Hey!
I am preparing for the SAT test on the 7th of October 2017. On my first attempt, i got a 1370. However, my target this time is around 1530+. I have been prepping since last two months and have managed to raise my score to 1440 on the practice tests. My math score has been constantly increasing and has reached the 800 mark. But my EBRW score fluctuates a lot and my highest yet has been 680. I have taken 11 practice tests as of now and my graph looks something like this https://ibb.co/gbfTEF. Please suggest what to do now! :((
We have the exact same problem bro. My maths is also good like 780-800, but my EBRW is never exceeding 660, sometimes my reading is high sometime my writing is high but never at the same time. I am also writing sat October 7. But I have gotten better tho, I haven’t done collegeboard practice test in a long time but I hope to reach 1500 when next I do it. I have been doing McGraw- whose passages are way too long- and I am in the 1370-1400 range. I am also doing Barron’s, Kaplan, and Princeton. I really want to ace this sat 1500+ and get into tufts. Well my beat advise is for you to focus on your writing and language section, it’s easily improvable but reading scores matter on the difficulty of the passages so just read them carefully and don’t skim passages - it won’t help- read them carefully for about 5 mins each then be very careful on ur writing and simply Ace maths-780+!!!
My latest collegeboard practice test was 1450
If your goal is 1530 and your highest is 1440, you’ll probably get around a 1440 or lower on the actual test (unless you get really lucky). That being said, you still have a month left. If your writing is what’s bringing you down, get a review book and go over the fundamentals of grammar/writing. If you’ve got solid foundations, then your writing score will improve on its own. However, if you skip foundations and just do practice tests, speaking frankly, I think that’s a waste of practice tests.
If your reading is what’s bringing you down, I would suggest using a review book or Khan Academy and practice getting all the questions right without a time limit. Once you can get all the questions right without a time limit, you’ve more or less gotten accustomed to the pattern, and all you have to do is speed your analysis up. But if you can’t do well on reading in timed tests and continue to do bad on them, find an alternative strategy (forgoing the time limit is an example, but a little risky considering you only have a month left). But if you’re solid on math and get the fundamentals of grammar down, I think you have a good chance of going over 1500 even if your reading analysis is mediocre. If you can’t get the fundamentals of grammar/writing down, I’m not sure if you can reach your goal, because writing is half your score in the reading/writing category. With only one month left, I’d get the fundamentals of grammar down as that’s easiest.