<p>Based on my PSAT score, I'm pretty good at the other two, but awful at math. (80 reading, 61 math, 78 writing)</p>
<p>I don't know why it's so hard for me. :( I'm just not a very logical thinker. Is there some way I can better at this? I've been studying and studying and struggling, and still, the most complex problems completely escape me.</p>
<p>If you get the score breakdown on your test, you can tell what kinds of problems you are missing. You can then use books or something like Khan Academy to review those concepts.</p>
<p>BTW, 610 is not a terrible score.</p>
<p>It seems pretty terrible; many people on this website say that math is the easiest subject to get an 800 on…
I can’t even accomplish that though.</p>
<p>If you have a copy of the Official Guide to the SAT, also known as the blue book, then I would take 30 minutes or so to read the math review section, which is contained in chapters 15 - 18. I’m sure you know almost everything in those chapters, and you will remember them when you read them, but you just haven’t thought about them in a while, so when you’re taking the test, they won’t exactly spring forth in your mind as the best way to solve a problem.</p>
<p>After you do this, take some practice math sections, and review explanations for every answer of every question. It’s important to know why the answer is correct, and why other choices are wrong. Eliminating choices you know are wrong can really help you when you’re lost, so get good at it.</p>
<p>Our situations are pretty similar, my PSAT scores were 77CR, 65M, and 80W. I didn’t really do any math review until the night before I took the SAT in January (all I did for review was read chapters 15-18), and I ended up with a 770, which, for the January curve, was a single missed question, with all others correctly answered. You can certainly do it, good luck.</p>