<p>Does anyone think it's a good idea for a person to practice for the SAT late at night, as well as any time of the day, just to make oneself more prepared? I find that I'm always tired if I have to get up early and am not able to concentrate as well as I am able to in the afternoon.</p>
<p>But if I practiced at night in addition to other times during the day, would it help prepare me for when I take the SAT and am a little sleepy?</p>
<p>AzureStar, I would take it bright and early. Get a lot of sleep. Friday night I was cramming up the ying-yang and simply passed out on my computer desk while reading silverturtle’s guide (last ditch effort to get something productive done towards me W score). I was up until 12 or so before I passed out and had periodic alarms wake me up from 4 to 6:30. And then drove for an hour and a half to take the SAT on a stomach filled with one nutri-grain bar that morning. Needless to say, I looked like crap and was really tired looking. But I was calm. </p>
<p>What you have to do is treat it as important. This is your life for the next few hours. I also had the backing motivation of having to do good to get into my college of choice, which worked for me, but you could find other reasons. And simply take it. It’s as real as it gets. Bright and early, take it, done. Taking it in as realistic settings as possible should help. I get up early every day and trust me, as hard as I try I can’t stay up in Honors History at 8 in the morning. My left cheek is glued to the wall for an hour and a half every Monday and Wednesday morning. </p>
<p>Although, practice SAT’s can be taken whenever you want. It’s good to simulate real testing conditions as much as possible, I think, in order to accurately measure your performance and improve it from that level.</p>
<p>Thanks, CalDud. I usually do get a decent amount of sleep, but I generally find that I’m tired pretty much every day, no matter how much sleep I get. I’m not really sure why, but maybe I should ask a doctor about that lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks again for the tip. I usually try to simulate test conditions as best I can by sitting in a quiet room and taking the sections within the respective time limits or something similar.</p>
<p>Haha, I just do it whenever I have time. When you have a lot of classes, you learn to not be picky about when you study for the SAT. The most important thing is to just do ALOT of sat practicing. Stop worrying about the time. If you have the time, do it.</p>
<p>Ok thanks genesis. I am really busy with school and I know what you mean, so nights are the only times I’m usually available! It’s awful really, and I wish I had less work.</p>
<p>Just do it whenever you have a spare 4 hours available. But on the night before the test, don’t study and go to bed very early to try to get 7 hours or more of sleep, and get up early enough to fully “wake up”</p>
<p>4 hours available would be a gift lol. I only did 35 minutes (2 writing sections) worth of practice and that was all my free time! On the flipside, I did manage to do very well on them with about a 750!</p>