<p>A teacher at my son's suggests this - if you think you will break 1350 (Obviously not including the writing), then the best strategy is practice. Make copies of a sample test, sit down with a stopwatch on a Saturday and/or Sunday at the official testing time and take the test. Review your answers/mistakes. Repeat this practice until you achieve a perfect score on the test. Then make copies of a different practice test and repeat the sequence.</p>
<p>My son's friend raised his score from 1430 to 1550.</p>
<p>I recently memorized the sparknote's 1000 SAT word list and it helped out my verbal section a lot....especially the sentence completion. I used to be terrible at those. Now i average 0-1 wrong on those.</p>
<p>I don't really get everyone's consternation over how hard the SAT supposedly is. I got the Princeton Review book and gave it the once-over for a few hours the night before the test, and ended up with 2340. All I remember from the actual test was the fact that I ate an orange while writing it (peeled it with one hand on the sections without a calculator) and the girl sitting in front of me.</p>
<p>I don't think studying really helps, but i could be wrong. i didnt study a bit or even look at anything for advice before i took mine pretty early in junior year and got in the 2200s. i suppose i might have done better if i had studied, but most of my friends who studied didnt do as well as me.</p>