for me to get into the 1800-1900s. :( What are my options?
What was the point of me taking ap courses, doing hw, when I'm just gonna score the same as any other highschool kid who did wayyyyy less work in school. I wasted my high sophmore and junior years doing work for nothing.</p>
<p>You need to relax, for starters. You didn’t waste your high sophomore and junior years; you gained a bunch of valuable knowledge that will carry you in college and life.</p>
<p>All you have to do is get down to business. Buy CollegeBoard’s blue book, take practice tests, and review both your right and wrong answers.</p>
<p>I HATE THE SAT TOO!!!
personally i think ACT is the most valid test because it actully tests material that a person should know before college. </p>
<p>for example:
English- learn how to identify and in the future write proper and concise english
math- up to precalc, so IMO if you get a 30+ you should be ready for calculus
reading- how to read for “business” not for pleasure which is essential because in college you must learn how to effectively read
science- problem solving </p>
<p>as for the SAT how is having just a strong vocabulary the key to succeeding in college and for the math section it is not relavent to have confusing questions like that. in physics, chem, and engineering the math you need to know is formuated</p>
<p>source: Me. who has a 4.37 gpa but got a 1700 on the SAT (540 CR, 600 M, 560 W) and then a 33 composite on ACT ( 34 E, 36 M, 30 R, 30 S). </p>
<p>PM me if you want any more thoughts about the ACT and strategies to score high</p>
<p>^I haven’t officially taken the ACT, but I’m sort of like this kid.</p>
<p>161 PSAT without study, high GPA and “the rest of the package.”
After studying for the SAT writing section, I am now at a 2030, which is what some kids get without trying -__-.</p>
<p>I think the ACT is more promising, and it MAY be for you too, since you are a “top student”</p>
<p>I know exactly how you feel
i have the whole package except I lack the ability to test well on SAT or ACT. I feel that all my work has been for nothing because I cant get into a decent college without a really good SAT or ACT score.</p>
<p>You can get into a decent college without a great SAT score. If everything else is good enough, you can get into pretty good colleges without a great SAT score. Sure, top 20 is probably a long shot, but the fact that you’re even considering the top 20 puts you above the vast majority of people.</p>
<p>As it’s been mentioned above, get a workbook that emphasizes specific sections on the SAT. I practiced the Math section of the exam, since it was my weakest, and managed to go from not finishing sections at all to completing them and having time to review my answers during exam time. However, if you don’t sit down with your workbooks, study diligently, and avoid various distractions like browsing the web, then you won’t be able to retain whatever you’re doing.
Get off CC and get to work.</p>
<p>I purchased the Kaplan and Princeton Review books to prepare. For subject-specific workbooks, I’d say something like Barron’s is your best bet. To be honest, I hated the Kaplan book, and the Princeton Review’s version was only slightly better. I managed to get hold of some of the Barron’s practice exams later in the course of my SAT studies, and they did far more for me than Kaplan’s endless emphasis on so-called strategies ever did.</p>
<p>"Well, that’s due to the fact that the ACT is an achievement test. "</p>
<p>and that should be the purpose of an entrance exam. for example look at the MCAT for medical school or the GMAT for business school. they test material that should be mastered before entry</p>
<p>btw can someone teach me how to quote i have been on this sight for about 8 months and i still dont know how to do so</p>
<p>Well I don’t really know. I feel that the SAT is a way for smart people to get an upper hand over the people who aren’t as smart but work harder. It has been shown in some studies that I’ve seen that the SAT does not correlate to college GPA as well as the SAT 2 or highschool GPA. So then what is it meant to test? “students preparedness for college” is what CB implies, but I only see it as an IQ related test. I feel that the ACT is a much better test.</p>
<p>It might be more bookworm-friendly, but the SAT tests reasoning in a way that the ACT does not - and cannot, given its nature as a knowledge-based test. Life isn’t knowledge based; it relies more wit, deduction, and thinking skills than knowledge of a few facts.</p>
<p>Subject Test scores are naturally more strongly correlated with GPA because both are products of self-selection (people pick their tests and their classes). And as the College Board likes to point out, SAT + GPA + Subject Tests yields the best prediction.</p>