<p>I am a high school junior, with As and Bs. I took the March 2011 SAT for the first time and scored exactly 1500. As of now, I have 54 days left for the June SAT and I am aiming to raise my score by at least 120 points on each section. I purchased the College Board Official SAT Study Guide and am practicing as much as I can. </p>
<p>My question is: Are there any better prep materials out there that will help me raise my score? In addition, what study tactics would you guys give me? From my observations, I see that the majority of the users are high scorers and I need immediate help with this.</p>
<p>Thank You :)</p>
<p>The test is very learnable - There are only a number of different type of questions. You pretty much have to learn how the SAT works - once you do that, you’ll start to get better and better and pick up on more subtle little tricks. One way of looking at the SAT is looking at it like a game. Figure out the week points and try to get a higher score every time :).</p>
<p>I don’t have the best score but this is what I did. I took 2 tests out of the Blue book to know what my level is at, and next I chose math, CR, or writing and only worked on those sections and looking back at why I missed them and how I can prevent it in the future. It’s absolutely crucial you figure out WHY you missed a question so you prevent yourself from making it in the future. Though you probably will make a mistake here and there and you may have covered it before, but the more practice you do, the better you’ll get. Just treat every mistake as a learning process and every right answer a reward. For the last 2 or 3 tests in the BB, take them to see your improvement.</p>
<p>Since you’re rather new, I would recommend looking at Silver Turtle’s guide to the SAT in the SAT prep section on this forum and learning the strategies in there. Good luck.</p>
<p>Definitely look at silverturtle’s guide. Best advice possible.</p>
<p>Another good book is Barron’s 2400. It will allow you to breeze through all the easy and medium difficulty questions so that you can focus and have more time for the hard questions that allow you to drastically improve your score.</p>
<p>Also, I did reasonably well on the test and my method was to take a complete practice test, then look at the types of questions i got incorrect and master them using the Barron’s book and repeat that process until all the question types were drilled into my head. </p>
<p>Its not studying that will make you do well, its studying well that will make you do well!</p>
<p>Do you live on Long Island by any chance? Because I am part of a student-run SAT prep course. All of the tutors have around 2300s+ and it’s pretty cheap as compared to all other programs. I know you probably don’t live around here, but if you do, :D</p>
<p>If not, try the CollegeBoard blue book, and just take as many practice tests as possible. Make sure to <em>go over all wrong answers</em> so that you know how to do/not do certain parts.</p>