<p>Here's my question: A lot of people seem to "self-study" for the SAT with prep books such as the BlueBook etc... But I'm not the type of person who can just sit in my desk and start working. How do you guys go about studying? Do you guys just sit down and start reading through the book? or do you guys have some kind of strategy or motivation that allows you to voluntarily sit down and study by yourself?? For me, I would need a tutor or something to make me study...otherwise I would NEVER be able to sit down and study on my own will.</p>
<p>Um, yeah. I just read through the techniques pages, take notes on the things I'm not familiar with, then do the practice questions.</p>
<p>Motivation would be...college? Just looking over the questions got me pumped. :P</p>
<p>My motivation came from my dad saying that if I'm above 92 percentile, he'll buy me a laptop. :P</p>
<p>Here's the motivation. Picture some old, bitter SAT question maker who failed at everything in life, and is now doing his best to keep you OUT of college. You want to beat this wrinkled ******* at his own game and get yourself into college despite his best efforts. It's a game, you analyze each question, and beat the examiner by seeing his traps and avoiding them. You are rewarded because you know your good score will come as a slap in the face to him, and you savor that moment when you will look over your computer, and see your high number, and know you, with x hours of practice, have beaten the system, have raged against the machine set up for you to lose, and have succeeded in one part of getting into college. Basically, turn it into a game like chess. You look at each scenario, figure out what the opponent is doing, and beat him. It can even be fun. Sort of. Not at all.</p>
<p>^ I like it. :)</p>
<p>hahaha,,,thanks for the motivation</p>
<p>I also have to find motivation to study for my AP Biology test. One of my friend eats apples as he studies and he says it worked for him. Never tried it thought but it couldn't hurt.</p>