<p>So, I'm going in to my senior year and I'm currently off for the summer. I tried studying for the SAT a few days before, but I was just so distracted and couldn't focus too long. But I want to change that! I want to start studying really hard from now on, but I feel like I don't have much time. It's already July 9 tomorrow, and I feel like I'm gonna keep procrastinating. It depresses me to think that im gonna waste my whole summer and then regret not studying..Any advice to stop procrastinating? Can I in fact raise my score drastically? Any advice to keep me motivated? How did you get a high score(please be detailed) Thanks!</p>
<p>That’s a really big jump. I am trying to increase my score about 400 points and I am killing myself (2 hours of computer for the whole day). I spend about 8-9 hours a day dedicating myself to this test. I know… people will be like *** is wrong with you. But, these skills are going to be with you for the rest of your life. So study now and so you don’t have to suffer in the future. </p>
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<li><p>Create a schedule that you can stick to. Don’t overwhelm yourself in one day. Slowly pick up the pace. Even if you are SUPER motivated on the first day, do it gradually. Because you are going to loosing your motivation for the following days. Give yourself a break after sitting in the chair of an hour.</p></li>
<li><p>Delete Facebook. This was life changing for me. Facebook is nothing but sharing what you are doing. You can always get back to it after you’re done with you SAT. Its not going to disappear. Deactivate your old one for the time being and create a temp. from which you benefit from. Like study groups or keeping with articles (science… history…) </p></li>
<li><p>Lessen your entertainment time. Hanging out with you’re friends, going to movies, reading manga. Remember. You can always get back to it.</p></li>
<li><p>Look, if you can achieve your goal ( +2000) in 2 weeks or 1 month or 2 months, nobody is going to stop you from doing these things. </p></li>
<li><p>Always remember that this test is going to be life-chaning. Getting into a good college. Don’t have to go into college debt. </p></li>
<li><p>Practice a test and spend the next two days ripping that test apart.</p>
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<li>go over EVERY single question if you get it right or wrong.</li>
<li>explain yourself every question (if you can’t, you’re going to be stuck with the score)</li>
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<p>I usually tend to be optimistic. Only looking at the good side of studying for this test. I don’t get motivated by what I won’t be able to do. </p>
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<p>Is 1500 just your CR and M or your composite?</p>
<p>No, to be frank.</p>
<p>It’s difficult but not impossible. Study the writing boiler plate. Know the basic math, and hope for some reading passages that interest you. Also work on time management. You should know the amount of questions that you can get wrong in each section and still score a 670. Don’t waste time on questions that you are likely to get wrong. GL</p>
<p>Nothing is impossible but it is very unlikely. There are however people that did not care about the test at all and just walk into the center to take it the first time with a very low score. Then they realize they need to prepare for the test and score much higher at the next attempt. To do that, you need to be both a very stupid person (not to prepare for a test the first time) and a very smart person (able to score high after preparation). In case that oxymoron came true, the score would be flagged for investigation.</p>
<p>500 points is a HUGE jump. If you are not self-motivated, I’d say it is very unlikely. I would suggest setting aside time each day for practice. Maybe in the morning do 10-15 min of math, around lunch 10-15 minutes of reading and in the evening 10-15 minutes of writing. Do that for a few weeks and then increase the time you are studying. You should be able to improve quite a bit, but even a few hundred points will help. You can do improve, but you need to find the will…if you can’t motivate yourself, maybe it isn’t really that important to you. That is fine as well. There are a lot of students that would be happy in the 1500 range. You need to decide.</p>
<p>I’m quite surprised by the negativity. Please realize that jumping from a 1500 to a 2000 is much easier than jumping from an 1900 to a 2400, simply due to the curve.</p>
<p>Also- Sosomenza advised you to know how many questions you are able to miss, but the SAT is unpredictable and this may make you stress more. You cannot, cannot hope for reading passages that interest you. You need to learn how to read actively whether or not a passage is interesting. If you get an interesting fiction passage, you need to still treat it as an SAT passage and watch out for main ideas, author’s view, character relationships, etc.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the negativity. I jumped from an 1880 to a 2260 (nearly 400 points at the upper range of the curve), and you can certainly do it if you commit.</p>
<p>Of course it’s possible, the test is out of 2400 points, 800 for math, 800 for critical reading and 800 for writing.</p>
<p>If you are prone to procrastination I suggest taking an SAT prep class. They give you assignments and make you do a lot of practice tests, which helps you stay on track. (If you think you’ll put in the work yourself, don’t take an SAT prep class because it’s a waste of money for you.)</p>
<p>Source: I worked at Kaplan.</p>