<p>..if I actually knew how to solve every problem.</p>
<p>I naturally work very quickly, so I can slow my pace to avoid making any careless mistakes. The only questions I miss are the ones I literally don't know how to solve.</p>
<p>Is there a website or a prep book that will show me how to do every type of problem?</p>
<p>OMG .Not another ''best prep books discussion'' thread</p>
<p>^All of your posts are useless and unhelpful.</p>
<p>The thing with the math section is that very few mistakes can lead to a relatively bad score, because the curve is usually harsh. So, a 680 really isn't as bad as it may seem right now. I'm naturally skilled at math, but when I took my first SAT practice test, I scored around a 600. I bought the Barron's SAT prep book and it helped me with the things I didn't know how to do (for example, I was really bad at using absolute values in inequalities, for some reason). </p>
<p>I didn't get through the whole thing because I discovered that it was essentially useless. None of the math on the SAT is difficult, and most of my errors were made due to inattention. You just have to practice and you'll eventually get the hang of solving SAT problems, which are either easy or much easier than they first appear. I suggest you buy a prep book to help you with the math problems you really don't understand, and from there on, just use the blue book.</p>
<p>I got a 680 on my previous SAT also, but with hard work I am almost certain I pulled off the elusive 800.</p>
<p>What you should do is practice! (I know it is the expected answer, but it will help you.)
If there is a question you don't know, ask on CC, we will try our best to answer and explain it for you.</p>
<p>But, I can't help you if I don't know a specific area you are having troubles with.</p>
<p>So basically you guys are saying to practice with prep books?</p>
<p>..There's not really a specific kind of math I struggle with, it's that every test (well I've only taken the SAT twice and the PSAT once) there's about 3 or 4 questions that stump me. </p>
<p>So just practice the difficult questions and look up the answers repeatedly hours upon hours? Is that the only fix?</p>
<p>Can you give me an example? I might be able to show you how to "think" through it.</p>
<p>Yeah, give me an example. Then perhaps I can show how I would do it...</p>
<p>Well I just decided to make this thread out of the blue, lol.</p>
<p>I'll go through my prep book (that I've barely used) and find one within the next few hours.</p>
<p><em>ignore this post</em></p>
<p>Go learn calculus. It will force you to hone your algebra skills (the majority of "hard" SAT questions are algebra related) and develope your problem solving abilities. You already know the basic math concepts (since SAT math is 8th grade level); so you may have reached a plateau unless you fundamentally improve your mathematical ability (mathematical insight is not entirely genetic, you can acquire enhanced mathematical reason). Learn how to do hard calculus problems, and you will realize SAT math to be the joke that it is.</p>
<p>lmao i have to agree with jjjj</p>
<p>after the hardest pre-calc teacher ever, calc seems like a joke
and now sat math seems like a joke
then i tried to use calc on an sat question and went...owait this is an sat question</p>
<p>sorry doesn't work for me. Aced the SAT Math I in 8th grade after Algebra 2 but bombed in the PSAT in 10th grade while taking AP Calc BC...</p>
<p>I have the same kind of problem, since I always have the careless mistakes.
But I find it's ok if I don't score an 800 on math section, because an 800 on SATII Math IIc would simply solve the problem.</p>
<p>Maybe you could also use such a strategy.</p>
<p>holy crap meadow... you took calc bc in 10th grade?</p>