<p>As an SAT tutor, let me tell you a secret.
<em>Nobody</em> walks into the SAT without practicing and gets an 800. It doesn’t matter what your friends claimed to have done, I can assure you that they practiced a ton. Disregard whatever your friends tell you and don’t follow their example.</p>
<p>There are tricks to solve some of the harder problems, yes, but you don’t need a tutor to figure them out. You just need experience doing the problems. A high 700 is usually 53/54 questions right, and nobody can do that consistently without practice.</p>
<p>You may know how to do every problem, but somebody that gets an 800 in Math is able to do every math section in half of the time limit and then do every problem again to check their work. </p>
<p>I was a strong math student in AP Calc and AP Stat when I took the SAT and couldn’t get higher than a 680. A 680 is like a 48/54 on the math section. </p>
<p>It took me 11 full practice tests before I was able to consistently get 800s on SAT Math. </p>
<p>If you aren’t getting the results you want, then you need to practice more. If you want an 800 on SAT Math, you need to take like 20 timed practice tests.</p>