Personally, I think the SAT is something that NEEDS to be studied for

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<p>Dolewhip,</p>

<p>I am currently at where you were (680 ish) and want to get to where you ended up (750+ would be great). How did you do it? I’m simply naturally bad at reading. I pulled myself from like a 500 freshmen year and am currently a junior.</p>

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<p>I’d appreciate some tips too. My PSAT Sophomore reading was a 54, and the November SAT I got a 590 (I thought I did a lot better too =) and if I wanna get up to a 2200 I’ll need to raise my CR by 60 points minimum (though realistically, probably closer to 100)</p>

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<p>I increased math from 660 to 760 by buying the 1st edition blue book and doing every single problem by section, untimed. Then, every question I got wrong or was somewhat unsure of even if I got it right, I went through the explanation on Khan Academy website where they go through the explanation in a video. I was worried before I went into the test because I didn’t seem to be doing consistently better, but bam! 100 point increase. I highly recommend it. It gets you so adjusted to the question types.</p>

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<p>I disagree. Practice doesn’t make perfect. It only gets you close. You gotta get into the mood during the SAT test to get 2400.</p>

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<p>That’s a shame about your CR, randwulf–I had a similar experience when mine went down from 800 to 740. Sometimes you choke, sometimes you overthink it, and sometimes the CR section is just plain harder than you expected.
I raised my CR by mostly practice and repetition using the College Board’s practice SATs. I obviously took the math sections as well, but I supplemented by math study with a combination of princeton review’s Cracking the SAT and Barron’s Math Workbook for the New SAT. The latter was surprisingly helpful for me, since I needed to basically re-learn the fundamental principles tested in the math section rather than simply refine my skills with helpful tricks. Anyway, that’s my plug for those three books. If you’ve got sixty bucks sitting arounds somewhere I suggest you make the investment and give yourself about three months of diligent study.</p>

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<p>My analysis of SATs is,difficulties at the combination of basical english test and math section.
It makes people confusing and hard to swtich english mode to math mode.</p>