Practice test vs PR tests

<p>This is wierd, whenever i take a practice test at home i average 1600-1800 but when i go take the PR test i get like a 1400-1500, do you guys think that maybe it was that i was distracted when i took the PR test or something like that?
thanks</p>

<p>Where are you going to take the PR test? Are you doing PR tests at home too?</p>

<p>no i am taking in a classroom. i think i realize what i am doing wrong. whenever im takin the test at the PR place, i get distracted and i cant concentrate but when i take it at home i am 100% concentrated.</p>

<p>me too.</p>

<p>for the Official Book Practice Test, my average is about one wrong for math. And i often have 4 or 5 extra minutes to sit there and doing nothing. Weirdly, i took a Princeton Test in their offered test location and did not even finish all the math questions. </p>

<p>And my average is about 200 lower for the Princeton Test.</p>

<p>Basically i would say that Princeton just make the hell of question as difficult as they can, so that you got a lot wrong which will give decent
chance for us to sign up their SAT classes as opposed to make them easy in which everyone would do well</p>

<p>oh thank god....</p>

<p>Ok, i have been studying like mad....unfortunetly i started late (Feb) for the April 1st test....but quality of quanity right?(let's hope- i study everday for 30min-2 hrs a day, not counting practice tests)</p>

<p>I have been taking PR tests and not scoring as high as i would liek, in fact i have gone down a little in writing. I bought the blue book, but i am scared to take one of it's tests b/c if i do bad i know i am doomed, and if i do good i am worried i will feel liek i dont hav to study as much.....any suggustions???</p>

<p>are the PR tests actully harder than the real sat?</p>

<p>wow 2011!!....thats exactly the thought process i went through...i took a few PR tests nd i did ok but not great...i got this blue book nd its sitting here nd im scared to take it cuz if i do bad on that tehn it really cements the fact that im in trouble.....i guess since someone else is doin the same thing as me i can give it a shot nd see wat happens...haha</p>

<p>lol..yeah i am a 'scardy-cat' let know what u find out...and if i rack up the courage i will let u know!</p>

<p>The blue book is very comparable to the actual SAT. This makes sense, considering nearly all the blue book questions are taken from old SAT exams and molded a bit into the new SAT format. So, the questions in the blue book should be similar, but the blue book scoring scale presents too big of a range to accurately predict the exact score. Also, there are several variables that may affect your score on exam day, so use the blue book as only a rough predictor of your score and don't let it psych you out one way or another. Just use it to improve the most that you can and do your best.</p>