<p>Hi everybody! So I took the SAT recently in March and I received my score.
CR 700
M 720
W 620 MC 59 E 9</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised by my CR score since apparently I never really get higher than 650 on practice tests. I think I was 1 of the only 2 people who broke 700 in my grade in school?
Honestly, I think I got lucky. I don't know how I'd be able to raise that score, I feel like I've reached my limit -__-</p>
<p>As for math, I'm extremely disappointed. My last SAT I took, which was a long time ago, I got a perfect score. So I guess it's okay. </p>
<p>Writing was a terrible fiasco. Like wth? 59? This is lower than my 10th grade PSAT writing score!!! I just idk, I thought I did descent. Apparently not!! How do I improve on writing?
I purchased the Gruber workbook for writing and will concentrate on it all spring break. </p>
<p>So this gives me a final score of 1420/2040. By October, I really would like to get over 2200+.
How can I prepare? Is there any courses I can take over the summer specifically designed for getting over 2200? I'll also be taking the SAT again in May.</p>
<p>Any other general advice would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>I don’t know of any programs that are “specifically designed” for getting over 2200. I’m not saying there aren’t any - I just haven’t heard of any. Honestly I think the best way to prep is to get the collegeboard Blue Book and work your way through it. If you get a question wrong, make sure you understand exactly what you did wrong, and also what you should have done. Make a list of the kinds of mistakes you make. Do you always think the subject of a sentence is in a prepositional phrase? Do you consistently choose a CR answer that is too extreme? Do you frequently turn the hypotenuse into a leg when you are using the Pythagorean Theorem? Keep the list - and then be really intentional about not making those same mistakes.</p>
<p>Yeah, perhaps. Dreaming about Columbia is a really good thing, now just think about laying the needed platform to make that dream a reality. If you attempt many practice papers, you should be in a pretty good form. Just be focused, determined, and inspired (easy to say, i know. Inspiration and motivation is the most essential thing one needs to achieve anything). Picture yourself as walking down the corridors of Columbia before you sit to prepare for SAT and study as long as you can. Don’t count hours while studying, study until you feel that you’ve done some proper work which would contribute to the factor of score raise. Don’t sit with book just for the sake of it when you are not at all interested in reading, you’ll completely lose the interest in that book. Study only when you feel like, apparently, if you are so much in to getting admission in Columbia, you would feel the need for studying hard.</p>
<p>I do. I think about it everyday, and sometimes I just give up. A lot of my teachers and peers praise me for my work ethic. But to be completely frank, I am not a hard core studier as they think I am. I have tons of reasons for being motivated but I have way too many other circumstances to concentrate on than studying. But it’s now or never, right? I’ll regret it later if I don’t push myself now. </p>
<p>Going to Columbia means so much more to me. It is my outlet and a chance for me to go back to a city where I was born and raised in. I also need financial aid, and what not. I just don’t know…work hard now then work harder later? </p>
<p>I wrote my personal statement a week ago after I got a random email from Columbia. I was so motivated LOL. It was funny.</p>
<p>Hmn…you don’t have to be a slog to get a good score in SAT, of course. Seems like motivation comes just like that, so easily for you, its a good thing actually (I wish the same case was with me as well). You don’t have to worry about financial aids now itself, just aim at getting a great score in SAT. </p>
<p>If you get like 2300+, what more? All worries apart, just focus on the studies part. I get bored easily, like, just after taking two or three 25 minutes section itself and can’t continue with the test, all the concentration would be lost in a limbo (wondering how I’m gonna manage with it in the real SAT).</p>
<p>Maybe you need a break from studying?
I did not attempt any SAT stuff for 2 weeks, and when I went to back to practicing, I felt more confident than ever mostly because I was answering everything correctly. </p>
<p>Easiest way to motivate yourself is to watch a really good heart-felt movie…those always help me. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I probably will not get over 2300…not naturally good/smart enough, simple as that. You really need to be a good test taker to do very well and I’ve never been one.</p>
<p>I want to go to Columbia too. I’m a sophmore and I haven’t taken the SAT but I recently took a practice test and…waiting for my score. Anyway just to accentuate what the above people said, I would honestly tell you to take a section of a test everyday so you can improve (like what I’m doing). Also really look into the questions you got wrong, take an SAT prep class if your school or county college offers it.</p>
<p>P.S- understand about the Personal Statement lol I already have mine planned out :)</p>