<p>So the October SAT is less than two months away. That is not alot of time! I am working full time this summer so all I have is 3/4 hours aday to study (night time when i come home, minus the time i spend online :D). During those hours I get distracted easily and does not feel motivated for I am very lazy. For example I would rather read rocket review and throw off doing practice questions, which is okay cuz rocket review offers great strategies. BUT I HAVE TO APPLY THEM! Ahhh I rlly need motivation and can yall help me to devise a study plan?</p>
<p>I have these materials at home:
1. Blue Book, but all the practice tests were taken in preparation for my may SATs
2. Rocket Review (1 PT in there)
3. Barrons 2400 (questions all done)
4. 2 Practice PSATs (Reading questions done)
5. 07-08 college board practice test
6. Kaplan Premier Program 2008 (nothing done there, I heard kaplan is awful)
7. McGraw Hill Raise SAT CR Score in 3 Minutes a Day
8. Barrons Reading and Math workbooks (Reading questions practically all used up)</p>
<p>My SAT Scores:
March 2008
CR: 580 M:740 W:590 (1910)
May 2008
CR: 550 M:710 W:610 (1870)
Super Score (1930)</p>
<p>My Target:
CR: 650 M:800 W:700 (2150)</p>
<p>Also feel free to add any other books that might help :) THANKS!</p>
<p>Hearing your situation I think studying with a friend might be more distracting for you. I'm sorta in the same predicament though. I have the same ideal super score and target score and I already took the SATs once. But I see you've taken it twice. </p>
<p>What works me at least until I realize how close the test is, is to dedicate one day a week when you get home to preping, that way you can tell your self, "it's just for today, I can do whatever I want tomorrow." See I'm also working full days and I don't get home till like 7:15, and then I barely get a moment's peace between the billion things I have to do when I get home, I get around to exercising around 8 and I do that for an hour. Then when I'm finally in my PJs, it's like 9:30. To get a better night's rest I should be in bed by 10 (I wake up at like 5)but I'm usually not in until 11. I guess I just get distracted doing things. That's how it usually is for me,but on Wednsdays I don't exercise and try to forget about doing other things for a bit so I get down to doing SAT work.</p>
<p>It's just one day a week so I have to do it. It sucks not exercising though, but I give it up because I don't wanna take the SATs in November. Just one more time in October and I am done and going with my 2100. lol</p>
<p>Just think about how you want this time to be your last. I mean if you don't prepare now you have to do it eventually if want to achieve that score, so why not get it out the way so you want have to sit in a room for four hours taking it again. That's how I like to look at it. The less you prepare the more time you waste. </p>
<p>Also, if you have spare time in your commute to work as in you aren't the one driving or whatever, you should read "Up Your Score, the underground guide to SATs" It doesn't really have problems in it so it's like reading a book, but not in boring prep form. So this way if you're really are in a squeeze for time all you have to do is read when you get a moment, I've heard it's been pretty helpful and I love it so far.</p>
<p>If you need others to motivate you, then perhaps doing well isn't what you really want. We're motivated to do things when we desire it, so if you don't have that motivation, then you're never going to achieve your target scores.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. I consider myself to be highly self-motivated. I find no need to seek extrinsic motivation when all I need is the desire to succeed. I don't really associate this so much to pressure as just to my mentality.</p>
<p>Not trying to sound like an elitist, but I would highly suggest you ask yourself why you need external motivation to push you to succeed on your SATs.</p>
<p>people lose motivation all the time, they just need to take some time out and question themselves. You'll get your motivation back after you realize why you initially wanted to work hard for the SAT.</p>
<p>If you don't study hard for the SAT, you won't get into a decent college. If you don't get into a decent college, you won't get into a decent graduate school. If you don't get into a decent graduate school, you'll have to take a menial job with low pay and without benefits like health insurance. Members of the opposite sex will spurn you because you're a loser, so you will have no family. You'll have no money to go out, so you'll have no friends. Eventually, you'll get sick and, since you don't have health benefits, you will go into a death spiral. So there you have it . . . living alone, dying, in a small rented room with dingy, battered furniture and a bare light bulb, no friends, no family, eating cat food because that's all you can afford . . . and all because you weren't motivated to study for the SAT. There, how's that?</p>
<p>Mcdonalds open thousands of new restaurants every year. Although that number is declining, their turnover rate is still quite high. You can always commit to the art of flipping hamburgers and still manage to eat things other than cat food and have a couple of stoners as friends.</p>
<p>I understand your situation. I have the same target score.</p>
<p>I'm 99% sure that your lack of an 800 in math is due to silly mistakes. Just try to be more careful and PERUSE the questions thoroughly.</p>
<p>Good luck with Writing.</p>
<p>My score in reading is about the same as yours.
I have painfully come to the conclusion that the only way to increase your score is by READING BOOKS, despite all the contrary advice available here on CC.
All I do now with my time is force myself to read books. It works, I can feel myself getting smarter since I started reading. I can think more clearly and deeply.lol</p>
<p>Seeing as you can at least motivate yourself to read Rocket Review, why don't you just put your time into reading good books?</p>
<p>Think about it. Think different, be like Apple.</p>
<p>As someone who has a 1690 and aspires to attend prestigious universities, I feel terrible that I cannot motivate myself to study for the SAT. I hate myself.</p>
<p>Sushi,
It seems like you have more of a distraction problem than a motivation problem. I agree Lolilaughed and Quix -- motivation comes from within. I'm sure the desire you have is as much as anyone on this forum, which is why you have started this thread.</p>
<p>As for work ethic, I think it's good that you've set a specific goal. Now break that goal down. What will you need to achieve per week? How much studying will that take? Now what will you need to achieve every two days? Every day? Doing this helps you have a specific goal and task lineup for every day.
Get yourself away from a computer. Forums and online time are bad.
SAT studying isn't like finishing a set of math problems: you can go on forever, do as much or as little as possible. So you have to pretend like the specific workload you assign yourself every night is like math homework due the next day.</p>
