<p>As a high school freshman who recently took the SAT without preparation and received a score of 1970, I was wondering if y'all (it's habit saying that, being from Alabama) think that with preparation and further education I could improve my score to something around a 2150/2200. Any input appreciated.</p>
<p>I would highly suggest practicing a lot and waiting until your junior year to retake. You’ve exhausted one of the two recommended attempts. It’s really way too early to be taking actual exams that count. You still have 2 years of PSATs left, so slow down and don’t jump the gun b/c it could affect your college pursuits in the future.</p>
<p>Two more years of high level English should be enough to raise CR, math and writing simply take practice. Be patient. Good luck!</p>
<p>That’s what I figured. Thank you. My essay definitely wasn’t my best work, and I got a 10, and after junior year I will have had Pre-Calculus and Alg2/Trig (taking honors unified geometry now, and both aforementioned math classes will be honors level), and Honors English 10 and AP Lang. If that gives a better preview into the future to help with prediction.</p>
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<p>Evan you are in GREAT shape. If your goal is 2200, with practice you will attain that goal for sure. When I took the PSAT in Freshman year, I got 1690, almost 200 points lower than YOUR score, but after much practice, My SAT score is in the 2200s. I plan on taking it a third time so Evan, keep up the good work. =)</p>
<p>Thank you! And congrats on your much improved score!</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what compelled you to take it so early?</p>
<p>I guess as a sort of a way to see what I could do. I now realize it was a bad decision.</p>
<p>easily. without prep i was getting about an 1800. with prep and a few tries on the SAT i got a 2260</p>
<p>My daughter’s first PSAT score was 190-something. Her second PSAT was not much higher. Her one and only SAT score was 2310. In the interim between PSATs and SAT, she had aged and caught up (she is a full year younger than her PSAT/SAT/same grade peers), and she had diligently, but nothing crazy, gone through a weekly practice SAT test, over 9 mos. She isolated what she thought were consistent errors and had a few sessions with an SAT tutor. We had offered her ongoing tutoring, and she vehemently declined, saying that that was the path to crazy-making.</p>
<p>The good news, too, according to my daughter and her friends, was that the Subject tests (SAT IIs) were pretty curriculum-based and less elusive tests for that reason, and, thus my daughter scored high (750+) on each of her three SAT IIs, without any real prep, unless you count the SAT practice tests as legitimate prep for any sort of standardized test.</p>
<p>So, practice, that seemed to make a big difference in my daughter’s SAT performance, over a protracted time. And good luck!</p>
<p>thecolorred - you are a unique case. Most people don’t (cant?) improve that much with prep. Hopefully there are not too many people like you, who, unlike you, don’t prepare.</p>