SAT: If you want a good score, you need to tackle your mistakes hard

Honestly, the title says it all.

Unlike tests that you take at school, tests that test your comprehension of material, the SAT is designed to test you on applying the skills that you’ve learned while measuring your aptitude and skill. As such, the SAT is notorious for easily tripping people up, leading down the wrong way, or just simply being deceptive. A simple review of what is on the test and what you got wrong won’t be enough if you want a great score.

You need to tackle every single question on the test, specifically your mistakes, aggressively and thoroughly. You need to get it in your head that you got this answer wrong and that you will do everything in your power to make sure that you don’t get the same type of question wrong. You need to review not only your mistakes and the problems that you got right but confused you/guessed on and got right. Simply going over your mistakes and saying “oh, I see, I won’t do that again” is a surefire way to not achieve the grade you want on the test. I cannot stress this enough: you have to approach your mistakes aggressively, review and thoroughly understand the concept behind it, identify the type of question, and formulate a plan to never repeat the mistake. This means doing a lot of practice tests/drills/sets, and it will be time-consuming, but that is the price that you pay for a good score.