<p>This has been my goal ever since I've known about the test, and it's driving me mad.
This value of the score has been compounded by the fact that my GPA is in the toilet thanks to a lazy Sophomore year.
I've spent the last summer preparing for this test and I've taken around 12 or so practice tests, but I feel I am a little short of the score I need.
I've managed to get 2250 on about 4-5 of those tests, one 2200, and one 2260. My biggest problem is that I'll always blow it on one section, one week I'll get 790 Writing, The next week my score will be 800 Math, 780 CR, 670 Writing.
Leading up to the October test, this pattern has not really changed itself.
Right now, I'm worrying myself to death as I'm sure I've missed 1 Math and 3 CR... desperately hoping for a 780M 760CR 760W situation right now. </p>
<p>The problem is I can't spend much of my time focusing on this. My schedule is already pretty packed as it is, as I get home around 5:30 every day and AP Physics + AP Comp Sci + Precalc + AP Lang don't leave much time to worry about the SAT. I have a bunch of very important tests coming up -namely a Physics test ON THE DAY WE GET OUR SCORES (OCT 29). This test rumored by the Seniors to be the hardest of the year (with outstanding students getting scores in the 60-65% range O.o). </p>
<p>Last night I had a dream I got my score. (2350) Then I woke up and it was back to worrying.</p>
<p>Calm down. Relax. Concentrate on your school work, E.C. and other things (Physics if the rumor is true). Don’t let the anxiety from the SAT get to you. The only thing to make time go by faster is to occupy your time with other things.</p>
<p>^I agree, just try to focus on your current work. The SAT is done, you can’t change it now. You can, however, prepare yourself for that physics test and ensure you do well on it (or better than most, anyway, if it really is that difficult). If you have time, try to do things you enjoy that take your mind off of it. You can make it! :)</p>
<p>Relax Tell a sibling or a parent to give you a shoulder massage! Take a nice long, warm shower! Don’t stress yourself out too much. I know somebody who developed 2 tumors because of that…</p>
<p>Unless it’s for your own personal satisfaction, but for college admissions you won’t need it. Go to the decision threads of whatever school you’re looking at and read through them and you’ll realize that 2300+ is not that meaningful.</p>
<p>wow . . . nice to have a goal, but . . . three things</p>
<p>1) some perspective:about 6,000 people in the country get a 2300 or better; maybve you are really one of the top 12,000 in coiuntry instead (2350 and above); if so, relax and celebrate your considerable victory (top 1% of students!!!)</p>
<p>2) anxiety probably impedes your performance;find a way to relax</p>
<p>3) a college will admit you because of all that you do, and you will not be rejected just because you got a 2250 instead of a 2300; HYP rejects about 3/4 of those with 2300s and above anyway </p>
<p>I’m in exactly the same situation. I sometimes score well on individual sections but lose on others. There’s also no single section I excel at constantly. Sometimes its math sometimes its CR. </p>
<p>Is there anyone who was in a similar situation?</p>
<p>The problem is that if it is reflecting my skills, then it’s rather unclear why my scores fluctuate between 720-800 all the time on all sections.</p>
<p>1- fluctuation is to be expected, plus or minus 30 points, because each score you get is really within an accuracy band that’s about 60 points wide; so someone with a “true” score of 750 should return scores that fluctuate between 720 and 780; that’s because the testing mechanism just isn’t any more accurate than that</p>
<p>2 - you might be the kind of person who when tested for that amount of time simply does worse on the test than if you took the three tests at three different settings; there is nothing bad about that; I’d guess that most people are able to do their best with days long rests periods between sections</p>
<p>here’s what the College Board says about the accuracy of SAT tests:</p>
<p>[Compare</a> Scores](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/compare]Compare”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board)
How do I know if a student did better on critical reading, writing, or mathematics?
Because the average SAT score for both critical reading and mathematics is near the midpoint of the score scale, it is easy to compare the two. However, when comparing scores, remember that the student’s true score is not a single number—a test-taker may score slightly higher in one area but still be equal in both skills. </p>
<p>To consider one score better than another, there must be a difference of 60 points between the critical reading and mathematics scores, 80 points between the critical reading and writing scores, and 80 points between the mathematics and writing scores. </p>
<p>They also say this:
Scores are an approximation rather than precise measures of skill. Use the score range to get a better picture of a student’s performance. The score range usually extends from 30 points below the score to 30 points above, showing where a student’s score would probably fall if the student took the test again in a short period of time. Any score within the range is considered to demonstrate the same level of ability as the score the student received.</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>P.S.The take home message: just do your best, and the score numbers will take care of themselves.</p>
<p>i know exactly how you feel. my entire high school career has been a downhill struggle for me, as I lose papers constantly, and my teachers were incredibly harsh. I have a BC Calculus teacher right now who is giving me a D+ and i understand EVERYTHING in that class. My own parents said to me “It really shows your intelligence if you can’t get past a D+ in that class and you study like you do (pretty hard)”. With my own parents calling me stupid, i had more of an incentive than ever to get a 2300 for the Oct test. but if it doesn’t happen, i go right back to nearly failure in school and ridicule from my own goddam n family.</p>
<p>haha, looking back over that post, it seems very overdramatic and pu$$y-ish to me, but a guy can’t go very far being called dumb by his own parents yet being capable of so much!</p>
<p>Focus on schoolwork. SAT isn’t everything, though it is important and I do understand your anxiety here because of the GPA situation. But as mentioned many times, 2250+ looks just as impressive as a 2300+. Seriously those 50 pts are matters of luck, so… yeah don’t stress.</p>
<p>But if you really are determined to boost SAT score,
Practice
Practice
Practice</p>
<p>Seriously. No better remedies. We all know that many institutions guarantee to teach you the “best” methods out there to unearth the secrets of the SAT, but everyone has his/her own approach to achieving that perfection. Without practicing, you won’t know what your weak point is, therefore unable to improve. </p>
<p>Read widely. Political and scientific articles, fictions, biographies, etcetc. </p>
<p>Just wondering, are you a junior/senior? </p>
<p>RELAX. You’ll be okay. Thinking about it isn’t gonna change your past performance anyway, so just let it go.</p>
<p>Is this a joke? Someone pointed out 75% of 2300 plus kids get rejected. How do you explain that 50% of 2400’s get accepted into Harvard?</p>
<p>In addition, I am claiming that 2200’s get rejected even more than 2300 kids. </p>
<p>That’s no reason to not hope for a 2350. Would YOU really not want a 2350 just because 75% of 2300+ kids get rejected? I think not. Every little bit counts and you know you want it; so, stop using those facts to discourage!</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the support… It is useless to dwell on this when it’s to going to change what happens on thursday… but I can change what I get on upcoming tests IN school.</p>
<p>I guess the 2300 thing is more of a personal goal since everyone is saying that it’s not that significant of a wall to break.</p>
Tell a sibling or a parent to give you a shoulder massage! Take a nice long, warm shower! Don’t stress yourself out too much. I know somebody who developed 2 tumors because of that…</p>