<p>k i did sufficiently well on my psats and sats (around 1400 SAT, 219 PSAT) but recently, i have been taking some practice tests, and they have dropped DRAMATICALLY!!</p>
<p>like now i'm getting like straight 600's... NOT ACCEPTABLE</p>
<p>plz help figure out what's going wrong!</p>
<p>lol this is a serious question, have you been smoking weed since then? because i think that could help you short term but it hurts you months later</p>
<p>Seriously, not to be mean, but maybe the first time you got a great score by chance?</p>
<p>there's only one explanation:</p>
<p>you're not concentrating well enough and are making stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>great! you are going through the "hole" stage, and when you climb out of the "hole", you'll do really well, and you'll never climb out of it until like right before the test</p>
<p>bump.............</p>
<p>hahaha smokin the reefer (in reference to captain acid). my friend took the psat stoned. she's crazy! she actually missed national merit by 2 pts. </p>
<p>but yeah just look over the problems you got wrong, maybe there's a trend.. and then keep taking practice tests. it's probably little mistakes anyways. i've never heard of a hole theory about the SAT's though.. interesante</p>
<p>I've heard a variation of the hole theory from my prep book. It said that if your practice test scores are very stable and unchanging, then there is improvement right around the corner. Then again, if you carefully read that statment, you should be improving most of the time, a dubious observation.</p>
<p>wow that is crazy elusive stranger. yea, its prolly stupid mistakes camp. my SAT scores range from 1470-1600 just by that factor</p>
<p>yeh ive been having the same problem, i got a 710 verbal psat, never been able to get that again, my ranges from the real book, on my best test, was like 640-710, usually i get like 10 wrong EVERY time. though math does seem equal with about 6 wrong, which is like high 600s low 700, (i got 700 on psat), then writing seems good to, only 5-7 wrong consistently (750 psat), so nm i guess its just the verbal. I dunno what i did that day but i sure hope i have the same luck on march 12th.</p>
<p>yeah i know, it is crazy. but some of the smartest people i know are the biggest druggies. they pull of 1600 SATS (well i guess itll be somewhere around 2200 now).</p>
<p>omg, the exact same thing happened to me. I had good scores on my early psats, but my scores dramatically starting going down to the 600s after a brief "relaxation" period. I think that this happens when you don't practice, and you actually start losing the information that you have learned. This was especially the case with the mathematics SAT portion where my scores went down almost a 100 points. However, I think that if you do start vigorously relearning the information, then your scores should go back up again. try buying an SAT workbook. those are always helpful</p>
<p>... good advice y'all, thanks!</p>
<p>and on the earlier ones, i don't smoke reefer or anythin bad like that... LoL</p>
<p>ooh, btw, Barrons SAT mathematics workbook is excellent. thier verbal workbook is also great.</p>
<p>ilovetocamp...that's pretty unusual, since for most students there is a dramatic increase from PSAT scores. Try Collegeboard's official study guide for the New SAT, take the practice tests under timed conditions (preferably at 8:30 AM on weekends to simulate the setting you'll have on test day). Then, figure out which questions you've repeatedly been getting wrong, and focus on those the most. Keep up with this routine, with NO RELAXATION PERIODS! Also, make sure to have had ample sleep and a good breakfast before you take the test, and I'm sure you'll do fine--this does have a considerable effect on test performance. Congrats on the 219 PSAT, btw.--I think that will probably qualify you for National Merit Scholar, but I'm not sure...</p>