<p>So I am looking to take the SAT's in January (January 25th) and I was wondering if you guys could help me find the best way to bring up my score. I am currently about:</p>
<p>Writing: 790-800 (from princeton review book)
Math: 660 (from princeton review book)
Critical Reading: 630 (From princeton review book)</p>
<p>This comes out to about 2050ish. Do you think it is possible for me to get a 2300 on the January SAT? I am planning to memorize a bunch of vocab, and I'm doing Dr. Chung's book right now to try to bump me up at least in math. Do you guys have any tips for critical reading? I almost always miss about 2-3 in every section of sentence completion. Thanks!</p>
<p>If you’re getting 790-800s in math you don’t really need to do too much more other than practice to stay in shape lol. Chung’s was a good choice, though.</p>
<p>For CR/Math you NEED to get the blue Collegeboard SAT book. The yellow Gruber’s book also has a good list of vocab you can study. </p>
<p>A 2300 for you would probably mean an 800 in math and a 750 in both CR and writing. Depending on if you’re good at LA or not, this could either be a possibility or a real reach. If you’re mathematically minded you should be able to pull up your MC writing score since the grammar rules are relatively consistent, but the essay is another story.</p>
<p>I’m just gonna copy-paste what I just told some other person about CR:</p>
<p>I was told to write everywhere on the reading sections. In other words, circle important words in the passage, underline key phrases, etc. while you are reading through. Physically cross out the answers you KNOW are wrong so you can concentrate on narrowing down the right answer. It helps keep you focused. I know it sounds stupid but it really helps. If you encounter those bits that require you to compare two passages, scribble a little summary of the first passage you read, answer the q’s that only require that one passage, and THEN read the second one, scribble a summary, and answer the rest. Sentence completion can also be made easier by just crossing out the words that definitely don’t fit, and it’s actually all just process of elimination - if one word doesn’t fit, the whole answer doesn’t work, so sometimes you can use this to get away with not knowing vocab (but if I were you I’d study some anyway.)</p>
<p>It is totally possible to get a 2050. I was pretty surprised when I took mine (being a published writer and a creative writing major in high school) that I scored lower in writing, did average in CR, and excelled in Math. One thing that tricks people on sentence completion and errors is not noticing the key words and tone of the voice. If you can figure out the tone and key words, completing sentences won’t be an issue. Now I don’t know why I scored poorly in writing as I can write first draft AP papers and get an easy 85-90 and revise to get a 95-100. Math I think of it as kind of from a logical perspective, I’m bad at test taking in class but I memorize well, but I also analyze the problem from different angles and solve accordingly to my sense of logic (I only had 1QT wrong in the data & stat sec of math which makes up about 65% of the math).</p>
<p>I’d really study on CR and Math though, your writing is fine. People think of math too critically and they get obsessive while I look at it through common sense, and I end up scoring higher than them. Chung’s book though is helpful. But all I used for actual study material is Kaplan’s SAT book with CD a.</p>
<p>Just to be clear. I want to reach 2300 by January. And my math and cr is what needs improvement. Thanks guys for the tips! I thought Kaplan’s tests were considered easier than the actual SAT? Anyone know anything about that?</p>
<p>Oh, I’m sorry - I misread your original post O_o My bad.</p>
<p>Regardless, get that blue Collegeboard book since the actual SAT test makers released it and the other books can potentially make you worse. Generally PR is easier or about the same level, Barron’s is harder, but I’m not positive about Kaplan.</p>
<p>For math, you need to do as many problems as you can. Chung’s is likely much harder than the actual exam but if you can get good at all the problems that should really help conceptulally. If you find yourself making lots of stupid mistakes, grab non-Chung books and just do one or two math sections a day, and keep doing it. Eventually the silly mistakes will decrease in number.</p>
<p>A quick update. I took a Practice PSAT today, and I got:</p>
<p>Math: 64
CR: 74
Writing: 78 </p>
<p>Total=216</p>
<p>I know the conversion to the SAT would be a 2160, but is this really a true conversion? In addition, how do I improve on math?!?!? It is singlehandedly keeping me from NMF and breaking 2300 on SAT!</p>
<p>Hey guys. So apparently I calculated the score above wrong for CR. :(. But here is an updated one. I have taken two tests and they have been this score (+/- one point in CR and Math). </p>
<p>Math: 70
CR: 71
Writing: 78</p>
<p>Does this actually correlate to the SAT accurately? What can I do to bring up my math! When I check my answers, I always find stupid mistakes like not reading the question! After going back, I should have only gotten 3 Math wrong, instead of 6! </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Personally, I’ve found that math is slightly easier on the PSAT, but everything else is pretty much the same (Besides the essay of course, but you seem to be doing well in writing). My advice to you for math: I went from a 580 (The first practice test I took last year) to roughly a 750 now (I know it’s not perfect, but it’s still raising). The three things that helped me: a) Take LOTS of practice tests, b) underline what the question is asking you to find, and c) if you have the blue book, review every question (even the ones you got right) with the website. This will reinforce ideas and maybe clear up some questions you had. Also, once you see your score starting to rise and you feel more confident, cut down the time on the math sections by 25%, then when you take the actual test you will have time to check over your answers and look for any silly mistakes. I usually finish math sections with 6-9 minutes to spare now. It worked for me so give it a shot!</p>
<p>Yeah. So I tried this ^ on the recent SAT Test I took with an event. I’ll get my scores in a week and let you guys know</p>