<p>Here's a thread about the test on June 7th. </p>
<p>Go ahead and post about your story/situation, what you're doing to prepare for the test, and more. </p>
<p>I havent started studying!! I took the March SAT and got an 1810. (misbubbled on the reading D: ) Hoping to score a 2000 this june! </p>
<p>I have been preparing for quite a time (not very long, I started giving it a serious go only from round March end 
), but I am not at all confident about what I am going to do on the 7th. My Math is going well ( I am able to score 800 nearly every single time), Writing is going good (I am getting 700+ frequently), but my CR prep is really really worrying me. My scores on the CR keep fluctuating, it’s like 670-740, and that too irregular trend. No acclivity, .</p>
<p>Just in case it helps, @arvindvishak & @Green1997, I gave the following advice for someone who’s studying over the summer. You might be able to take advantage of some of it before the test! “Point a & b” won’t apply to you two, but the rest might. </p>
<p>Best of luck! </p>
<p>a) I applaud you for making one. It’s also admirable that you’re going to spend at least a good 8 weeks of the summer prepping for this.</p>
<p>b) Your etymology and Latin classes will be great for your vocabulary, but at the same time, I wouldn’t avoid the studying of words that have been compiled like Direct Hits. Use something like Quizlet to learn/review them or if you have a smart phone, you can review them on the phone when you have down time. I’ve seen students go through the list of 321 Direct Hits words on Quizlet very easily in 2-4 days and you could do that several times over the summer. You might even collect all the words you don’t know from your 2 Test Prep books and the other tests I’m going to recommend you take below from the Sentence Completion questions.</p>
<p>c) Read the “Best of SAT Prep Forum” post/FAQ here: <a href=“Everyone, read this before posting: Best of SAT Prep Forum and FAQs - SAT Preparation - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/763933-everyone-read-this-before-posting-best-of-sat-prep-forum-and-faqs.html</a> See if the other guides or advice may help refine or add to what you need to do during the summer.</p>
<p>d) To add to the list of “improvement stories,” I just saw this post which you might want to read: <a href=“How I raised my SAT score by 790 points-My story - SAT Preparation - College Confidential Forums”>How I raised my SAT score by 790 points-My story - SAT Preparation - College Confidential Forums;
<p>e) The Blue Book - the official guide and the online course by the college board along with the practice tests (<a href=“https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/assessment/pdf/0833A611-0A43-10C2-0148-CC8C0087FB06-F.pdf”>https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/assessment/pdf/0833A611-0A43-10C2-0148-CC8C0087FB06-F.pdf</a>, <a href=“https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/assessment/pdf/F4D31AB0-66B4-CE32-00F7-F5405701F413-F.pdf”>https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/assessment/pdf/F4D31AB0-66B4-CE32-00F7-F5405701F413-F.pdf</a>, <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools) are probably better to practice with since these are REAL questions from the College Board. Not sure what your 2 Test Prep books are, but these would be better.</p>
<p>f) Add an element of reviewing and understanding why you got the questions wrong. I think this is CRITICAL to your success especially if you’re taking practice tests.</p>
<p>g) Also, I would put some time in for regularly writing essays in the limited time you get “by hand” and work on your penmanship and ability to write for length, if either one of these issues plague you. I’m compiling a plethora of “12 pt Essays.” If you want, I can send these, but I might write an essay answering the same prompts they were answering and then compare yours to the “perfect essays.”</p>
<p>If you haven’t gathered a good number of historical or literary figures who can apply to the main categories of prompts (Individuality, Success, Technology & Progress, Heroes, etc.), I would start doing that along with collecting a good number of quotes (possibly). Use these in your essays for supporting your main claim.</p>
<p><a href=“https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8pbCO47HLsUlY6ERyTENNGZJMsYJeBiylxevNi2Le0/edit?pli=1”>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8pbCO47HLsUlY6ERyTENNGZJMsYJeBiylxevNi2Le0/edit?pli=1</a></p>
<p>Thanks @smoth141 </p>
<p>Guys, I just have taken it this morning (in Vietnam). Quite easy. The reading passages are not to hard. The math is easy. Only on the essay that I found quite difficult. I do not know whether or not it is the same over the world, but here is the prompt anyway: “Is staying in the same community over time better than changing our places during lifetime.” - I have paraphrased the question, but that is the main idea!</p>
<p>what did you guys get for the vocab question about flying. some options were, schism, flux, digression. </p>
<p>I had the nicest lady she let me use a ti83 (barely any battery though) when I told her I forgot mine. Guess that’s one of the perks of showing up a half an hour early</p>
<p>And I can confirm it was scary easy. I hope the curve isn’t too harsh. Haha I can’t believe they asked us how many even numbers there were</p>
<p>@MubblesMcMuffin </p>
<p>It’s schism because that’s a separation. The others made no sense.</p>
<p>QUESTIONS:</p>
<p>1.) What was the experimental section? Was it the reading one about Alexander Hamilton? I thought that was much harder than the others and it asked weird questions liked which lines would support the antecedent question.</p>
<p>2.) Did any of you think their was a test error by College Board for the last question in section 10 (writing).</p>
<p>I thought that “had” should have been removed from the answer choices. Do you think there was a correct answer?</p>
<p>Did everybody has the same questions? And I found it not too bad, except I’m worried I left too many blank. (6 total in CR, 4 total in the writing), and there was one section of the CR I found harder than the rest, and I’m worried that an easier section will be the exp. section rather than the one I found harder.</p>
<p>@SimplyOverdone It was actually how many weren’t even…the irony lol</p>
<p>I left the very last question of section 10 blank, was wondering the same </p>
<p>How did you guys do the problem asking for the mean of a set of numbers when it said that “the only mode of this set is 5”</p>
<p>@simplyoverdone There were 2 5’s and 2 3’s given, and because 5 should have been the only mode, x=5</p>
<p>@SimplyOverdone: For that one, there it was like 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 17, x, right? Because the only mode is 5, that means that x has to be 5, to make it the most common. Then you just find the mean normally. At least, that is what I did. </p>
<p>@edsteen thats right</p>
<p>Wow I can’t believe I didn’t look at all the numbers. What did you guys get for the number of arrows it takes to get from point a to point b</p>
<p>did anyone have an experimental reading section about an Irish playwright that also appeared on the March SAT? it was weird I had the exact same reading passage and vocab words from the march SAT. like i recognized the passage. </p>