<p>What were you doing when you were a sophmore, studying for SAT's, reading, preparing for SAT II's ?</p>
<p>Um. I was having fun with high school before it got insane.</p>
<p>when i was a sophomore i had fun with my ECs and friends. i tried to get good grades but I don't think i even knew what sat II's were back then.</p>
<p>I'm a sophmore and I'm just focusing on AP classes right now...not much thought on SAT's though maybe I should... not sure</p>
<p>I had only just found out what APs were and was taking two of them, my parents were always telling me to get my SATs and ACTs done, but I didn't feel like taking them or preparing for them, and none of us had any idea what SAT Subject Tests were.</p>
<p>i was getting my ass kicked by honors chem. focus on school and your grades. believe me, theres far too much time to stress out about sats. i took them november of my junior year cold and ended up with around a 2080, studied for a year and managed to bring them up only by abour 50 points. studying can help, but youre going to get the score you get and, when you look back, youre going to wish you had spent more time thinking about high school and less time thinking about college.</p>
<p>I'm gonna say look at your PSAT, notice and understand your weaknesses on the PSAT and put it away. Focus on your grades. Towards the end of the year/during the summer buy the blue book and do another practice test to see how you stand. I think you should start studying for the SAT in earnest the middle of your junior year, and take it for real the first time in the late winter/early spring of junior year. Spend the rest of soph year and most of junior year focusing on grades.</p>
<p>But that's just my take.</p>
<p>I only took the PSATs in Sophomore year.</p>
<p>I took Honors classes, such as Honors Chem, and AP Music Theory.</p>
<p>If you're a Sophomore, look at your PSAT scores and try to find places you can improve. Take a practice ACT from a prep book and then use a conversion chart to compare the PSAT score to your ACT score.</p>
<p>I wouldn't start worrying about SATs until junior year- start them then.</p>
<p>I took Dec. SATs, didn't do well, then took June and did very well. My regret is that I didn't do SAT IIs at all in my junior year. If I did it again I would do December and May SATs, then June SAT IIs. </p>
<p>I avoided May because the date is RIGHT in the middle of the most stressful part of my year- big performance plus AP tests. </p>
<p>Don't take SATs until you have a full year of geometry. Also, the more vocab (if you do vocab out of those orange books in your English class), the better. </p>
<p>And taking practice tests is the best way to study! Those and the SAT word flashcards.</p>
<p>mm, ECs and getting good grades in honors and 1 ap. im in the midst of my junior year, and i dont think it hurt me terribly that i didnt begin prepping for the SAT until this fall - im taking them in january, and then hopefully never again, but if it has to be, i still have plenty of time. i took my PSATS sophomore and junior year and didnt bomb them, though, so i think that pacified worries about having to go to the local community college.</p>
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same here. i did nothing in terms of school. my school doesn't offer AP classes to sophomores so i just skated, had a girlfriend, hung out on weekends, mixed music, and had fun in preparation of a tough junior year.</p>
<p>use sophomore year to get good at hobbies and develop your uniqueness. join clubs, try something new, etc. i picked up mixing music sophomore and it's one of my favorite hobbies now.</p>
<p>I only knew about colleges in my sophomore year because the summer before we went visiting schools with my brother, who was a senior. Back then, all my grades and activities and everything were for me. It was really mid-to-late junior year that I started thinking, in a limited fashion (visited two schools, UPenn and Haverford... not applying to either), about college, and I realized that I'd done pretty damn well and that I was somewhat competitive. One thing I highly, highly suggest to any sophomore reading this is: get off CC. Really, stay away from CC. I started reading CC at the start of my senior year, and while it's helped me immensely, it's also made me very, very, very nervous. Come back mid junior year, perhaps, or a bit later. You shouldn't be worrying about this right now. Just do your best in school.</p>
<p>I really didn't care about stats or anything, and I certainly didn't even think about the SAT until I took it cold in November of my junior year. Got a 2060, but then I took a class, took it again in March, and got 2280. And SAT IIs, I just took those all in one fell swoop at the end of junior year (June), just chose subjects I'd been studying that year, didn't study at all, did alright.</p>
<p>Don't live your life in high school like it's one big competition to get into college. Chill out, enjoy high school for what it is, enjoy your friends and activities.</p>
<p>Sophomore year was the besssst. It was the year I got to take part in all the ECs that interested me, I started teaching myself bass [guitar] just 'cause I always wanted to, and I never had to compromise my classwork for some other commitment. I was taking one AP (the way my school's core schedule works, there were very, very few of us taking AP sophomore year) and raising my grades, but I was also expanding my social comfort and enjoying high school.</p>
<p>At risk of sounding clich</p>
<p>I was having fun, not even knowing anything about colleges.</p>
<p>Sophomore year at my school is just as hard as junior year if not harder.
I was not enjoying high school.</p>
<p>absolutely nothing?
I think SAT prep is stupid. completely ruins the point of the test.
of course I'd end up getting hurt in the end by following this belief because at my school everyone gets private tutors and crap.
my mom made me take a 4 week class or something. total waste of time. didn't help at all.
I did really well on CR/W on my PSATS but got a 68 on Math so my mom wants me to get a math tutor.
idk =/
I'll probably end up being forced to</p>
<p>there's a girl at my school who had been tutored for a couple of months and got a 225 on her PSAT and still goes to a private tutor for SATs because she thinks its not good enough. </p>
<p>I hate the fact that good scores can be bought. the whole point of the SAT was that it would put everyone on a level playing field despite variations in GPAs/teachers and actually look at reasoning skills.</p>
<p>light homework. sleep at 11-12pm. good days.</p>
<p>The SAT's hadn't crossed my mind. I doubt I even knew what SAT II's were. Umm my school made all the sophomores take PLAN...I was more concerned with applying to boarding school that year than I was about college.</p>
<p>I know I was NOT thinking about college. :) I was in a new school, so I was thinking about making some new friends.</p>
<p>working hard in school
and then fun.</p>
<p>sat2 chem too though LOL.</p>