SAT/ACT PREPERATION for the 1600/36

<p>For those of you who have achieved the perfects, or close to perfects (ie, those who know what they're talking about), what study habits, prep, books, CD's, ETC. did you use? Is simply reading test book for 15 min a day going to do it? Feedback is appreciated.</p>

<p>well I don't have a perfect score (mid 1300s) so you probably weren't looking for me to answer this post, but I think you should take a practice test and find out your weaknesses (if any =) and study those. No need to study everything if you don't need to. ie. for me I needed to brush up on my geometry but not prep at all for english. GL</p>

<p>That depends... are you near the 1600/36 mark yet?
If not then you need to get up there first.</p>

<p>People with near 1600/36 either know the material fluently (able to do any type of problem with some ease and) and recognize the tricks ETS has in problems.
Or they know how to attack a this kind of test.</p>

<p>You should find your weakness and strengthen it through prep books.
Use Princeton Review for Tips and Practice 10 Real's for tests. (practice means studying the test and seeing why answers are the way they are and finding shortcuts for math problems)
<a href="http://www.studyhall.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.studyhall.com&lt;/a> for answer explanations to 10 Reals.</p>

<p>If you are particularly strong in something (ie. Math - 720+, but you just can't seem to get that 800)
hone your skill, find the traps you are falling into. READ QUESTIONS CAREFULLY
If the problem is near the end of the section, it is usually hard or has a trick and finding the answer too quickly means you made a mistake or forgot something.</p>

<p>I have perfect math right now. It's all about the tricks. Usually near the beginning sections, the math is straightforward, but near the end, there are tricks. Same goes for quantitative comparisons (tricks start around question 9 or so in my opinion).</p>

<p>For the 15-minute math sections, I think pure math skill is needed. There aren't so many "tricks" here really, but these questions are often timeconsuming and take some critical thinking (like the train question).</p>

<p>also, become one with the ti-89...the solve function can sometimes come in handy to save a few seconds</p>