<p>I went from a 170 freshman PSAT to a 2300 SAT</p>
<p>1820 on SAT to 2020 on SAT</p>
<p>1710 to 2100</p>
<p>ive seen a 183 on psat go to a 229. But it doesn't matter that much, because the only kid who got into Harvard from our school got a 1920, while 17 of us with 2200+ who applied got rejected.</p>
<p>what i did was... um actually do something for the first time in my HS career. i was getting A's without even trying. So, i just studied for a bit. Probably did just 300 hours of SAT prep over the course of 11th grade. Take practice tests. writing easy to improve + learned vocab(500) to gain a firm ground is all you need. My reading skills sucked though so i wasnt able to break 2200.</p>
<p>up almost 400 points from my PSAT! Finally taking my tutor seriously and putting in some serious time every night studying on my own, my goal is 2200.</p>
<p>I didn't study at all for my first SAT, got a 2040 (710M, 650W, 680CR). Read Barron's and Kaplan 2400, memorized a bunch of words, and practiced my math skills. I scored a 2300 on a CB practice test yesterday (800M, 800W, 700CR)</p>
<p>Writing is the easiest to improve, then math. CR is a ***** to get up, but it's doable.</p>
<p>The main thing that caused me to make stupid mistakes on the math was the fact that I'd just run out of time on the essay. I kept thinking "ok, I'm going to cancel...". </p>
<p>Damned distractions.</p>
<p>I went from 167 sophomore psat to 2160 sat by march junior year</p>
<p>OBrien, how many SATs/PSATs did you take by the time you got that 2160? How much did you study? What books and such did you use?</p>
<p>one year later i took the junior psat, then i took the january and march sats. i took the pr class in the summer, but unfortunately i didnt take it seriously at all, and only went up from around 1120 to 1180, which is what my jr psat was in october. after that, i got serious. i used the pr book the cb blue book for the january test, studying primarily math. i started studying over thanksgiving break and i would do maybe 5 20 minute sections a week of math, and maybe 2-3 20 minute cr sections. once a week i met with a tutor from a local university. for the jan sat, i got 700 writing with an 8 essay, 710 cr, but only 600 math, despite around 680-700 on practice tests. then i got the barrons 2400 book and focused entirely on math, and really focused on simulating the real thing for math (timing everything exactly, no exceptions). that really increased my concentration, and i stopped making stupid mistakes. then came the march sat, the night before i brushed up on some essay tactics, and the next day i got writing up to 750 with an 11 essay, and got math up to 700. i totally neglected cr, and was so rusty that it went down to 670. so my combined is 2160, best sitting is 2120.</p>
<p>This thread inspires and gives me hope. I need to raise my score a few hundred points. No, I'm not even close to a 2400 either.</p>
<p>haha dank, it inspires me toooo!</p>
<p>& to some others -- who cares about typing? seriously. it's the internet, lol. not a big deal how someone types. if it's annoying, deal with it. not that hard.</p>
<p>I am just curious if anyone had any major jumps between their first and second time taking the SAT.
How many points higher was your score??</p>
<p>If you search for "score increase" in order of number of replies, you get some good results.
For example:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/414364-highest-score-increase-you-have-heard.html?highlight=score+increase%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/414364-highest-score-increase-you-have-heard.html?highlight=score+increase</a></p>
<p>I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but it gives you some other threads in case not too many people reply. (I'm sorry I can't but I've only taken it once so far.)</p>
<p>Mine went up close to 300 points (but I took it in middle-school and then as a senior).</p>
<p>My writing jumped 100 points straight, and went from becoming my lowest score at 650 to becoming my best score at 750. Which I thought was freaking horrible. I got my biggest increase and my highest score on the ONE section no one cares about! T-T</p>
<p>Apart from that, my SAT II on Math II went up from 640 to 690, a whopping 50 points. Of course, a 640 is a dreadful score to begin with, so I shouldn't be too happy about that one >.<</p>
<p>Not a jump, but I guess if it can go down it can go up.</p>
<p>Frosh PSAT 222
Soph PSAT 168 (very bad day)</p>
<p>As a Freshman:</p>
<p>First Practice: 1960</p>
<p>Second Practice: 2050</p>
<p>Third Practice: 2170</p>
<p>My son this school year:</p>
<p>December 2010</p>
<p>March 2120</p>
<p>110 points in 3 months, with a few hours of math prep.</p>