Is it OK to use old SATs for practice?

Test Preparation
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<p>So here's the deal: I'm a sophomore who is about to take the PSAT (in two weeks). For the past month or so I've been studying with the Princeton Review and Grubers books. Both books came with practice tests, which I've been taking to get a general (since I know they weren't written by CB) idea of what I'd score on the actual test. I've been getting average grades and want to improve.</p>

<p>Besides the normal studying, I want to take as many practice tests as possible to get the feel of the timing constraints, as well as becoming accustomed to the test itself. Problem is, I'm running out of practice PSATs to take since there were only four or five of them. </p>

<p>Recently, my friend gave me some old SAT books for the heck of it. One of them, which is by the CB, is called 10 Real SATs (it's from 2001). As the title implies there are a ton of SATs in there I could use for practice, since I hear that the PSAT content is really similar to that of the SAT.</p>

<p>So my question is, would it be a good idea to use the 2001 SATs just for the sake of practice? Would them being that old matter? And yeah, I know about the quantitive comparisons and analogies, I'll most likely just ignore those parts.</p>

<p>Any opinions/advice welcome, and thanks for reading :) </p>

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<p>Well, the objective of the SAT is not exactly much different. But the issue with using old tests is the scoring system is different, as well as the kinds of questions you might see. It’ll be a good starting point if you have no other options. Just be warned, you might not get a clear score reading from taking those tests since you’d be throwing out the analogy questions.</p>

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<p>I see, thanks! I had no idea the old SATs were graded differently, so I’ll most likely just take some tests to review what I’m getting wrong, without really trying to score it. Hopefully that’ll help.</p>

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<p>Yeah, good for practice, but not useful for score diagnosis.</p>

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<p>I got the same reading section tasks last year that my brother got 3 years ago. so i think it’s good to practice on past papers)) </p>

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<p>Got it, thank you both!</p>