<p>sucks can be defined as : significantly lower than your goal
significantly lower than what you need</p>
<p>but please, a 780 on any section doesn't suck for over 95% of the population, so please, none of that nonsense.</p>
<p>this is for the people who got 2000-, such as 1600's, 1700's. not saying that these are bad scores for everyone, but as someone who falls into that region, they are less than satisfying.</p>
<p>so whats the gameplan for october guys? i sat around and wallowed all day receiving reassurance from parents, boyfriend, and friends that i dont suck at life, just at the SAT's. </p>
<p>i plan on studying a little each day, especially on the weekends. i use PR and CB but i heard barrons was good as well, anyone agree??. think it's possible to improve a score by 500 points?</p>
<p>People have different standards for their SAT scores. A great score for you might be a terrible score for someone else, and a terrible score for you might be a great score for someone else.</p>
<p>I have to say I wasn't content with my SAT scores, and moped about them for a long time (still moping, actually) yet next to me, a girl was talking about how she was very happy with scores that were much lower than mine. That night, I was talking with someone who was griping about how her SAT scores, which were higher than mine, were low and she'd have to retake them.</p>
<p>All of these are valid perspectives. People have different goals, people want to go to different places. The only score that people can't complain about is a perfect one.</p>
<p>And as for your last question, yes, it's very possible to improve a score by 500 points.</p>
<p>just apply to your dream school, whatever it is, even if you don't think your SAT score is at that spot. if its significantly low, like 500 or more points less, take the ACT.</p>
<p>If you don't know the material, then spend your time with prep-books and studying and such. If you DO know the material, just spend your time taking and analyzing practice tests. What I mean by that is: </p>
<p>Take a test and score it, but don't just check the answers...figure out what you did wrong, WHY you didn't get the correct answer, and how to avoid your error on the entire class of problems (say you got a linear equation problem wrong...don't just learn what you need to redo that problem...learn ALL about lines!)</p>
<p>Also, it helps to actually know how the ETS writes their questions. You can learn this by studying practice tests...</p>