<p>I'm surprised no one had made this thread before I did.</p>
<p>Anyway, how has your SAT prep come along? This will be my last SAT and because I suck I procrastinated so I began studying 3 weeks prior... Still hoping for 2100+ though</p>
<p>It’s been ok. This will be my third time taking the SAT. For some reason, whenever I take practice tests I usually get 2300+… But I keep getting 2200’s on the actual one. :c stupid pressure</p>
<p>bankin on 1500+ …(out of 1600 lol)</p>
<p>all i can say is that I better not get another 8 on my essay [-X </p>
<p>So for tests #4-10 in the BB, how do you guys score yourselves? Because there are ranges for each section rather than exact scores…</p>
<p>The essay screwed me over in march. I got an 8 surprisingly despite spending the first 10 minutes shaking and panicking (it was so bad lol I brought 10 pencils and only had two left by the end of the essay section since they kept flying out of my hand) </p>
<p>I was expecting a bad cr score since I was sick and just could not focus on those long passages but writing trumped it. Oh well. Hoping June will allow me to avoid those unfortunate errors</p>
<p>@crystal19 ive decided to just go by the median score</p>
<p>I’m taking the SAT again in June. I took it in December and got:</p>
<p>650 CR
620 M
600 W (65 MC I think. Maybe 69)
6 Essay. </p>
<p>Hoping for 700’s and an 8 essay minimum,</p>
<p>It’s been alright. This will be my first time taking the test - transferred from India not too long ago, trying to get 2100+. By the way, what have any of you done for essay evidence examples? </p>
<p>@lifeisfun13 I’ve designed a template I can work with in 25 minutes instead of trying to force the 5 paragraph framework set up by so many prep materials. I’ve been refreshing my memory on my literature, scientific, current events and history examples by writing them down in a notebook so I can review them and stuff. I’m going to start arranging them under abstract SAT themes today</p>
<p>The essay ruined my sat in march since I thought me being great writer in class= Me doing great on the sat (I was wrong) so I’m not gonna let that happen again haha</p>
<p>@jellybae What historical/scientific examples have you been studying? This whole essay-example writing is new to me, never really had anything like it in India. </p>
<p>Don’t worry, you’ll do great on the essay! 
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<p>@lifeisfun13 well I’m in us history and I took the ap test a few weeks ago so I have that knowledge to fall back on. My physics teacher gives us a lot of current events happening in the science world daily and I’m really into astronomy so I know a lot of stuff about it</p>
<p>Thank you! This is my last chance so I’m hoping it goes well</p>
<p>Oh, and btw, just make up your examples. The graders don’t care.</p>
<p>@jellybae That’s nice. I’m trying to memorize a bunch of facts about a few great people. </p>
<p>@RishabC297 I’ve heard of that but how exactly do you make up convincing ones? </p>
<p>Btw which states are both of you from? (If you don’t mind answering that is) </p>
<p>I live in Texas. </p>
<p>Rishab is right. Don’t force a history/literature example if you don’t know it very well. If you have one strong factual example and one you know little about, you should go with the strong example and a personal experience or something basic and not do the both of them. I realized that the essay writers are not only looking for a coherent argument but also one that uses varied syntax, diction and (maybe) literary devices. So you should focus more on your writing and less on your examples</p>
<p>I’m getting super frustrated with math. I easily get the hard ones but I keep making silly mistakes on the easy/medium ones. I missed easy/medium ones in march too. Sigh </p>
<p>What is everyone doing to prepare? I just took a full-length practice test yesterday from the blue book. Did okay in verbal but I got like -15 in math! Does anyone have any advice for pulling my math score up in a week? It’s usually a few silly mistakes (didn’t fully reduce a fractional answer, lol) and then getting to the last half of the section and staring at the page internally screaming “this is not math!”</p>
<p>Buy a Ti-36x pro</p>
<p>Taking 2 timed practice tests this weekend and 2-3 untimed ones. I’m also gonna write a whole bunch of practice essays and really hit my writing and math. I’ve regarded the reading section as a lost cause. It all depends on whether I focus on the passage and can force myself to infer only from the passage</p>
<p>@loves2ride What kinds of silly mistakes? If it helps, try to underline what is asked in the question - ex. in a question, you may have to find x while doing the problem, but the question might ask what is 1/2 of x or something like that. So underline “1/2 of x”. It’s helped me a lot!
Check what topics you don’t get in the hard questions and review those particularly. Try using Khan Academy for the hard questions - <a href=“SAT strategy archive: Math | Test prep | Khan Academy”>https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat/sat-math-practice</a> (levels 4 & 5)
Hope that helps! :)</p>