Hey y’all!
I’m new here, so hopefully this is an OK place to post this.
Anyway, there’s probably a ton of posts like this, but I’m going to make another one anyway because I’m sooooo disappointed in and frustrated at my SAT math score. I got 540.
This is my second time taking the SAT. The first time, I didn’t really study (but I did well in all my classes so my scores weren’t atrocious). So I was thinking if I actually studied, I’d do awesome and really improve my math score. And my practice went great! I took a few months to study and went over carefully all the things I didn’t really understand in my classes, and did really well on the practice tests and almost always got the correct answers to my practice problems.
I got 20 points lower than my previous score! Oh my gosh y’all—I’m so, so mad! I don’t have test anxiety, I went into the SAT nervous but fairly confident. Ughhhhhhh!! The other thing that makes me so upset it that I feel I understand all–or at least most-- of the concepts, I just don’t do the problems fast enough. When I go fast, I tend to make careless errors. I hate that they take off points for the wrong answers --__–
The weird thing is that my critical reading score went way up–from 610-720, which I was thrilled about. I didn’t study for that part of the test at all save the fact I’m an over-analytical bookworm and I read a ton.
My writing score also went up, which is good but it doesn’t count toward the scholarship I want.
Me too, I got a 680 in math but I felt confident that I got at least a 700… And my brother took it and he thought he got a perfect score but he got a 710 leading me to believe that the test may have had a terrible curve. I only thought I got 3 wrong, but like you I tend to make careless errors so maybe that’s what brought me down, ugh. My math teacher says she literally cringes while she grades my tests because I write things like 3*2=8 :))
Anyway, I’m sorry you didn’t get what you wanted and I know how you feel 
Lol it’s sooooo frustrating right?? Good job on your score though, that’s good! I’m thinking about retaking it and just focusing on math and not doing the other parts, since the college I want to go to will superscore (I think it will anyway, I’ll check first)
Anyway, I wonder if that would that be weird? Like just sitting there while everyone else is working? lol. But I feel like it would save me from stressing out so I could focus better on the math sections.
Don’t “not do” CR and WR, but focus all prep on timed math practice. If you have done all the Blue Biok studying and practice tests, the Gruber books are good for math prep.
I definitely understand. In the October SAT, I only scored a 670 in the math section. I’m particularly embarrassed about this because my friends and teachers call me “the Queen of the Math Department” and here I was, not even hitting the 700 mark! Don’t feel discouraged. What I plan to do is increase my speed, so that I can have some time to check my work at the end. Good luck on increasing your scores!