<p>I'm a sophmore..
Should I begin studying and preparing for SATS already?
and if so, what should I do to prepare?</p>
<p>Yo… if I knew what I know now, I would have began my SAT studies after 7th grade.</p>
<p>You should start preparing. To prepare, get yourself a few books. The only book that you must have is College Board’s Official Guide to the SAT (a.k.a. blue book or BB on collegeconfidential). Other titles that are good:
-RocketReview Revolution SAT
-Barron’s SAT 2400 (not the thick Preparing for the SAT book that was originally published in the 50s…)
-Direct Hits Vocabulary
-College Board’s Official SAT Online Course if you run out of practice tests
-Princeton Review if all else fails…</p>
<p>Get all the those books mentioned above but I wouldn’t touch the BB until you’re familiar with how the SAT works and know the types of questions they ask based on your other prep books. Your BB is to teach you how to solve specific problems that you have trouble with, not serve as an example of how the SAT looks like, you have the unofficial prep books for that. Learning the passive vocabulary early and learn the techniques and the way the SAT works in princeton review and/or baron’s. Then once you’re comfortable and did practice problems to merely apply strategy, then start working on the Blue book to access and critically analyze your problems and weakpoints.</p>
<p>The good thing about the SAT is, other than memorizing certain math formulas that can be derived or memorized after you use it so many times, you won’t “forget” much so there’s no harm preparing early unlike history where you might forget some of the specific underlying details and events should you stop looking at it for a few months.</p>