<p>For those people how did you manage to get all the questions on a section right ? It seems like a very duanting task, but share your wisodm!</p>
<p>tips-advice-any info</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>All I can do is stress the importance of checking your answers. Unlike the ACT, where time is more of an issue, each section of the SAT usually leaves you with a few minutes of down time. If you finish before time is called, double-check your answers to make sure you haven't made pointless mistakes due to misreading the question or a calculation error.</p>
<p>^I'm gonna have to disagree with that advice.</p>
<p>Especially with math, checking your answers at the end of a section is a bad idea. Do each problem carefully, so that you don't make any careless mistakes in the first place, because you're NOT going to the catch them if you go back to check your work after completing all of the questions. </p>
<p>For math, you don't need to double check every calculation, but do each calculation carefully, especially the last few. Then, after you have your answer, reread the last line of the question to make sure you solved for the right thing. You may have figured out that x = 238161481, but if the question was asking for half of x, then all your work was for nothing. </p>
<p>For the English sections, checking your work at the end of a section has a slightly higher chance of success, but, again, if you have time to check your work, then you went too fast. And what is checking your work other than doing a problem really fast, i.e. rushing? You can't fix rushing with rushing. Don't rush.</p>
<p>Don't think of getting an 800 as getting 65 CR questions right or 54 math questions right or 47-49 WR questions right. Think of it as getting 1 question right that you know how to solve 169 times.</p>
<p>for Writing, read the questions under your breath.
it helped me catch many writing errors I would otherwise miss.</p>
<p>The optimal strategy depends on how quickly you can work, how effective you are at checking your answers, etc. I generally finished a section in half the allotted time and then went back through the problems, paying close attention to the most difficult questions. This technique served me well enough since I only had to revise two incorrect responses. However, if you typically commit a significant amount of errors, it might be more prudent to work methodically once rather than checking several times.</p>
<p>Nice info, anyomore ?</p>
<p>Luck, to a certain degree.</p>
<p>^^ very true...seems like the main reason why a lot of people fall short of an 800 on a section is because of careless mistakes...you more than likely know all the material very well if you score over 700 regularly.</p>
<p>Luck is a big factor.</p>
<p>It's pretty much luck if you're already in that range. Just be sure to be very, very careful and avoid careless mistakes...</p>
<p>I think you have to have a lot of luck. There are some math problems that you are just going to understand better than others. And sometimes you will just not know that one little trick in the english language that makes an error in a sentence.</p>
<p>As someone with 2 780s, I have to say that it is incredibly frustrating.</p>
<p>CR 800 on March test - missed one question. You don't have to be perfect - just really good :)</p>
<p>M 770 on March test - missed one again, but an 800 was elusive on this section.</p>
<p>W 800 on May test - 80 on multiple choice and only a 9 on the essay. Again - not perfection, at least not on the essay part.</p>
<p>Heard that CR (and W) sometimes allows a perfect score with one or two missed answers - math seldom. Anyway, it was true for the March SAT.</p>
<p>Would agree with the luck comment. Wanted to improve my W (700 in March) and did (800 in May), but never, ever expected a perfect score.</p>
<p>I scored 800 on the CR, in October 2007, and missed one question.</p>
<p>You don't have to get all the answers correct to be "pefect."</p>
<p>lol he misspelled perfect, i love it.</p>
<p>not making fun, everybody makes mistakes, it is just the timing that makes it ironic :)</p>
<p>Maybe he did on purpose since it's in quotes?</p>
<p>My friend who sits in front of me in AP english made a 2400. I asked him how he did it and he said "I DUNNO DURDURDURUD!1!1!!ONEOEN!!" He was on the news and all that, he doesn't care about it.</p>
<p>God...seriously, i missed an 800 on math on the may SAT because I didn't read the intercepts question and I found the slope of one of the lines, but not the B. Seriously, *** man</p>
<p>I got an 800 on the writing section with a breakdown of 77 on the MC and 11 on the essay. I was lucky because I really liked the essay prompt. I also got an 800 on the critical reading section with two or three wrong. You really don't have to be perfect. Anything over a 700 is pretty much in that range. It's good to have high goals, but don't worry about the 800 too much. :)</p>
<p>That said, I read and write heavily and I didn't do a whole lot of practice for those two sections. Try to think of your score as measure (albeit a somewhat unreliable one) of what you already know, instead of a number to steal in the college admissions rat race. </p>
<p>For example, while most colleges do not seem to look at the writing section heavily (ie. the essay), do try to do well on the multiple choice part, because it tests you on basic grammar that you need to know for effective communication anyway.</p>
<p>I scored 800 in Math with 1 difficult question (not multiple-choice) wrong.
you don't have to be perfect on math section either</p>
<p>^^^
Varies from test to test. Only missed one in M on March SAT and lost thirty points - 770. :(</p>
<p>The math curve is harsh. :(<br>
I hope it will be nice to me when I retake.</p>
<p>Speaking of, before I took the SAT the first time I was getting 0-3 wrong on the math section on practice tests, but on the real test got 8 (!) wrong. I was really nervous, even though there was no reason for me to be nervous. That was probably why I messed up... Has anyone experienced something similar? Thought you knew a section well but bombed it on the real test?</p>