@Zinhead, like @IN4655 said, she is planning to work on EBRW, but she feels more confident in Math so she wants to see if she can get that up first. I think she has a good amount of room for improvement on both sections.
@IN4655, I was thinking the same thing about her math score possibly sticking even after she switches gears. I’m glad the strategy worked for you. She’s really having trouble getting into prep mode, so I think it’s psychological more than anything else. She needs to get going and it’s going to be hard for me to get her going if she has to deal with the harder material first.
@penngirlpending, the surprising thing is that she got the exact same score on EBRW as she did on Math on the PSAT, so it might not look too out of whack if she boosts her Math score up first. She made a lot of stupid mistakes on the Math section. I’m hoping that with practice, she can bring the number of those mistakes down. Her mistakes on the Writing section are clearly the result of not knowing certain rules of sentence structure. It seems like these can be easily and quickly corrected, so I’ll definitely try to get her to spend some time on this, even before her first attempt at the SAT.
That’s awesome that you were able to get your CR/W score above a 700. Did you do a lot of full practice tests, or individual questions?
@suzyQ7, I think they Superscore by total EBRW, not by the broken down scores. Her lowest score was on the Writing section, but she made the same exact type of error on several questions, so I think she has a good chance of improving her score there. Her mistakes on the Reading section seemed more scattered, and I think they’re related to reading speed. I think it will be harder to improve there, but I’ll definitely encourage her to try.
@“Erin’s Dad”, do you know if some of the schools that Superscore also fall into this category of schools that want to see all scores, so they can identify big swings? Do you know how to figure out which schools want to see all scores - do the CDS’s have that?