I’m not sure how I should prep much anymore for the SATs. I keep getting stuck between the 1700-1800 range on practice SATs that I do at home. Moreover, I’m starting to have fears about the SAT especially when I work on Critical Reading sections. (Most fears are on losing time and losing concentration) 
To be honest I’m only a sophomore for now…but after the semester ends in May which is not that far away…I’ll be a junior. What’s nerve wracking is that I only have till the end of this year to make it to the 2000s on the current SAT since I heard about the changes to the SAT in 2016, and not all the changes are beneficial from my viewpoint.
I feel pressure from both sides currently: school and family. I don’t want to disappoint my family members with a low SAT score. I want to prove to my parents that I can make it above the 2000s just like my older sister had. In the small town that I reside today with only a few dozen of students in the graduating class making it to the high state-level colleges, I don’t want to be part of the trend of more than half of the graduating class that stays behind in the small town and attend the only public university there.
In truth, I want to see my scores grow as I continue to practice and practice. I don’t want to lose hope right away because then I would never see the end of it. I plan to take the May SAT in just 3 more weeks. Are there any helpful tips that will personally help me out here in the situation I’m facing? Thanks. 
Woah there! Yes, of course you should continue to prep for the SAT. You have an entire year to help raise your scores. It’s not going to happen overnight. I was in an actually very similar situation as you were, except for the ACT. When I first started taking ACT practice tests, I was scoring very low for my liking. After a couple months, I raised my composite score by 7 points. I’m taking a few more months of practice before my next real ACT, I’m hoping to score in the 95 percentile or above. If you’re not familiar with the ACT, raising your composite score by 7 is like raising your score by several hundred points on the SAT. All I have to say is relax. You’re actually starting to prep way before most kids. When the time comes, you should be more prepared than them, as long as you don’t burn yourself out. You can take the SAT all the way up till your senior year. Remember that you can technically take it as many times as you want. I’m about to take my third ACT in June. Colleges only look at your highest score that you send them. If you don’t get 2000 on your first try, don’t freak out!
OP might want to try the ACTs instead. Some students do much better on it. And, many schools now super score the ACTs too. It is more straight forward then the SATs.
Consider just for descriptive purposes that there are two types of students who do well academically-now I’m describing extremes for illustrative purposes (said to keep people from applying my example in concrete ways).
Student A has always tried to be the top of the class. She finds competiition a stronger motivatar than the academic material itself. In fact, she really isn’t that interested in the material but is good at gaming the exams-especially multiple choice questions. After the exam she pretty much forgets what she learned and doesn’t really think about it before she needs to study for tests or after the tests
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The other extreme:
Student B is inquisitive and interested in most school topics-studies for tests until she feels she knows the material but isn’t really much interested in going the extra mile to beat out others. Won’t study that extra bit to go for the top grade but will usually think about the material as teachers discuss it and she retains the information to use it or think about it. This student does not game tests in the sense that if she does not know an answer she won’t figure it out using grammatical structure of the question, she’ll move on to the next question. She will do less well with tests that have gutcha questions cause she is thinking about the topics and material rather than tricks of the test.
Student A will do better on the SATs and Student B will do better on the ACTs. Of course, most students are not on these extremes so choosing is more complex.
Thanks for the tips guys, it’s just that everything is moving kind of slow for me.
I would have never reached to where I am now if I hadn’t started prepping over last summer for the PSAT. During that summer I managed to grow 200 points in my score just by prepping from various books. So I took the PSAT and made a 175, I felt proud of myself then. By the time it was December I was already in the range of 1800s on the SAT. However things started to change around during the second semester. My second semester that I’m attending now has 2 AP classes, 1 pre-ap class, and an elective that has homework every night(Accounting II). Because I was so focused on my GPA…I kind of slacked off on SAT prepping. When I started to take a practice SAT to see where I rested on my level, I found that I had dropped into the 1700 range.
I have thought about taking the ACT but I’m kind of reluctant since I’m so attached to the current SAT because of how much time and effort I’ve put into preparing. I guess I just fear that my efforts will be in vain. 