<p>Given that this weekend in the March SAT day. Do people have advice on what to do (or not do) the morning of the test in order to be most productive during the test? Also, any advice about the prior evening?</p>
<p>Try to relax the night before. Do something fun, but not wild. Review your fundamentals and maybe two 2-3 practice questions of each type, then put it all away and do something that you enjoy. Pack some healthy snacks for the breaks...bottled water, apple, granola bar, nuts, a PB&J sandwich.</p>
<p>The morning of, eat a good breakfast with a balance of protein and light carbs (don't eat French toast for breakfast, but don't eat 6 eggs either). Don't have caffeine if you normally don't. Same with energy drinks. And no studying the morning of!</p>
<p>Ooh, I never thought of taking a PB&J sandwich!
Don't do any thing you don't normally do in the mornings. I don't review anything the day before, but if you do, just review cancepts or vocab words you've had problems with.</p>
<p>Eat fish the night before...brain food.</p>
<p>Definitely don't go overboard with the prep or anything. Maybe review a few last minute trouble spots or formulas but don't take a practice test or anything. Relax, get a good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast. You're going to be taking a 4 and a half hour test, you need stamina.</p>
<p>Keep the same time to get up for the two previous days and do not
stay up late on Thursday/Friday. Get your normal quota of sleep
(8/9/10 veries individually?) Do not vary your breakfast schedule. Relax on
Friday evening and do some small warm ups on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>Pack the food you will be having (Granola bar/..whatever) during the
exam, when you will drink water (not sugar based drinks) and maybe
some potassium rich food(bannanas/dates/yogurt/etc.). have your own
timepiece and make sure it does not beep. Change batteries on your calculator. Mkae sure you relax on friday evening!</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>One suggested to us had been "to warm up you mind" that morning with some light reading or something similar. Anyone else here that and what specifically would "warm up the mind".</p>
<p>The 10 minute writing section, few problems from a math section
(like 1-3)....?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>*concepts
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<p>I don't get it.</p>
<p>*concepts?</p>
<p>Am I missing something?</p>
<p>Eat eggs for breakfast, and bring 2 bananas, 1 for each snack break during the test. This will make a huge difference.</p>
<p>try reading a newspaper article or two, or looking over some easy math and/or writing questions (no CR as that'll warp your brain and you don't want that).</p>
<p>oh btw: make sure you have your calculator the NIGHT BEFORE, i found out the morning of i left my calculator at school and i had to go rush and find a crappy one lying around my house :(</p>
<p>Before you eat two bananas in a short period of time on test day, try it before test day. Bananas have a substance in them that can cause migraines if you have too much, and some people are more sensitive than others (I found this out when I somehow ate four bananas in one day, which I do NOT recommend!).</p>
<p>The other thing about bananas is that because they're dense, they take more energy to digest, so in the short term, they can sap some of your mental and physical energy. That's why I eat apples instead, with a complex carb or fat "chaser" afterward...when my blood sugar drops or I'm just feeling tired, an apple will totally perk me up. But then I get hungry, so a granola bar and/or a handful of nuts afterward is a big help. </p>
<p>Apples are a fabulous brain and body boost immediately, bananas more in the long-term. I'd eat a banana with breakfast, and an apple on one of your breaks.</p>
<p>Thanks all.</p>
<p>I do have a question about why is there concern about reviewing on friday evening? For regular HS tests, you would study the night before. I have heard this repeatedly but I am confused.</p>
<p>Food day of/night before. i do think we will aim for the seafood direction. As for the morning of, we discovered the first time she took a practice SAT that eggs for breakfast (MB with nerves) make her ill. What we have tried since, to get in the protein, have been the thin breakfast steaks. Usually w/ a carb (toast ) on the side and then just water. OJ also doesn't work. We then have prepared a baggie of almonds and m&m's. Easy to grab and eat when needed. Is any of that a mistake? Should a banana be added at breakfast, should an apple added at snack. Is the sugar of the m&m's a mistake even if there are almonds? She will have a water bottle but we don't want bathroom break issues.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Every SAT prep book I've read said to take the night off from studying, or just light review. I suppose maybe because studying for it would stress you out, rather than relaxing you? </p>
<p>Don't take swigs of water after each question, and I think you'll be fine. I think M&Ms are fine, unless she normally gets really hyped up on sugar. </p>
<p>Smoda61- In my first post I misspelt "concepts" as "cancepts". For fear of looking like an idiot, I corrected my spelling. :)</p>
<p>Oh, and get everything ready the night before. Remember the admission ticket! I think everybody's overthinking the whole food thing. Whatever works, I guess.</p>
<p>smoda61, I think M&Ms with almonds is a good idea. I remember seeing something on the news not that long ago that when you're faced with vending machine snacks, the best choice was a Snickers or M&Ms with peanuts, because the nuts added protein and the sugar would give a bit of a boost, but not as much as candy without nuts.</p>
<p>I think adding an apple for a snack would be fine. Try that and the banana at breakfast before test day, to see how it works. Don't sweat it too much, though. As long as she's not overloading on sugar or carbs, and not eating things that are known problems, she'll be ok.</p>
<p>Stay up all night, cram as much as you can, forget the calculator, eat steak and leftover pizza for breakfast with a few shots of booze, bring a single pencil, (eraser optional) and listen to hardcore rap.</p>
<p>Don't take practice tests the night before the test...</p>
<p>I consistently scored really well on my practice tests, then I took one the day before the test and scored almost 200 points lower than I had on the other ones. I panicked, and the next day, I performed poorly (my October score dropped 50 points from my May score).</p>
<p>don't go and do a practice test..that just makes you incredibly nervous, tired, and it will make you very vulnerable to the bad thoughts...take it from me, you don't want to go in with almost no confidence... and also, do something relaxing, and nice, because you'll be in for a grueling morning... </p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>The morning of, make sure you read SOMETHING in general before you take the test. Personally, I read part of this interesting book of lists which not only calmed me down (it's actually kind of funny), but helped kick-start my thinking that day.</p>