there are going to be a bunch of posts tomorrow huh… haha
honestly, how do you guys score 2000+… I’m hoping for at least a 1600 or 1700… I’m going to retake the exam in November. I need a 2000.
@ty4short practice… that’s honestly the only way for the SAT
any fellow east coasters still awake? 
@ypmagic so how was it?
@ty4short: I know you are probably soooo annoyed of hearing this (lol), but really the best way to score 2000+ is to just take numerous tests and go over your mistakes. Justify why an answer is wrong or why an answer is right. I also used to score around where you are scoring now (1600-1700) but I buckled down on my errors and minimized them to the point where the SAT was a “whole new test”, meaning it wasn’t the scary monster I made it out to be but rather a game of prolonged focus.
@ambitionsquared: Haha my parents found me taking the practice test and they got kind of mad…so now I’m just doing exactly what you are doing, learning/reviewing vocab and focus on the essay. Personally, I am using:
Literature - “The Bad Beginning”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “The Great Gatsby”, and “The Morals of the Prince”.
History - The Battle of Penghu, and then I am going to BS a story about a general doing whatever I want him to do 
(creds to satman)
People - Warren Buffet, Thomas Edison, MLK, and J.K. Rowling
Btw, its OK guys I am also really nervous for this SAT…we are all on this together! And with that mentioned, you would be surprised how much your score can drop due to lack of sleep, so go to bed around 9:30 IMO.
@JuicyMango Could you elaborate on how to make up a story about a general and how you would apply it? For the essay, I would ideally have a solid historical and literary example, but I generally revert to a fabricated personal anecdote for my second body paragraph.
This is how Satman1111 (where I learned this method) answered this particular prompt by completely fabricating a legit historical event.
Question: Is it a disadvantage to pay attention to details?
(1 of the paragraphs in which Satman1111 used the “battle of penghu” example)
“The first case where paying attention to details proves to be an advantage is in the Chinese battle of Penghu, in the middle of the 19th century. At the time, the ruler of the Qing dynsasty was the omnipotent King, Kangxi. At the time, the King got into a horrible dispute with the leader of Taiwan, in which no discussion or treaty could solve. So, the King declared war, sending admiral Shi Lang with 100,000 men and 600 warships to attack Taiwan. AT first, the attack was deflected, so the admiral split up the trops. One of the generals of the split up troops, Jiang Tzu, played a large role in the decisive victory that later occurred, all by paying attention to details. As he was in Taiwan, he noticed weird occurrences - one man in his troops did not quite add up, and after looking at the details, he found him to be a traitor, and so, captured him, found out where the enemy was, attacked, and won the battle of Penghu.” -Satman1111
Btw, anyone know how to answer a question like:
Question: Is it wrong to try to teach values and character in the classroom? (this is from the October 2014 test)
I don’t have any memorized examples that can answer this, and even the battle of penghu example wouldn’t work. In this case, should one of my examples be personal and the other one would be kind of fabricated like using the movie “Matilda” and since I don’t remember the teachers names, just make them up? (although I do remember “trenchbull” or something like that lol)
@JuicyMango lol when you said you would go to sleep at 9:30 and you are still up at like 11:00
^Probably going to happen but if you mean that its around 11:00 right now, I’m actually in the Pacific Time Zone so it’s only 8:04 right now :P.
good luck guys!
Good luck everybody, I hope you all reach your expected scores!
So damn nervous. You guys think the test will likely recycle previous tests’ questions?
probably not. the SAT isn’t that stupid haha @yolomaster98
If tomorrow has another really open ended prompt like last year’s prompt about community service… sigh collegeboard why do you do this to us?
@JuicyMango I would probably use Harry Potter (Dumbledore stressed the power of love, which ultimately proved to be Voldemort’s weakness) and some made-up personal anecdote. If I wanted to argue against it, I would reference the Nazi youth (taught about aryan superiority in school) and also probably a (spurious) anecdote.
Guys I just started practicing my essay with 10 hours to go. I’ve done 20 tests from the blue book/crack sat, but not the essay in a single one (though I have done essays on my 5-6 proctored tests). I’m a good writer, so I’m hoping by some miracle I finish on time when it counts.
@ypmagic where did you take it? How come you’re done now?
Guys I filled up both pages
Use literature examples (les miserables and great expectations) and one historical one
Use sat vocabulary
5 paragraphs
Does that guarantee and ten or above?