<p>Can anyone offer advice on how you studied for the sat math section on ur own? Particluarly someone who's NOT a natural math genuis, but improved a 500-600, to a 600-700. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Practice, practice, practice. Hit that blue book and do as many timed math sections as possible. Soon you’ll begin to recognize the fact that there are only a certain number of problem types. For example, there are many problems involving permutations that may seem tricky at first, but with enough practice, these problems won’t catch you off-guard on the real test and you will be able to answer these questions confidently and correctly.</p>
<p>On my practice tests I was scoring in the high six hundreds but I improved this to a 770…
The trick for breaking into that higher echelon of scores is to learn ways to solve the problems faster. Here are some steps you could try</p>
<p>1) I’d suggest doing all the timed math sections in the blue book…princeton review is also good since they offer good explanations for their answers
2) Analyze the mistakes you made and record what types of problems you got wrong and why you got them wrong. Keep track of your errors and look for any trends ( i.e. you get lots of easy ratio problems wrong since you go too fast or something). Once you find these trends, then it will be easier eliminate errors and raise your score.
3) Practice, practice, practice. Look for shortcuts to do problems quicker, and make sure you do enough practice tests so you can finish on time. T</p>
<p>Hope that helps :)</p>
<p>I started out pretty close to an 800 (only -2 or -3). I developed a strategy for the types of problems I missed, which were usually d=rt problems, or Venn Diagrams. Now I conquer these annoying little problems. Also, attention to detail helps.</p>
<p>Also “practice, practice, practice,” idea, although productive, is inefficient and time consuming. Usually the same problems will trick you over and over again so I would just spend around 20-30 mins on the difficult problems. Try to develop a systematic method of your own.</p>
<p>just practice the types problems that you’re missing most often.</p>
<p>i improved my score from 670 to 800 but i didn’t really study in between the tests (may-november). I think I just double-checked my work a lot better the second time. After I completed all of the problems in a section, I’d use the time left to go through and re-solve any ones that I found particularly difficult. If I had enough time, I’d also go and make sure that I bubbled in the right letter for every question in the section.</p>
<p>Well, I improved my math score from around a 650 to an 800 but all i have to say is to keep on practicing. Buy the blue college board practice book or the princeton review sat practice book (either one contains many many practice problems) off of amazon.</p>
<p>I also suggest that you learn more of the functions and features on your calculator. The ti83 has a lot of features that are very useful. Most people don’t realize the hidden abilities that it has.</p>
<p>Another note: for the multiple choice questions, you may want to “plug in” your answers in the x or the answer you are trying to find. of course, this wont work for every case and is very time consuming. Just keep practicing.</p>
<p>The thing that worked for me.
Try to do the section as quickly as possible, and don’t ‘recheck’ your answer as you go through the section. As you go through the questions, circle the ones that you think have the maximum possibility of error. When you’re done with the section, go back and utilize the time remaining in redoing and not merely rechecking the circled questions. If you still have time remaining, recheck, review, recheck, review.
Of course, practice is important. I’d advice you to do as many lone math sections as possible, with the strategy aforementioned. If you are scoring ~600, you probably don’t have a “concept” problem. You have an accuracy/alacrity problem. And I’ve already mentioned how you can deal with it. :)</p>