<p>I have a low SAT score...help?
Ok so i just got my PSAT scores back today an i got a 1430 out of 2400. So when I actually take my SAT's I'm looking at a 1500-1650 score. So will a poor SAT score keep me from getting into a decent college like VT or JMU?</p>
<p>Here are the rest of my credentials...
-NHS
-Music Honor Society
-Spanish Club
-Key Club
-200+ hours of community service
-Held a job for over a year
-I'm in all honor classes and have all A's and B's in them
-4.1 GPA
-Marching Band/Wind Essemble
-All County/District Band member</p>
<p>P.S this is my second time taking the PSAT's as a junior.</p>
<p>Study. Make a plan and stick to it. Take practice tests, time yourself. Also -set up a time now to take the ACT, once maybe twice. Some kids do better on one than the other …and schools with take either.</p>
<p>wow! that’s awesome! But can you please tell me how/where you prepped? Oh, and you said you had 9 months of prepping, was that the period of time from when you first took your SAT to like the 3rd or maybe 4th time you taken it? Like any extra info you can give me would be much appreciated, thx!</p>
<p>The PSAT told me I’d only get a 1650-1750 (It was 16 or 17 something, I just don’t really remember haha). However, the first time I took the SAT (with very minimal preparation- as in, skimming a book the night before at 10 pm), I got a 1920 and now the combined score I am sending in is a 2010. Don’t worry about what PSAT says! You’re fine!</p>
<p>9th months since my first test to my third one.
I don’t know if my way of prepping was the most efficient way but it surely worked for me. I memorized barrons 3500, finished like 4 workbooks for each section and when I was through with those workbooks, I erased them all and started from the beginning and repeated this until I got everything right in that book and took practice tests everyday. I own the most SAT prepbooks in my boarding school. This is probably a stupid way of prepping but I had no idea how to study then lol. I don’t know how to study efficiently so I did as much as I could and it worked. Do a bunch of practice tests and workbooks, memorize all the vocabs and you will surely improve!!!. :D</p>
<p>just some advice ( i dunno if anyone said this, i’m too lazy to read the thread), try the ACT. I got like a 1540(?) on the SAT, and then my best scores for ACT are Reading: 31, English: 31, Math:30 and don’t worry about the science. haha. good luck man</p>
