My parents want me to take an SAT every day

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Ok well this summer my parents decided to send me to an SAT prep program for 3 weeks. When I got out it raised my score by about 200 points, and then my they wanted me to take an SAT every day. So here I am, taking an SAT every day. I raised my score about another 100-150 points, bringing it to the 2100's. Except... they're still not satisfied. </p>

<p>I told them that I should concentrate on other, more important things like ECs, but they won't listen to me. In fact, my mom said that if I don't get a 2200 on my SAT, then I have NO chance at RPI, CMU, NYU, MIT, Duke, etc etc... and the worst part is she said that if I get a 1800 on my SAT then my entire life will be ruined. </p>

<p>I don't like taking SAT every day though, it barely improves my score now. I usually get mid 700's for math and writing and then in the 600's range for reading. I'm very bad at the critical reading section yet I don't know how to improve on that. I read a lot of articles every day on CC but it doesn't improve my score. </p>

<p>But what are some good alternatives to taking an SAT every day? I just want to spend like 1 hour studying but when I told my parents that they said that I was trying to suicide and waste my life if I did that... they want me to spend like 5 hours every day (DURING THE SUMMER!) studying. :(</p>

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<p>umm what you are doing is a TOTAL waste of time. This is coming from a 2200+ scorer who did something similar to what you’re doing.
For the CR, how is your vocab? I recommend studying vocab. And try to enjoy this too, I did.
For the passages, I actually suck. Take Princeton Review’s course for this (they teach you a technique where you don’t even read the passage) I ended up with a 710 CR.</p>

<p>Math, slowwww down if you’re going too fast. Best advice I can offer here. (750)</p>

<p>Essay, I blow at lol so don’t take my advice. But the grammar usually you can trust your ear, but double check still.
Good luck!</p>

<p>Alternatives to taking the SAT practice test everyday: maybe take one every weekend or every other weekend. BUT after you take it, SCRUTINIZE (haha sat vocab right there) your wrong and right answers.</p>

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<p>Yeah, tell your parents that there are better ways to prepare for the SAT that don’t require so much time. Just taking the test over and over again can only improve your score to an extent. What I do is I just read for fun (books, newspapers, magazines…etc) and I underline every single word I don’t know and I keep a list of vocab words and I remember those. And for the math, I guess for that part, you should just get one of those sat math books and just do some problems.</p>

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<p>5 hours a day will lead to burnout and score decreases</p>

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<p>RIP ntktop :[</p>

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<p>^LOL
OP, I’m sorry:(</p>

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<p>Your parents are psycho. Just don’t do it. What are they going to do to you? Beat you? Not feed you? I doubt it. Your parents are livving through you and you need to tell them that it needs to stop.</p>

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<p>Huge waste of time. You could do so much more with that time. I can’t imagine any college would <em>want</em> you spend that time doing SATs than something else.</p>

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<p>as pointless as it is, live with it. millions of kids do this every summer. i’m dead serious.</p>

<p>pretend you’re studying. then play ds. text your friend. if anything, DOODLE for five hours.</p>

<p>come on, you’re a teenager. rebel a little.</p>

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<p>Well, if you want to really get to the point where you’re doing the “5 hours of SAT practice” a day, you have to establish a habit and work up to this. My strategy was that I started with one of each section a day, while carefully checking and reviewing my correct and incorrect answers. Then, I started adding one more section (whichever one you’re weakest in) every 3 days, until I had enough for a full practice test per day. Upon this, I divided my work into doing one practice test every 2 days, where I would do a practice test on the first day, and then spend the next day checking and reviewing all my answers. Doing more than one full practice test and reviewing answers a day might be overkill.</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s right to take an SAT every day - with AP/IB courses, ECs, and, etc, you’ll actually be worse off.</p>

<p>Perhaps take a bunch of AP classes and say you’re studying for those? It’ll be worth more anyway.</p>

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<p>An SAT once a week is a better idea, a month or two before you take it.</p>

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<p>I made an 800 perfect score on math…take ur time on the math…dont make simple stupid mistakes</p>

<p>i actually made a dumb mistake and got one wrong…but still got an 800 lol</p>

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<p>And btw ur lucky okay. My parents are happy with my 2050, but im not. at least ur parents try to improve ur grades rather than telling you that ur stupid lol…i’ve had that happen to me once…or twice =)</p>

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<p>I completely agree! The most important thing is to figure out what exactly you did wrong on the practice tests, so you know what kinds of mistakes you make. If you do this just once a week or so, it’s better than haphazardly doing one every day and resigning yourself to the fact that you’ll get the same kinds of scores.</p>

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<p>work on it… maybe not five hours a day, but practice helps.</p>

<p>my best advice for CR would be to actually read high-quality pieces of writing- new york times, newsweek, etc. that’s really helped me a lot- you pick up words in the natural context.</p>