<p>How realistic is going from 1700 to 2200 in 5 months??? WITH prep-class and the bluebook along with other books...??</p>
<p>doable…</p>
<p>by “doable” do u mean that its very possible or that its possible with A LOT of work?</p>
<p>def doable. If you work your butt off everyday… at least 2-3 hours</p>
<p>dude. you have SUMMER. Definately take advantage of the time away from monotonous school work, and do your SAT. everyday. Don’t go hardcore, but with 5 months, you can take your time, and meticulously analyze everything.</p>
<p>Wow.. Really? i’d have to work that much??</p>
<p>yea, but im taking summer school so,…</p>
<p>Depends on you. The good ■■■■■ always takes hard work. If it wasn’t good, then anyone could do it. And of course, there are those freaking people that are just naturally good… And those people, wouldn’t be on this website to talk a/b the SAT b/c they’d have the freedom to do whatever the hell they want. Just my opinion. Good stuff takes hard work.</p>
<p>^ agreed</p>
<p>Powerbomb, I have similar ambitions. I need to go from a 1900 (just took a PSAT some time ago and didn’t even know what it was, so I did really crap) to a 2200. Well, I don’t “need” to, but I want to… and I will!!! (muhaha)</p>
<p>See my profile for the EBook I used.</p>
<p>All it took was a weekend of studying it!</p>
<p>I think maybe 10 hours a week would be sufficient… But yeah, I can’t believe you asked if it will take a lot of work… of course it will…<br>
It obviously is not going to be easy to raise your score by 500 points..</p>
<p>500 points means an average increase of about 170 points per section, which is definitely doable in 5 months. i think you need to work 5 strong hours a week to accomplish this.</p>
<p>-2400er</p>
<p>My PSAT was close to 1900 (1880)…that was with a no studying/didn’t think much of it attitude. Since then, I’ve been studying for 4 months, pretty darn hardcore studying, and now with a motivated, well-prepared attitude I’m scoring between 2000-2200 on the BB practice tests. It takes studying AND motivation (not to mention confidence) to do well.</p>
<p>I got a 198 on my PSAT (which is equivalent to around a 1930, NOT a 1980–PSAT math is much easier) and am now scoring in the 2200-2300 range on BB tests. (I started studying in November) Last test I took (mid April) was a 2190 (got a 670 on CR even though I only missed TWO nonfiction questions because a) I got this ridiculously boring, convoluted fiction passage and b) I got über-unlucky with vocab. Three straight tests with getting only 1-2 vocab questions wrong and this recent one I get FIVE wrong), but if you “superscore” my sections from other tests I have a 2290.</p>
<p>So that’s 260 (or 360, depending on how you look at it) points in five months of lax studying–I’d estimate 1-1.5 hour per week of studying plus a 3 hour practice test every four weeks, not including time taken for regular reading, which is imperative for any significant improvement. Tricks can only get you so far, and to achieve a score such as 2200, you need to develop long term study habits, i.e. fluency in reading. </p>
<p>So, if you want 500 points in five months, I’d say doable, but hard. Don’t conclude that it’s easy to score high just because the majority of people on these forums have scores in the 99th percentile. It’s not easy. You must study long hours, you must read regularly, and you must not give up. People talk about “plateauing out,” about these innate, finite potentials that only appear to be high for those who are naturally good SAT takers. There is no such thing. Those who “plateau out” are generally those who have exhausted their tricks and who are not willing to change their study habits, and those who appear to be natural SAT takers are those who have read all of their lives, done math all their lives, written all their lives, studied all their lives, and who now have only to combine their studiousness with SAT strategies. </p>
<p>What you’re embarking on is the path of the intellectual. Studying for the SAT will not only be arduous, but very academic. The college that accepts 2200 you will also be very academically demanding. </p>
<p>Forgo your prospective summer of burning out (or whatever it is you do during the summer) and focus on the SAT. This is not to say that you have to spend all day studying, but if studying and reading happen to take up the majority of your day every now and then–then good! If going to an Ivy-tier college is not important to you, then don’t bother getting a 2200. But if you want to go somewhere like Brown, like Amherst, like Duke, like whatever, then put in the effort and really give this your all.</p>