<p>I recently took an SAT practice test. Here are my results:</p>
<p>Critical Reading: 480 - 540</p>
<p>Writing: 460 - 590</p>
<p>Math: 500 - 560</p>
<p>I have strictly 15 days left until my first SAT exam. What could I do to improve? I've been studying for soo long, and now I'm just tired of it. I really want to push up my Math, Critical Reading, and Writing scores before the end of the month, so I need to work reaaally hard. </p>
<p>I'm just not motivated anymore.</p>
<p>I studied harder when I started prepping than I do now. Please help - any tips will be greatly appreciated!!</p>
<p>Are two weeks just enough to improve (if I dedicated myself and worked hard)? Help would be greatly appreciated ASAP (as I'm growing so paranoid!). Thank you!</p>
<p>keep practicing, work on your weak points. you'll do fine.</p>
<p>i'm taking it for the first time as well, and i havn't quite studied enough to satisfy myself, but I guess for these next 15 days, i'll just work strongly on my weakpoints</p>
<p>how well do you want to do? if your looking to just maintain those scores or raise them about 50 or so points, then the BEST thing you can do in this amount of time is just do as many practice tests as you can. get the blue book from college board and just complete as many of those tests as you can, practice may not make perfect, but it will sure help A LOT. if you already completed that book, i'd go with princeton review</p>
<p>Look for patterns in where you mess up. Do you always miss subject-verb agreement questions in the Writing section? Are you bad at Geometry? Try to identify these weak areas and really concentrate on them.</p>
<p>What should I do if I feel like I am burnt out? I am taking the June exam as well and am feeling very nervous because I feel like I studied too much (4-5 hours a day for 2 1/2 months straight along with a private tutor 3 times a week) . My scores have gone down slightly according to my last practice test. Please help, this sucks!!!</p>
<p>I think I am smart, I went from 740-780 on math to 640-700, and reading and writing have always been 640-660, but the math is killing me. I was certain that I would get a high score.</p>
<p>Well, I'm enrolled in Collegeboard's Official SAT Online course, and I've been doing a couple of Math quizzes for awhile now. Whenever I get them scored, I study the skill catergories and I try to find the one that has the lowest percentage. </p>
<p>I've found two catergories (out of four) that I tend to be the most weakest at: Managing Complexity and Modeling and Insight, with Modeling and Insight being the weakest.</p>
<p>Here are the descriptions for each skill catergory:</p>
<p>Managing Complexity: </p>
<p>Student can keep track of a great deal of information or proceed through many steps to solve a question with a higher level of complexity. Correctly answering a question that is multistep may require the student to have the initiative to continue on for each step in the path to the solution. In some cases, that initiative may be required to take the first step of plunging in and attempting the solution of a nonroutine problem. </p>
<p>Managing Complexity:</p>
<p>Student can use insight and modeling to answer a question with a higher level of difficulty. Insights are those realizations that often seem easy when someone else points them out, but are difficult to see by oneself. A student who can model or "create a representation" has the ability to create equations for word problems when that involves more than just rote translation. They can also create or add to graphs or figures to solve problems. Part of the skill of creating representations is deciding what kind of representation would be useful for solving a problem. </p>
<p>Anyone have any tips for mastering these two skill catergorys in such a short amount of time?</p>
<p>I also have a bit of trouble with the Critical Reading section (passage questions). Anyone have any tips for those types of questions? Thank you!</p>
<p>COLsen573: (This is if you were referring to me) - no, I think I'm smart - not supertalented WOW smart, just average smart. I'm not dumb. In feburary, I took my first practice test and got like around 350-430 in Math. I think a 500-560 score in Math now compared to THAT score in Feburary is pretty good. </p>
<p>I believe that maybe, after a lot of hard work and practice, I could push my Math to a 600.</p>
<p>Garden, keep up the good work. I feel you, I don't really know what to do, just keep at it. If you don't do too well on this one, there is always sept.</p>