SAT strategy/advice?

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<p>hey guys </p>

<p>ok so,</p>

<p>my highest sat score is 1960 (660M, 620V, 680W). My last chance to improve my score is in December and I was wondering if someone could give me some advice on how to boost my scores.
My goal is to get around like a 660-680 for critical reading, and a 700+ for math.
I've completed PR 11 prac tests, the collegeboard book, barrons critical reading workbook for the new sat, and i'm about to finish kaplan's 12 practice tests.
Does anyone have any advice as to how i should achieve my desired scores?</p>

<p>Any input is appreciated.
Thanks.</p>

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<p>Don't do homework after school. Spend at least 900 hours on the SAT. I know it sounds like I'm joking, but it works. Raised my score 300+ points.</p>

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<p>don't listen to him. GPA and academic rank (as well as how hard your courseload is) is far more important than your SAT scores.</p>

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<p>Wow. Don't even believe for a second that JShi is giving you good advice. Sick joke, man.</p>

<p>Depends on what grade you're in. If you're a senior, just do more practice, and go to a math teacher to help explain to you any iffy questions that you don't completely understand. When you're ready, you should be able to fly through math insanely fast. As for the other sections, I'm a slow reader, so that's always been a mitigating factor and isn't something I can change overnight, or even over a few months. But practice and honing your test-taking and skills of deduction are two skills, that I dare say are even more important than actually knowing the material.</p>

<p>Be generous with your pencil, and immediately cross out choices you know are wrong.</p>

<p>Also, in writing, the right answer is almost always the shortest possibility. At least in the early questions - later qs can become trickier, where they give you almost perfect answers, but embedded with some minor flaw that makes another choice that isn't your favorite, but technically more correct, the answer.</p>

<p>Uhh.</p>

<p>Whatever. I know that's really vague. Just.. gah, you don't need to take more than 10 tests, ever. It sounds like you've taken like 30. Slow down and go over questions and concepts thoroughly.</p>

<p>Oh, and buy a watch. I keep track of my speed almost obssesively, to keep myself moving even though I never skip answers - it's kind of a way of making myself stressed, which is the only state in which my mind can function efficiently.</p>

<p>Also, if you have a TI-89, take advantage of its versatility! Its solve() function and support for inequalities (just a few of its capabilities) can be very helpful, but they can also be abused and end up wasting your time. If you don't have one now and you're a senior, though, don't bother with it. The calc has a steep learning curve. It's not THAT useful, and sides, graphing is more convenient with a TI-83. Graphing and solving for roots (and the TI-89's factor(exp,x)) can be very useful with the last, most difficult questions in the math section.</p>