<p>Is it realistic? I have always been a bad test taker, my grades in school are great, but these standardized tests kill me. Is a ~350 point increase realistic? What can I do to make it realistic? I am a rising senior, and currently spending an hour to two hours every night studying for the tests in the fall. I am very serious and dedicated to seriously bringing my score up. Please help!</p>
<p>You can do it! Get the blue book and go HAM! Learn the test and you’ll be scoring 2000+! It’s extremely realistic, and it’s been done 100’s of thousands of time. (Literally)</p>
<p>Thanks! Math is the hardest for me, so I dont think I cant get over 500 in math, so I’m relying on Reading and Writing scores to bring the score up.</p>
<p>The lower the score the easier it is to increase. There’s an art to standardized test taking. You might be a good candidate for a SAT program. GL</p>
<p>It’s just so frustrating, I’m talented in reading/writing but i still get 500’s in those sections. I don’t get it. I do great on the vocab part, it’s the reading comprehension and correcting sentences that I do poorly on. It’s the most annoying and frustrating thing. I know i’m bad at math, and so lower scores dont bother me so much, but it’s the fact that i should be scoring in the 6/700’s in the reading and writing sections.</p>
<p>Develop your own strategy and stick with it.
For example, see whether taking notes while reading aids you or only serves as a setback.
Start slowly and don’t time yourself. With time you should be able to get better :)</p>
<p>You can do it. If you study right, one or two hours per evening until the November test should definitely get you over 1900 I think. I wouldn’t be surprised if you wound up with a score over 2000 at that pace. Sounds like you already have 80% of the puzzle: dedication.</p>
<p>Don’t put off the math section. Even if you’re bad at math, the math section is probably the easiest one to improve in (then writing, then reading).</p>
<p>Starting at a 1550 I think it would be a good idea to get some workbooks. I haven’t used them myself but a lot of people like Gruber’s math workbook and Rocket Review for writing and CR.</p>
<p>“I dont think I can get over 500 points in math”</p>
<p>Thats your problem. Stop thinking and just do the problems. Your mental barrier is what’s slowing you down.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the feedback! I have a tendency to over think the math problems, which is my biggest downfall. If i can get over that I should be alright. CR and Writing will take some work and a lot of practice, but I’ll do anything to increase my score.</p>
<p>It’s definitely possible. My sat score has improved by 600 points (yes 600) since I got a 146 on my PSAT sophomore year. I am studying everyday over the summer to take my final SAT in October and I am looking at breaking 2200.</p>
<p>How did you do that!!</p>
<p>Wow, so I wrote a lengthy response but then CC said I wasn’t logged in… so I lost it all.</p>
<p>But anyways it was just hard work and a lot of practice tests.
Make sure you review all of the questions you get wrong.
There are plenty of CR threads on this forum that I used to improve that score.
Google “Sparknotes SAT seven deadly screwups”, that helped my writing score.</p>
<p>My scores went like this:
146 PSAT(Sophomore)–> 1780 SAT(before Junior PSAT)–> 188 PSAT (Junior) -->2060 SAT</p>
<p>The sophomore PSAT was with zero prep, and absolutely no familiarity with the SAT. I would get to question 16 in a CR section when time would be up, and then I would fill in random answers for the remaining 9 questions without even seeing what was being asked or what the passage even was! Regardless, it was still an official test so it counts. </p>
<p>Hopefully on my third try in October I get a 2200! Practice tests indicate that I am less than 100 points away from that goal!</p>
<p>I know I probably sound annoying but when I read those 7 tips, they don’t seem to be like anything from the BB (on the improving sentence section) and how do you spot out the mistake in the sentence (do you find the verbs and nouns?..)? Please help!</p>
<p>The BB does offers tips, hints, and advice, but many are misleading. And in my own opinion, the CollegeBoard wants people to believe that they can’t improve their scores significantly; such as that my case, if they described it, would be extremely, extremely, extremely, unlikely to happen. </p>
<p>The CollegeBoard does not want every student to do exceptionally well on the SAT. </p>
<p>I also don’t mind your questions, they aren’t annoying.</p>
<p>“How do you spot out the mistake in the sentence” is sort of vague… If a sentence as a whole or if a part of it doesn’t follow proper grammar, then there is an error. The guide should help you to identify common errors that occur in the writing section.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advise!!</p>
<p>Anything is possible, just need to study</p>
<p>10th grade psat: 156
11th grade psat: 159
march sat: 1620
june sat: 2030
goal for october: 2300+</p>
<p>All the hail the blue book. You do it, and you get a problem wrong? Find out why. Remember to go back and check your answers for careless mistakes. This is cheesy but sleep and nutrition really help. Also water. On the math section you can substitute the answers on many of them. Good luck!</p>
<p>I really need help with the CR. In writing, I have like 650. Math 540, and CR 400. I’m nowhere near 2000, and I need to get at least 2100! Any tips for Cr? or Math and Writing? Please? I am very desperate!</p>
<p>if you are getting 400 on CR, just memorizing A LOT of vocab will get you up to 600+. I would recommend memorizing both word smart I and word smart II, if you do so you’ll get at max 3 total vocab (sentence completion) wrong, usually none or 1. Math is just practice and review over and over, do as many tests as possible, but you should save the blue book tests for days that are close to your test date. Writing is also just practice test over and over again until you become familiar with the concepts (subj. verb agreement, parallelism, idioms)</p>
<p>^agreed, Ive heard direct hits is a good review book as well for vocab… Try whats best for you!!~ GL!!</p>