SAT Biggest Improvement Stories

<p>169 PSAT Soph Year....2140 SAT Senior Year...and also I got 38 in Writing Soph Year...these are my scores now: 600 CR, 750 M, 790 WR!!! I used sparknotes for writing...helped a lot.</p>

<p>I have a friend that improved from 175 on his sophomore year PSAT to a current 2320 SAT. He took prep classes and studied a lot on his own.</p>

<p>i went up 120 pts in a sat subject test haha :D that was awesome</p>

<p>Sophomore SAT - 2040 (680 CR, 710 M, 650 W)
Junior PSAT - 228 (80 CR, 80 M, 68 W)
Junior SAT - 2340 (760 CR, 780 M, 800 W)
Senior SAT - 2330 (740 CR, 790 M, 800 W)</p>

<p>from a 2190 to a 2330 (math from 640 to 800), and you know why? because I didn't take a single practice test before taking it the first time. Once you take three or four practice tests you can answer everything - it's all the same, after a while ;-)</p>

<p>Nov 08- 2020 CR 660, MATH 690, WR 680
Jan 09 - 2200 CR 680, MATH 760, WR 760
The first time I wrote SAT with no preparation. For Jan, I prepared only for 15 days; took loads and loads of practise tests, and corrected my errors as best as I could. I was disappointed with my CR score though.</p>

<p>I'm doing pretty good.</p>

<p>PSAT 10th Grade: 177 (Epicly bombed math for some reason. Got a 48 in it.)
PSAT 11th Grade: 196 (My math score jumped 20 points this time :p)
SAT 11th Grade: 2130</p>

<p>I'm hoping I can get up over 2250!</p>

<p>1890 to a 2280 :)</p>

<p>ELITE PREP CLASSES </3</p>

<p>lol, i bet no one can beat this improvement story...</p>

<p>ACT fresh year: 17</p>

<p>PLAN test score: composite 21</p>

<p>PSAT soph year: 161 (CR 57, M 51, W 53)</p>

<p>PSAT junior year: 210 (CR 72, M 65, W 73)</p>

<p>SAT junior year: 2250 (CR 760, M 690, W 800)</p>

<p>Sohpmore PSAT : 160
Junior SAT : 2150 - I got a 610 on CR so now Im studying CR to get that to 700+ so Ill have a 2200+.</p>

<p>PSAT 10- 200 (65, 72, 63) CR, M, W
PSAT 11 -231 (77, 77, 77)
SAT 11 Jan. - 2350 (800, 760, 790, 12 essay)</p>

<p>I "omitted" a math question on my sat. ah those 30 points...
I took 3 english electives my sophomore year plus a year-long honors course. That possibly helped my score a lot.</p>

<p>Junior year: 670 math, 670 cr, 640 writing
senior year: 780 math, 760 cr, 730 writing</p>

<p>I bought Direct Hits vocab book and flipped through it in the waiting room, during long car rides, waiting for my sister to be done with whatever, etc etc. This helped a lot.</p>

<p>Then I took 6 practice tests from the Blue Book the week before the actual SAT date. (one test each day)</p>

<p>about 170 Psat(45w/55cr/65m)(very low result, much less than expected, i was surprised id idn't get an 80 on math and at least 10 more on writing/cr)
and probably a 1500+ cr/m in may(finally scored 750 on cr constantly above 700, but writing is still a 600).</p>

<p>2140 PSAT --> 2210 PSAT --> 2250 PSAT --> 2160 SAT --> 2330 SAT</p>

<p>No prep/study. The main difference was not feeling absolutely sick to my stomach like I was during the first SAT.</p>

<p>Well, hopefully I can join you guys soon! I got 57 CR, 59 W, 63 M, on my PSAT, and I aiming for a 670-700 CR, 750-800 M, and 690-720 Writing on SAT. My sister improved from 75 CR, 57 M, 72 W to 800 CR, 610 M, and 770 W with no studying.</p>

<p>2020 (June) --> 2240 (senior year)</p>

<p>I think a summer break really helped as well as practicing CR more efficiently. I don't know. For me, being nervous was the biggest problem.</p>

<p>believe it or not: sophmore psat: 1270…yea yikes…and
dont know what the junior one is yet but on my latest practice test i got a 1620 thats a 350 pt increase!!</p>

<p>I’m liking this thread. It gives me hope that I can improve my 1900.</p>

<p>Thus far, 2050 (first practice) to 2340. Hoping for 2050 to 2400. 350 points above the 2000 level is pretty significant.</p>

<p>sophomore psat- 191 - 71 M/53 CR/67 W (2 wrong in Math, like 15 wrong in CR, and 4 wrong in writing)
junior psat-80 M/80 CR/80 W (-1 on critical reading)
March 2009 SAT- 740 CR/760 M/800 W (12 essay 77/80 MC scaled score)
June 2009 SAT- 760 CR/ 800 M/ 800 W (12 essay 80/80 MC scaled score)</p>

<p>summer before junior year, i did a decent amount of practice. the best thing you can do for yourself is to take full practice tests from the collegeboard blue book for accuracy and precision. after taking the first, evaluate your weaknesses and go through every section and figure out why you got each one wrong. they dont provide explanations, but this is a good thing. if you carefully look at the solution and try to reason out why their particular answer is more “right” then yours, you will understand the testmakers to larger extent. generally, their answers are more logical than ours, but the point is to think like them. eventually you will come across similar situations, and though they will not be the same, the underlying method in finding the answers for similar questions is ALWAYS the same. more than taking a billion practice tests, it is forcing each and every mistake into your head and learning from it so you can think differently so as to adapt to collegeboard’s ways.</p>

<p>general rules: read paragraph at a time for long passages, because questions often are based on particular lines or words. you dont wanna have a bunch of crap in your head when you try to answer a question.
sentence completion. the beginning ones are simple, the end ones are difficult.
math. underline the question being asked. make sure you have that in the back of your head the whole time so that all your hard work and calculations dont end up being for nothing.
learn the writing rules. writing is clearly the most conquerable section. performance is based on how well you know the rules. these writing rules can be found in any book anywhere. memorize them. apply them. see what you get wrong after that. chances are that the things that you get wrong will be because you do not understand a rule well enough.</p>

<p>at first, dont time yourself. try to get everything right with unlimited time. then start timing yourself. this way you develop accuracy before getting stressed out with time.</p>

<p>most importantly, finish sections as quickly as you can so you have time to check stuff over. dont get bogged down by one question. skip it if you dont get it immediately because the chances are that you just blanked for a second, but reading and trying to understand again with the thought that it is extremely difficult may just make you sweaty and stressed on test day. with the section essentially done, you will feel less pressured to answer the remaining questions properly.</p>

<p>hope this helped!</p>