<p>Also, I wanna say that I hope you guys get your desired scores and don’t have to come back worrying about the SAT. I’ll be on the October thread. Hopefully, you don’t see me there and will be happy with your results. If not, then I’ll see you guys on this site in October :P</p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 That’s exactly what I’m doing… saving writing(best for last) to see if it will help me get my 1800</p>
<p>@mizejonathan17 a 2200 alone is a fantastic score as it is… you’re in the top 1% of all SAT takers. Are you planning to apply to Ivies?</p>
<p>@sat2014 The first practice test I ever took was around an 1800 (early sophomore year), so I have improved considerably since then. When I first started reviewing and prepping, I focused too much on the test, and not enough on the actual conceptual basis of the test, if that makes any sense. Too many people who do not yet have a solid level of SAT subject matter comprehension attempt to band-aid that lack of knowledge, by compulsively taking practice tests. My advice is to, at first, focus more on prep materials such as “Dr. Chung’s SAT Math” and “Barron’s SAT Math”, than the “Blue Book” and Princeton Review. Once you feel that you have ascertained at least 98% of the subject matter, then you can begin knocking out practice tests like a machine. Good luck!
@Jarjarbinks23 I’ll be doing the exact same thing :))
And thanks. I plan to apply to Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and perhaps Cornell.</p>
<p>I’d like a 2200+…but to be realistic, i would be over the moon with a 2000-2100
I’m still planning to retake in Oct because I don’t think I did that good 
These are my rough predictions but I will expect lower to not get my hopes up.
CR-high 600 to lower 700
Math-600-650
Writing-700-750 </p>
<p>I hope the curve for critical reading is like what jarjarbinks23 put. </p>
<p>I’m going to look at my writing score before any other score. If I got a 700+ writing, I’ll know I did well on the test. If I get in the 600s I’ll just not look at my scores and sulk in the corner lol</p>
<p>@mizejonathan17 thanks, I see CR is your best section. I think math will be the most easiest to improve once I master 99% of the concepts. Same goes for writing. For CR, I have an above average vocab but my reading skills aren’t A standard. I think if I could get them to an A-, I will be able to get a 620+ in CR. Hope you get into the schools you want</p>
<p>I’ve done so many old SAT CR sections…and this CR was harder than a lot of them so I really hope the curve is like -4 for 800 Here’s a tip…don’t think that the CR section was easy…because a lot of the questions have ambiguous, arguable answers and you may end up disappointed </p>
<p>True^ In my opinion, the passages on this SAT were more comprehensible than those that appeared on the last test I took, yet the answers choices were far more equivocal </p>
<p>Good luck to all you guys later today, hope you get the scores you want, if not we all still have a few more chances anyways. I don’t think I will get my score the first time around, but hopefully the second time I do much better.</p>
<p>By the way, if you guys still remember the ethopian guy passage in NYC, is the correct answer AWE or CONFUSED 
I had awe then changed it to confused.</p>
<p>@sat2014 fairly certain it was awe.</p>
<p>@presque thats what kills me… I had AWE changed it because it sounded like he was stunned when it fact he was amazed… hate myself, I do that too many times</p>
<p>What about the lawyer who defended those celebrities? was the answer was because since he worked with them(his profession) that would be his likely response?</p>
<p>I believe so @sat2014 </p>
<p>“Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our giant African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in an individual ant but in the collective any mind. The trail of red taillights stretching to the horizon as day broke around us made me think of that term. Order and purpose must reside somewhere other than within each vehicle. That morning I heard the hum, the respiration, of the super-organism. It’s a sound I believe that only the new immigrant hears, but not for long. By the time I learned to say “Six-inch number seven on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce,” the sound, too, was gone. It became part of what the mind would label silence. You were subsumed into the superorganism.”</p>
<p>@sat2014 questions like that (awe or confusion) is just based on what you feel … it’s a waste of time to look for direct proof for them because it’s never directly implied, and there’s such a thin boundary between the two choices.</p>
<p>On questions that ask you about emotions (like what the character feels), go by what your gut tells you without having had looking at the answers first. At least on practice tests, going by my initial instinct helped me get most “emotion” questions right</p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 agreed, I will do that for the October test. first instinct for emotion questions. now that I think about it, the reading passages were pretty challenging. What does everyone else think?</p>
<p>Was it “by product of being a newcomer” or “New customs”? People on here say by product, but people on the Google doc said “New customs”…</p>