<p>I'm going into my junior year of high school and this month I have started taking the Princeton Review's LiveOnline SAT Prep course. I've only had 3 classes and I feel like I'm starting to get a good, new approach to the SAT. </p>
<p>However, I took my first Diagnostic Test and these were my results:
Critical Reading: 620
Math: 610
Writing: 430</p>
<p>I'm pretty okay with my CR and Math scores although I still want to get them to at least 700.</p>
<p>My writing score is really disappointing though. However, it's somewhat understandable since we have not done much work in my course on the Writing section yet. I'm still a bit taken back though because I took the PSAT my Sophomore year and scored a 61!</p>
<p>You can probably see why I'm content with my CR and especially content with my Math score since it has improved the most. It's just my writing score that's scaring me.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering if it's realistic to improve my CR and Math scores by about 100 each and my Writing score by at least 200 points by the time I take the SAT in November?</p>
<p>I'm yearning for around a 2000 on the SAT. I really don't want my SAT being the thing holding me back from getting into a great college since my GPA is about a 4.0 in advanced classes.</p>
<p>realistically, if you’re scoring under 1700 and are hoping to get into a good school, it probably won’t happen. Time is almost up, and with applications, you’ll find yourself with little to no time to take the test next year. But you say you have a 4.0 GPA, so I recommend taking the ACT.</p>
<p>The math section is 8th grade math… just remember it can be cryptic, making it tricky for even some seasoned AP calc veterans. Once you know how to read the problems quickly, you can solve them easily. It just takes practice. </p>
<p>As for critical reading and writing, I was able to improve those two by a combined 100 points without doing anything (maybe I was just lucky). </p>
<p>You have plenty of time… just don’t procrastinate and don’t let negative commenters put you down.</p>
<p>It’s definitely possible. I had a 165 PSAT in my Sophomore year and my scores are much higher. Writing is VERY easy to score well on. Get the blue book for the SAT use pages 101-102 and review them, every day, about two weeks before the exam. Guaranteed 700. Just make sure you memorize it. Start that now, but make ur you go hard on reviewing it everyday in the weeks leading to the SAT. Also, on Saturdays or other days, find time to take a writing practice.</p>
<p>Lol well the Princeton Review course did nothing for me. In the weeks leading up to the March SAT I bought Collegeboard’s Official Blue Book and gradually worked through about 5 practice tests. Practice practice practice!</p>
<p>Yeah exactly!! Especially with the math section going over questions you didn’t get before helps because you learn how to solve more and more problem types so the SAT is less of a surprise kinda. And for the most part, I did the practice tests by section. One day I would worked on all the writing, the next reading, and another day math. I just followed the times given at the beginning of each section.</p>
<p>Well I didn’t really practice writing essays. That’s probably why I only got an 8. And I didn’t study vocab at all…which is probably why my CR score is where it is lol. But I’m not really into the whole studying 3000 words for the SAT when you’ll be lucky if you encounter 5 of them. If you have the extra time and patience though, go for it! You’ll might get that many more questions right!</p>
<p>i studied Direct Hits vocab and it helped so much…only 268 words but I saw one or more in almost every single vocab question! it helped me considerably on the may sat’s i just took and i am very confident that my CR score went up because of it</p>
<p>To get the reading down, do the blue book and study there answer explanations very intricately. Especially with literary passages so that you get the feel of how the questions are asked, and what they’re looking for.</p>