<p>I'm a high school freshman who recently invested three annoying hours to take the online pSAT. </p>
<p>Reading: 590
Writing: 610 (MC: 54 Essay: 6 (only one reader)/6)
Math: 470 yeah I don't know how I'm Asian either....</p>
<p>My classes have given me literally no information about the SATs (I go to a college prep public school, so I don't have AVID or pre-IB or any of that) and I only took it out of curiosity, but my score alarmed me. </p>
<p>I seriously have no idea where to start for improving. If you guys can offer any tips or route suggestions (like...any at all, seriously, I'd be better off than where I am now TTOTT), I'd be really grateful! Much thanks. c:</p>
<p>I’m guessing that you mean an SAT, given that you have an essay score.</p>
<p>If you’re a freshman, then don’t worry about the SAT until the summer before junior year at the earliest. Seriously. Don’t. Worry. About it. The next several years of high school will allow you to gain several hundred points without actually having to dedicate yourself to the SAT. Odds are, you haven’t learned many of the math concepts yet. So just chill out and wait.</p>
<p>I completely agree with cheerioswithmilk.</p>
<p>I took a practice sat on collegeboard online.
I’m so relieved then. Yeah, I sort of dove into it headfirst because I was bored. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Don’t worry. My scores are really bad too…I would say English is my weakest subject.</p>
<p>Reading:54
Writing: 59
Math: 68 (some dumb mistakes)
Total=181</p>
<p>I’m trying to get started on memorizing the vocabulary.</p>
<p>Lol…what math level are you in at school? SAT Math has Algebra and Geometry and tricky stuff like probability and functions. Have you learned that in school yet?</p>
<p>That said, you may have made careless mistakes too…not because you weren’t paying attention, but because the SAT test writers used their psychological knowledge to play you! For example, they make it so that in order to solve a problem you have to figure out the perimeter. You get so invested in solving for perimeter and finally get it. Your perimter answer is correct even. So you circle that choice. Dun dun dun…turns out the question is asking for area, not perimeter.</p>
<p>Or you solved for x like you always do at school. Turns out they wanna know xy or y or 2x. Or you might have mixed up doubling with halving with squaring with square rooting. Or radius with diameter. There are tons of dumb traps like this on the SAT. You have to learn to anticipate those traps, not just tell yourself “be more careful.”</p>