<p>Hey guys, 5 months ago i posted a thread describing how bombshelled i was when i recived my first SAT score(1660). Back then, i recieved a few words of consolation for not having prepared enough and that alot of student do usually bad on their first test.</p>
<p>So with high hopes, i emerged myself in a comprehensive preparation where i've been doing tuitions-one for CR and grammar and one for math- for the rest of five month and solved the blue Collegebook atleast twice and the red collegebook atleast once. My scores seemed to reach the bounderies between 2000 and 2100, so i felt relatively confident for my second and hopefully,"final" Sat exam.</p>
<p>Today, when i opened my scores for an instant my whole body went numb and my mind couldnt process what the numbers represented. I had scored 1860.
When i opened the news to my eager mom, her face went gray and simply asked me to "take the test one more time."</p>
<p>I mean, i felt like i devoted my whole life just preparing for this exam and now the prospect of doing it all over again? </p>
<p><strong>Do you guys think there is still hope left for me? That is, can i score above 2000?</strong></p>
<p>Anyways, my kudos and cheers to all those who did great and my empathy and understanding to those who didnt do so great-i know how it feels.</p>
<p>Hey, I think you can improve. What were your individual scores? The easiest to boost is writing followed by math. CR is pretty hard to increase, but possible over a whole summer.</p>
<p>You improved by 200 before, why not do it again?
(I went from a 162 on the psat last year to a 2210(Superscored) this year).
If you work, you can do it.
Btw what are the individual scores?</p>
<p>One thing that I've noticed is that SAT scores are rather unpredictable...</p>
<p>That's not to say that hard work won't help you. Take a few more practice tests and whatnot, and if you see you do well, stop. The truth is, you've worked hard and your practice tests, at least, reflect that.</p>
<p>With some luck and justice your next SAT will also reflect that. But there's a chance it won't, and if it doesn't, don't be too down on yourself. You didn't slack off, you applied yourself. Besides, unlike the commonly held view on this website, the SAT is NOT your entire application.</p>
<p>You went up by quite a bit. SAT's scores don't usually change that much from one test to another so I think you should be proud. I am a mother and sorry that your mother's face went gray. Unless you want to go to an Ivy League school, that is a good score. Go on the college board website and search for your colleges and do the "How Do I Stack Up". If you are within the range, you should be able to get in where you want. There is always a possibility of going down, so you have to weigh your options, but I would base it on what school you want to go to and what their requirements are.</p>
<p>Taewoo, there IS still hope, as long as you don't give up! Continue practicing (but don't let it take over your life, you have to have fun sometime) and maybe pick up a few good books to read. Increasing your reading time little by little may help your CR/writing scores. Remember that you can't do better than your best, so always, always give it your best effort. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>yo man dont be down
i used to score like in the 1800-2000 range and on the march SAT i got 2010. this summer i am going to improve CR and math. its very possible to increase another 200 pts. my friend jumped from 1400-2000 in 1 summer. are you an international student? your name suggests so (korean?). if you are truly an international student and korean, its very hard to improve in CR because of lack of exposure to English. read many books and continue practicing. i wish you the very best</p>
<p>Taewoo, first and foremost you went up 200 points. Hey the ETS would investigate if you went up 350 points. Be strong and proud. Take stock and plan your next move. There are some very interesting threads on the SAT board that might help you. Check out the Dark Knight thread (post 1) on how important is vocabulary. Your 580 CR score probably indicates that you are having trouble with level 4 and 5 vocab words. A number of posts (again on the SAT board) strongly support the strategy of learning the vocab words in Direct Hits Vocabulary, PR's Hit Parade and Rocket Review's Core words. These three overlap a lot and the total number of different words is about 600. Taken together they have been generating an amazing number of hits. For example, Direct Hits had 13 hits on the June SAT. The PR Hit Parade added 3 more for a total of 16 direct hits out of 21 Level 3 - 5 words. Good luck Taewoo - don't give up!</p>
<p>i went up 120 pts in writing with no preparation - just the time between january and june. the test is really unpredictable, so its worth taking again. you never know!!!</p>
<p>i think you can definitely do great if u just study. i know it seems sooooo bad to have to study all over again. but i think u can raise ur score. its really easy to raise the writing if not anything else =)</p>
<p>give up with the SAT and take the ACT, like erin's dad said. the strategies you learned with the SAT carry over so its not like all of that studying was put to waste.</p>
<p>So you say you are depressed so I will tell you a story that Ive told many that scored lower than they expected. In my sophomore year I thought I would dominate PSAT, however to my surprise i got 49 CR, 71 M, 49 W. I was starstruck and disappointed. So I decided to try to work on CR and W over the summer between soph. and junior year however even with all the work my scores barely increased 59 CR 71 M 67 W. I was aiming for NMSF, but I wasn't even close to the cutoff, in fact I wasn't even commended. Therefore I worked even harder on my SAT that I wanted to take in March. I got 700 CR 770 M 630 W with a 6 essay. I was happy with the 700 CR but I really thought I could get 800 M and 700+ in W so I tried again in June I ended up with 670 CR 790 M 780 W with 12 essay.</p>
<p>Now I am going to describe my prep.</p>
<p>Math: I only did practice tests. I usually made a couple dumb mistakes or didn't read the question, so all that i needed to do was pace my self. You might want to look at whether you make dumb mistakes or don't know the question. If you don't know the concepts then I would suggest using rocket review and barrons math prep along with QAS from the Google Groups CC-SAT prep.</p>
<p>CR: I thought studying vocabulary would be a waste because when you study 3000 words 20 might show up on the SAT, therefore I learned all the roots that the barrons prep book had, it was very useful to help find SC answers. Other than that I did numerous sections. Also I picked up a little trick on CC where you look at the line numbers then bracket those line numbers in the passage, read the passage, and once you reach the end of a bracket you answer the question, and then answer the remaining questions. I think I got that off the Xiggi SAT prep advice. Grammatix was also a helpful guide for SC and passage answers.</p>
<p>Writing: I first realized that the problem was I didn't understand a lot of the rules. I read over Rocket Review a few times. The essay writing techniques were also really helpful.</p>
<p>I would aim for 2-4 practice tests a week, but usually did one. Hope this helps, if you need anything else please feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>i would say math is the easiest to improve, because math is universal. its the one section that, if you try hard enough, you can get 100% on, because the concepts remain the same. CR is a lot of interpretation, so its harder, and the english language has a gazillion words , so its impossible to memorize them all. writing has the essay which is graded by somebody, so even if you're really good, you might not get a 800.</p>
<p>CR and W can't give you clear cut scores, but math can. if you know the concepts required, you can get a certain 800. work on math and good luck!</p>