***January 2016 SAT (US Only) Thread***

Same @idealni1 , I’m scoring around the 670-700 range for math…700 being my best on my most recent practice test. Do you guys have any tips on how to raise math to something around the 750 range? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

@Cece0499 What are you getting wrong? The hard questions or the easier ones? Is it more that you don’t know how to do the problem or you are making careless mistakes?

@Cece0499 I heard that the Dr.Chungs SAT Math is good for the harder problems, but I need more feedback on this book

Hey, I have been using Dr. Chung’s book for Math and I love it! The tips are very useful and quick. The practice tests are pretty hard, but it helped me become more confident about the harder questions.

@smileydinosaur usually the last one or two in every section wrong sometimes I’ll get one medium difficulty question wrong.

Does anyone know what a -1 for math was on the December SAT? Would a -1 for math ever be a 800?

@glassflowers -1 math in December was 780

@glassflowers -1 was 800 in November but that math section was super hard apparently.

@fisisk Okay, thanks!
@loquatial Oh…that makes sense, thanks!

@Cece0499 go through all your practice tests and classify the problems you got wrong. Like is a function? or usually probability? and then go study those specific topics. I heard theres a website called brilliant.org thats good for sat math practice. Maybe go check that out

Hmm… For the December test, I talked about police brutality in America and Black Lives Matter as well as the refugee crisis for my modern examples, and used a quote I remembered (or more accurately, paraphrased) about the Holocaust (creative, I know) and a relevant study done by the APA. I try to analyze at the end of each example like any essay I would write in school. My conclusions are brief (I usually run out of room to write more than three or so sentences), but I try to end with a punchy line or a personal example and connect back to my thesis. Hope this helps a bit, and good luck!

Answer mine? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19133349#Comment_19133349

I got an 11 and I think I wrote about Genghis Khan and the youth generation of Natzi Germany.

And I missed 0 on the writing section. My score was a 2320.

Currently hitting 160 range, my weakest subject is Math, what do you guys suggest to improve math quickly to hit high 600’s?

Hey guys! It would mean a lot if you could look over this and post any prep materials or anything – or just link to some threads that are already like this?

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/1848781-advice-and-materials-to-increase-my-sat-scores-by-jan-23rd.html#latest

Thank you guys! Hoping the January SAT goes well for all of us!!! :slight_smile:

1600 range*

Do you mean 1600 out of 2400, @Pisaller ?

Yes @disentanglement , the only thing that is bringing me down is Math by a lot, and CR a tad. How would you improve Math to reach high 600’s with 18 days left until Jan 23?

Oh gosh, @Pisaller … when you put it that way… how about let’s not think about ‘18 days left’? That would be great XD

I got a 640 on the December SAT with nothing but looking over some old Algebra and Geometry notes. That may help more than you think! Since then I have been using the Blue Book to practice problems and if I notice I’m getting the same-ish ones wrong repeatedly, then I will review that topic and read the question more carefully using PWN the SAT. I’ve already got my practice tests up to around 700 each time this way! :slight_smile: I borrowed Dr. Chung’s SAT Math book from the library yesterday after hearing everyone on here raving about it and hope to raise my score to a 750 by the 23rd (big dreams, but let’s hope!) Hope that helped xo

Math is all about knowing how to approach the problems. Most of the questions of the math sections can be approached by a certain method you’d have to get used to or see often. I do admit that the last few questions can be random but learning one linear method for those problems will not do you any good. Like writing, I think you can master the randomness of the math sections by going through lots of practice tests and seeing the different problems since you are unable to accurately predict them. A powerful calculator such as the Ti-Nspire or Ti-89 also helps :stuck_out_tongue: