<p>Long story short, ever since I found this site I stared in awe at how godly people are able to score 2000+ with little to no prep and this was before I even had an account; thinking how I could easily ace the SAT I took the May 5, 2012 sat last year when I was a junior and scored a measly 1260 composite score and ever since then I vowed to score up to 2000 on the sat to be competitive with my graduation class of 2013.</p>
<p>I prep long and hard last summer (self studied) am now a senior and, took the Nov 3, 2012 SAT to see how much I would have improved on the second sitting needless, to say I gotten an average of 1500 composite score on the sat. And when I saw that score I was completely broken down how dismal all my efforts had been in vain.</p>
<p>The current breakdown of my score stand as it is:</p>
<p>May 5, 2012</p>
<p>cr:430
m:390 <--- lol
wr:440</p>
<p>essay:7</p>
<p>November 3, 2012</p>
<p>cr:470
math:500
wr:530</p>
<p>essay:10</p>
<p>Resources currently:</p>
<p>Specialized books
I got these after the Nov 3 Sat
Grubers Math Sat
Grubers Critical reading</p>
<h2>Grubers writing </h2>
<p>Mcgraw Sat 2013 (little bit done)
Princeotn review 2012 (pretty much finished)
Princeton review 11 practice test (halfway done)
sparknotes (have read seven deadly screw-ups)
collegeboard question of the day app (iphone) (I do this everyday)
Bluebook 2009 (almost done with 2 sections left)
"Karen Dillard's" SAT prep course ( I didn't find it very helpful)</p>
<p>I also pretty much read all the helpful strategies this cite has to offer.
I will be sitting my final SAT on Dec 1, 2012 and will push forward one last time for a 2000 on the SAT hopefully but, I will be equally satisfy if it is a 1800.</p>
<p>So I'm asking does anyone think I will be able to get a 2000 on the SAT on the Dec 1, 2012 SAT? I know this will be a difficult feat but the satisfaction will be rewarding. And how should I go about utilizing these prep books I have. Usually I do one section at a time then review my answers afterwards but then when I do another section I get a different problem wrong for math. And How does one strategically nail the Critical reading section. This has always been my biggest problem I reading the passages look at the question then the answer choices and pick the answer and get it wrong. Is there a magic trick to get the passage based questions right?</p>
<p>What exactly was going on with the 430 and 390? </p>
<p>It seems like either:
-you were out of it that day/ time trouble
you blew off high school education
your high school sucks and you were starting from a very low base of knowledge</p>
<p>If you can give us some idea where you started from we could give better recommendations.</p>
<p>Keep in mind here that your goal is not “beat” the SAT and get into a great school you then flunk out of. You are trying to get into a school that will be on the right pace for where you are academically. If you didnt get taught much in HS for 4 years, prepping one test isnt going to fix that.</p>
<p>my high school isnt very good and I started off with a low base knowledge.
Also my high school teacher reguraly hands out A’s and most people take blow off classes to up there gpa. Anyways what im doing is going all in on the sat and put forth all my efforts on this one exam (sat) to compensate for my low gpa (3.38) and this is basically all I have without a good score I have no chance for college</p>
<p>I also kind of know what most of the concepts are going to be tested on the sat like (alg 1, geometry, numbers and operation, functions etc…)</p>
<p>For the writing section I know the rules that are going to be tested such as </p>
<p>-subject verb agreement
pronun antecedent
tense
parralellism
-diction
-noun agreement
pronoun ambiguity
-pronoun case
-inapropriate verbs
and much more </p>
<p>for the critical reading section I have absouloutely no clue. I read the New York times top ten everyday and look at articles on cnn if that helps.</p>
<p>I support you, bro. What’s done is done. You can’t change your high school or teachers anymore. Instead, you should focus on what you can actually control at this moment. That’s your SAT score. You need discipline to tackle this exam. Your best bet is to improve Math and Writing. Critical Reading scores do not usually improve in a few weeks. But still believe in your luck whenever you are not sure between choices. Only change your answers if you can convince yourself another one is better. </p>
<p>All I did to improve from 1700 to 2040 is 5 practice tests. Not just doing them but reviewing your mistakes and really thinking why you make this mistake. I have no advice on essay though. In all my 3 exams, i scored total score of 6 out of 12. </p>
<p>And Math and Writing questions are always similar in concept. Same kinds of questions appear frequently.</p>
<p>Don’t worry I did worse than you and I’ve already been accepted into 3 schools, but the SAT may not be your preference, Take the ACT also so you can do better</p>
<p>Thank you for your support NobleFlaire and your advice.</p>
<p>@acemade I have put forth tremdous energy preparing for the Sat
and I have made the final decision sticking with Sat but if I have time I will come back and do the ACT too. Thank you acemade.</p>
<p>“Also my high school teacher reguraly hands out A’s and most people take blow off classes to up there gpa.”</p>
<p>Ok thats why standardized test exist. To root out those shenanigans. </p>
<p>A 3.4 isnt terrible. There is a thread on CC about schools for that range, and I doubt that a 2000 is necessary for them. How did you arrive at the 2000 number? Do you have a school/schools picked out and you know that is necessary? Read through that thread a consider those school and match your score to them. </p>
<p>I think you should be able to get math to a 600, not sure about CR since it sounds like you arent much of a reader to start with so you maybe have issues with time after you go over the passage. As you probably already figured out the SAT is all about the time limits so if you dont already make sure that you are taking the practice tests with a timer in front of you and you know how to ration your time out. NEVER read the instructions for the section- that not changing. Practice skimming the passages quickly, circling things that seem key as you go through the first pass. </p>
<p>You also need a score report to work from. What they call the “Student Answer Service”- this will tell you which type of questions you are getting wrong. Then you know where to direct your studies. I think you wont get the Nov report until the 27 which is too late to help much. If you dont have it already order the May report. </p>
<p>I would suggest that you adopt a strategy of maximizing your minimum. So plan to skip the hardest questions, they will just waste your time and you wont get them right anyway. Skip the last 4 on the maths. Then you are only doing 16 questions in 25 minutes which will give you a big edge in getting the material you know right. Just bubble in some thing random on the last ones but dont bother trying to eliminate anything. By the time you figure out where AB bisecting angle CDE is on the diagram you will blow 60 seconds, which is a big deal in this environment. </p>
<p>Most importantly dont feel hopeless. You already went up 270 points. So you know this can be done. And a lot of the subjects you are probably close to being able to lock in the subject and get all of those questions right with a little additional effort. And the goal here isn’t to reach an arbitrary number, but to get you admitted to the right fit school for you. And you probably aren’t far off that score.</p>