Long story short, I need a 1600. Please share some tips on how i can score a perfect score on the sat. I did manage to get a 1400, so how much hours and how many days a week should i study. Please share tips…
I scored a 2400 (old SAT), but I’m sure the same strategy can work here.
Before any practice I was scoring around 2150-2190 (1490-1510 using new SAT ranges). First step is to of course identify weaknesses and strengths. For me I could ace math (perfect score) with relative ease. Reading I was relatively comfortable with. Writing, I absolutely sucked at (in my terms). I was getting like low 600’s. So I took the summer before SAT to learn grammar rules. By the time summer ended I could perfect score math, and often writing, and could get above 700 on reading. I was aiming for a 2350+ (1580) and wanted to take the SAT only once (cuz there was no way in hell I wanted to sit for 4 hours more). My score was good 2250+ but not consistent and not near my goal. This is where the practice came in. I bought loads of practice tests and took one every day. Literally every day. Gradually after around 30 tests my score went up. Out of the 30, I remember only 2 were above 2350. But, the SAT was soon, so I was like screw it and decided to take the test. By some luck I got a 2400.
So in summary.
Make sure you know the basics of each section.
Then practice like hell until you’re satisfied. Then practice some more.
Thanks!!! So how many hours did you practice each day??
Just one full test per day (around 4 Hours) and maybe an hour after that looking at mistakes
There are no reasonable conditions by which you would “need to get a perfect score” on the SAT. Get real.
I got a 1590 on the new June SAT. (I missed 1 reading question.) I started a little more than a month before my test date and did around a practice test a week and practice problems most days. I would recommend you start earlier than that because my initial scores were in the 1500s and I was only focused on improving my math. The thing that helped me most was figuring out what I did wrong on practice tests and then drilling those skills on Khan Academy. Don’t fall into the trap of “practicing” the skills you’re already good at. Find your weaknesses and drill them. Also, be consistent. Doing some work every day is much better than trying to cram.
Also, I think the official Blue Book was helpful. Read through their summaries of the content and do the practice questions too, not just the full practice tests. It’s kind of hard with so few official practice tests having been released. I never used any books beside the College Board’s, but you may want to research some other ones so that you’d have access to more practice tests.
Finally, make sure you stay calm when you hit hard questions. Practicing tests on paper (I never did the online version) with the actual timing helps with this because it helps you get accustomed to the stress of the real test. Getting flustered killed a lot of my early practice test scores, even when I knew the content well. Stop thinking you need a perfect score because you don’t. Thinking about that during the test is a surefire way to stress yourself out and potentially lose points you could have gotten if you’d been calmer.
I had done a bit of prep for the old SAT so I probably had an advantage there, but that’s the strategy I used. Daman’s advice is really good too, but I know I personally would have burned out doing so many practice tests. I think it comes down to finding the strategy that works for you.
Good luck and I hope some part of this works for you!
You’ve posted about needing a full scholarship before. Now you’re trying to will yourself into a “perfect” score. That’s a recipe for disaster. You can’t will yourself into a perfect score so you need to get that unrealistic goal out of your head. Might you do great? Sure. But as you state it, you’re speaking foolishness.
Maybe praying?
Thank you velmah, we need more people like you on cc!!
Getting a perfect 800 score will be a challenge and will require a tremendous effort. BUT, it’s totally doable. You don’t have to be a genius to get a perfect 800; you just have to be a hard and disciplined worker. We really recommend you start prep early and leave about 4 months to get to this score. The key to this is going to be time management, targeting your weaknesses with practice tests, eliminating careless mistakes, and doing as many timed SAT math practice tests as possible.
This is what I tell my students, in terms of study plan:
Number of Correct Questions: 57 – 58
Study Plan
• 2 - 3 hours a day to review concepts for 2 - 4 months
• 30 minutes - 1 hour a day to do practice questions
• At least 10 timed math practice tests
Main focus of studying:
• Heart of Algebra
• Passport to Advanced Math
• Problem Solving and Data Analysis
• Additional Topics
• All 26 commonly tested concepts from our analysis
You don’t need to do a whole practice test every single day. You should be doing once every week - using it to target your weaknesses and make your studying very efficient.