<p>Math has always been my weakest subject. I get A's in math classes during school, but mainly because I'm not afraid to annoy the teacher with a million questions until I understand being taught. But the SAT math just destroys me.</p>
<p>I got a 760 in CR
A 780 in Writing
Annnd...a 570 in math. </p>
<p>That score actually makes me flinch. It's almost 200 below my CR score. 200 points! I'm retaking the SAT Oct. 5th, and I'm desperately hoping to get my score up to at least a 700. Can anyone give me some tips/free sites that can help me? I've already been practicing in the blue "Official Guide to the SAT" book, but on my best test my score managed to improve by a mere 70 points. </p>
<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>It depends on why you’re getting them wrong. If you’re getting them wrong because you don’t know how to do them, you might want to get Dr. Chung’s book as it contains a lot of difficult problems. Once you get used to Chung’s stuff you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>If you’re not able to spend money to get more books, flip to near the front of the Collegeboard book and it’ll explain all the concepts you need to know for the exam. The last couple tests of the blue book have more difficult math problems and if you need help doing those, perhaps bring those to your math teacher to help you solve them.</p>
<p>Assuming your issue is that you can’t solve the more difficult problems in time, do these: [Math</a> - Gina McNamara / Continental Math League (CML) Contest Problems](<a href=“http://www.claytonschools.net/Page/6461]Math”>Math - Gina McNamara / Continental Math League (CML) Contest Problems) Answers are there too.
They are sample problems from the Continental Math League and many of them are the kinds of problems that show up on the SAT. Some of them may be too difficult on the SAT or not appear but just try them all. In either case, this will help you get used to thinking about new and more difficult math problems so you can get the harder ones right on the real exam.
Don’t feel bad that those are elementary school problems. They’re elementary school problems for exceptional/talented students. Do it for the SAT score and just think about improving - if you can get better, that will be enough.</p>
<p>If your issue is that you’re making lots of careless mistakes, you just need to do a ton of problems from any book. Grab Kaplan, Barron’s, Princeton Review, anything, it doesn’t matter - fixing silly mistakes is about repetition, and lots of it. If you can purchase a book or two, do so and do one or two math sections a day depending on how much time you have until you take the SAT again. After a few months you’ll hopefully slowly see your score increase. I pulled it up from 660 to 760 in 3 months from doing one section a day, just to put it into perspective, and I make careless mistakes all the time.</p>
<p>If you can’t purchase books to do that, I’m not aware of many free websites, but perhaps you can at least go to Barnes and Noble and find a quiet place and do problems from a book without buying it (I mean to bring a pencil and some paper, sit around in the bookstore and do problems that way, not to steal); or perhaps check your local/school library? They might have some SAT books you can borrow to do the math problems from.</p>
<p>In my opinion, pulling up a math score is way easier than pulling up CR or W because all you have to do is put in the time to do a boatload of problems - the fix is relatively easy.</p>