<p>A friend of mine recently got a 2340 on his SATs, he said that all he did the last few weeks before the SATs was take practice tests (took close to 30 in the last 3 weeks or so). </p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, is this a workable option? How effective is it? Has anyone done something like this and still performed poorly (personal experience)?</p>
<p>And how good are the practice SATs by the other companies (non-CB)? I'm afraid I'll get worse by taking them heh (by changing the way I view the questions or whatever xiggi said :P)...</p>
<p>It doesn't matter how many tests you take...it matters if you understand why you got the questions wrong and how to prevent them next time around. So I say don't do 30, but rather a few, but analyze each test you take and see why you got questions wrong.</p>
<p>I find it hard to analyze the questions after finding out I missed them. </p>
<p>Generally all of my incorrect answers are narrowed down to 2 choices, but some how I always have the bad luck of guessing the wrong one. In addition, it seems very easy to justify an answer with the help of hindsight :(.</p>
<p>Any tips on that?</p>
<p>I'm just not too big on the analysis, how much would it help if I took a couple of tests everyday and skimmed some of it for the analysis? Would it just be a massive waste of time, or would I see some improvement? Because with my current method, I'm seeing close to nil (Take a test every few days, analyze for a day, repeat).</p>
<p>I can justify/analyze what I missed, but I'm not sure if it's helping :(. Since it's so easy to just brush it off as being "obvious" with hindsight.</p>
<p>sr6622:
Yeah, 30 is aloooootttt, but I'm sure everyone would be willing to do the work for a 2340 ;).</p>
<p>russdelabuss:
There are only 8 practice ones in the blue book :(. I'm considering using PR (11 + 7 in other books), Kaplan (12 + some others), and Barrons (6). I'm going to go all out :-p.</p>
<p>Order the SAT online course on Collegeboard.com, check the detail explanations for every answer, then you will realize the pattern of CR questions, and how to pick "ETS's answer" most of the time.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd do that, but there aren't enough ETS tests :(, and I'm afraid the other tests are going to hurt me, rather than help me (Making me pick the "un-ETS" answer :P).</p>
<p>A 340-point jump in just a few weeks is HUGE! wow! In all seriousness, I think I should do 30 practice tests before I re-take the ACT in December (I want a 35), but the ACT has fewer "real" tests available in test prepbook format. The Blue Book has 8? The Official ACT Prep Book has 3.</p>
<p>I think it would probably be best to take a practice test maybe every 3 weeks or so for a few months leading up to when you take it...I never took a single practice test or did a single practice problem and got 760M/730CR/720W, but I kind of wish, in hindsight, I would have taken some time over the summer to do little weekly reviews and study a bit. I think vocabulary is highly overrated, but I think with the actual critical reading of passages and the writing MC, practice makes perfect...I also think my CR score rose after taking the AP English language exam, since the passages and questions on that seem so much harder than those on the SAT.</p>
<p>Taking 30 practice tests in a few weeks leading up to the test would be insane...thats like 4+ hours of testing EVERY day.</p>
<p>your friend is right on, just take practice sections (FROM THE BLUE CB BOOK) whenver you have little bits of free time and try to take a few full length practice tests. go over the ones you got wrong. do it in your backyard. eat while you do it or listen to music.</p>