<p>I need to improve my SAT score, (1600)composite. I have tried tutoring, that did not work as well as I thought it would, to costly, any suggestions.</p>
<p>@lissyb, if you can’t bring it up with tutoring, try an online course or studying on your own. It’ll take some discipline, but if you buy the books or can find some free online sat prep it’s worth a shot.</p>
<p>@lissyb: How many practice tests have you taken?</p>
<p>My goal this summer is to raise my SAT score 400 points. Most people say it’s impossible to do so but I feel confident and will remain optimistic throughout my preparation.</p>
<p>2redpartyhats - are you serious?? -.- that seems strange though; a 40 point jump?!</p>
<p>Sonoratoo - oh lol. I have no idea how to respond to your question o.o</p>
<p>And nate42 - 400 points is most definitely possible lol. Have faith in yourself! </p>
<p>Me: 1980 -> 2360 (although apparently if I missed 1 less it would have been 2400 -___- But you know what, **** like this happens all the time with the SAT so whatever)</p>
<p>@lissyb, try this <a href=“MEGA”>MEGA;
<p>@nate42 - I’m aiming for a similar jump! Good luck and keep us updated on how you do (and what you do to prep).</p>
<p>@prowlings - How much did you prepare for that one (the 1980)?</p>
<p>Just wanted to throw something in for next time. I keep seeing people with 3 wrong = 760 on CR. This is a good example of when you should omit even when you can eliminate choices. If you had omitted one or more of those three you would have gotten an 800. </p>
<p>Also, no 2400s yet? What’s going on CC? lol</p>
<p>Reading: 580 (+30 since March)
Writing: 690 (+110 since March)
Math: 760 (same as March)</p>
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<p>Randwulf - there is no reason to omit if you have even the slightest chance of getting it right. Omission is only appropriate if you have absolutely no idea where to begin answering the question, which, for most SAT-takers who have prepped (I presume), basically is never the case. For me, most of the time, I can narrow it down to 2 choices, in which case I definitely would not omit.</p>
<p>Greenwave- um, I don’t really remember fully. But I think that was just the first real diagnostic I’d ever taken. I might have done some cursory prepping before lol. But not too much.</p>
<p>@prowlings That’s not quite right (although what I said in my above post is also wrong and was a little bit of a curve derp). There is one case where you should consider omitting even if you can narrow them down.</p>
<p>The hardest CR tests have a curve of -3 = 800. If you aren’t sure about 3 questions, you can omit them and get a -3 = 800. If you however guess and answer them all wrong, you will get a -4 = not 800</p>
<p>Of course, you don’t know the curve beforehand, so there’s a lot of guesswork there too. And you can’t be sure that you got all of the other questions right. But I was prepared for the situation and would have listened to my gut.</p>
<p>I am a high school freshman and recently took a practice SAT. I had no prep and got a CS of 1750. With a bunch of prep would I be able to raise my score to around 2200 by junior year?</p>
<p>Randwulf- if you’re not sure about 3, but how can you be sure you won’t get them correct? And what if you miss a question besides those 3, one that you thought you got right?</p>
<p>Then you don’t get an 800. But you can never guarantee an 800, or everyone would have 800s.</p>
<p>Which is why you shouldn’t omit if you have like a 50% chance of getting it.</p>
<p>If you have two possible answers for each of the three questions, assuming that you didn’t eliminate the answer (which on the hard questions happens fairly frequently), you would have have a one in eight chance of getting them all wrong. Once again assuming you didn’t eliminate the answer. If you can eliminate fewer answers your odds get worse. Fact is, this is a situation where guessing can possibly leave you worse off than omitting. If you are very confident about the rest of your answers and you are confident that it’s a difficult test, you should omit. If you are not confident about that, you should guess, even though it might bring you raw score down an extra point.</p>
<p>I got 2010 - 710CR, 660W, 640M. Dissapointed on math. Missed 6 on the easiest ones, 1 on probability, and omitted 3 because of time constraints - I hate making stupid, careless mistakes. :/</p>
<p>First time, no studying, as a sophomore:</p>
<p>CR: 710
M: 640 (not sure how this happened, math is my strongest subject)
WRIT: 720 (10 essay)
Composite: 2070 </p>
<p>I was kind of disappointed, but I can always study and take it again.</p>
<p>Math: 610
CR: 680
Writing: 750</p>
<p>So happy to be in the 600s for math!! Is this score okay?</p>
<p>It depends where you want to apply.</p>