<p>If you have improved in the SAT like say around 1700 to 1900 or anything of that sort. Post how you improved. What did you do that made you improve? Share your improvement stories. </p>
<p>I know there is another thread for this but that's too intimidating.</p>
<p>Please mention your stories only if you have good stories. If you improved from 1100 to 1300 don't talk about it. Post about how you overcame the little gap and made fewer mistakes.</p>
<p>Give me a P! Give me an R! Give me an A! Give me a C! Give me a T! Give me an I! Give me a C! Give me an E! What does that spell? </p>
<p>PRACTICE!</p>
<p>I took the SAT for the third and final time in Dec and went up 120 points total from the previous!</p>
<p>Had: M700/R690/W690 (1390/2080)
Have:M730/R710/760 (1440/2200)</p>
<p>didn't do anything major. just slept A LOT the night before and felt really confident. not too much practice..</p>
<p>Yup - practice is the key. The CollegeBoard website has lots of practice materials. Go back over the ones that you miss until you understand why you missed them. Also, memorize all the instructions for all the sections before you take the test so that you buy yourself some extra time during the test. Be aware of the easiest-to-hardest ordering of problems in each section, so that you know an obvious answer on question #2 is probably correct and an obvious answer on #24 is probably a trick. Don't waste time trying to conceptualize the route to a math answer if you can just choose a random number, insert it for x, and see which answer works - the SAT doesn't require you to "show your work."</p>
<p>Please elaborate I don't know what you did. If you just say practice it doesn't help I took 8 real SATs before the test and got around 1680-1720 on them and got 1720 on the real SAT. I always have like 3 mistakes per section(out of the 10 sections) at a minimum and may have more. No matter how many times I take the test I still make 3 mistakes at the least. I want to know how to reduce these three mistakes to say 1 per section.</p>
<p>You should be constantly improving with each practice test you take. If you are not, that means that you are not understanding which questions you get wrong, and are therefore making the same mistakes the next time around. It is absolutely crucial that you go back over every question that you missed and see a) why you chose the incorrect answer, b) why that answer is not correct, and c) why the correct answer is correct. The types of questions that you miss are bound to show up on the next test, so it doesn't help to get them wrong time and time again.</p>
<p>1870 (middle school, cold) ----> 2000 (soph, cold) [215 PSAT] ----> 2130 (junior, kinda cold) [211 PSAT]
* FUTURE HOPE * ----> 2400 (senior, prep)</p>
<p>BB practice: highest score range so far =/ why can't i do this on the real thing?</p>
<p>i'd really say
taking more practice problems really helps</p>
<p>Wow that's some massive improvement Jennie. I'm sure you'll get there :)</p>
<p>I make some mistakes in one test but those mistakes are not similar to those I make in another test. I review the test and find the mistakes and next time avoid them but there are some other traps I fall into it happens in each test. Something needs to click for me until that happens I don't think anything is going to improve.</p>
<p>psat 2070 --> sat (no practice) 2200 --> sat (practiced critical reading sr. yr.) 2340</p>
<p>TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
I brought up my reading score from 700 to 800 by taking timed practiced tests. I realized i was rushing through it at first, and learned to pace myself and read more carefully. I also recommend retaking the SATs, even if you're happy with your original score. Its only a few hours of testing and if you wait a few months in between, you might just get smarter without even practicing.</p>
<p>Sometimes I'm really stunned by you guys. In your first attempts you do so well without any prep but students who work hard for months suck at the test why does it happen?</p>
<p>I know EXACTLY what you mean about having a consistent 3 errors per section thing. I had the exact same problem mainly due to carelessness, the worst of all errors. </p>
<p>If you're a math guy like me, start with math as a subject you want to nail. Then the trick (at least for me) is, at the end of each page, to look over the entire page at least once or twice to make sure that you didn't misread a question somewhere along the line. This is definitely the hardest to do with math, since they often put down the little errors they expect you to make as answers, so you don't expect them to be wrong.</p>
<p>If you like CR or Writing, it's more of the same. At the end of each group of 5 questions, took back over everything you did, and if you're not sure about anything, mark it to come back later.</p>
<p>After a few tests, you'll start to get a really good sense for where your errors lie without even checking the back. This is when you start pulling in the good scores and acing sections. </p>
<p>Just for inspiration, I started off with 1900 in my freshman year, and improved almost 500 points :D</p>
<p>Finally someone who understands my problem I'll apply your principles and see what happens.</p>