Some Advice!

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>Hi everyone!</p>

<p>Lately a lot of my underclassmen at school have been asking how on earth I managed to get my score up from a 2110 to a 2400 in two months, and I decided my advice should be (sort of?) suitable on CC. </p>

<p>So here was my PERSONAL strategy to somehow getting an 2400 (It helped me, might not help you)…</p>

<p>It’s short and easy, but not as easy as it sounds though X3</p>

<li><p>It’s really pointless to just read what the prep books advise over and over again, because frankly, they say just about the same things in each one, and the things that are different are common sense. So read ONE prep book (I loved the Barrons’s 2400 Club. It was SO much help) and don’t touch another one, ever again. </p></li>
<li><p>Do a practice test every two days. On day one, do the FULL practice exam. On day two, read the solutions for the wrong ones AND the right ones. You would have to know why you got something right, so you could get it right again. (Make SURE you do the FULL exam! SAT’s like a marathon. You’d have to run more than one before hand to get used to having your brain slooshed~)</p></li>
<li><p>Make a little chart or something to keep track of the errors you make, so in the end you can make a little conclusion about: “My favorite problems to fail are…” and write up a report for yourself (it really helps.)</p></li>
<li><p>Work really hard on the things in your report; think like your test-maker: which one’s a trick answer, which one’s not, etc. I advise you to keep the wrong problems marked and go back to them in a week and redo them until it gets pounded into your brain like mad sausages O_o</p></li>
<li><p>Grade your prep book. Are the strategies useful? Take a black permanent marker and hit it on with the unuseful (insert profanity) it spurts out, and jot down anything you think would help you.</p></li>
<li><p>Like shampoo, rinse and repeat.</p></li>
<li><p>Oh, and BTW, feel free to talk to yourself about your tendencies for getting right and wrong. It won’t make you schitzo or anything. Just talk outloud to yourself; the more silly you are, the easier it is to remember what you did.</p></li>
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<p>**shorter version: Heck, just practice like you’ve got no tomorrow.
Hope that helps!</p>

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<p>Good stuff...but which practice tests did you take?</p>

<p>I'm feeling really discouraged right now, I'm a senior and I have my last SAT coming up in October...I went out and got myself the Barron's 2009 SAT prep book, and after taking the tests, I realized my CR scores went up but Math dropped ridiculously...</p>

<p>To make it worse, I'm Chinese and all my classmates have near-perfect GPA's and SAT's compared to my lousy GPA/SAT. :(</p>

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<p>Haha, I took:
- Princeton Review
- College Board
- Kaplan
- Barron's
- Anything else I can find anywhere. I even retook my PSAT exams.</p>

<p>I think I took no less than 60 practice exams. </p>

<p>(I'm Asian too! Don't worry too much, aha. The more you fret, the worse it gets~)</p>

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<p>Oh myyy haha 60 practices... its hard to sit down and focus haha especially since its not the legitimate test. I need to find a way to improve my dang math though...</p>

<p>Out of curiosity, do you have the "chan" in your name because you are an anime fan? My friends are all doing the whole "chan" thing.</p>

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<p>I know! I had great trouble focusing as well.</p>

<p>In the end I ended up reserving a room in a library and forcefully locking myself in there (I told my parents to come pick me up in four hours, so I couldn't do anything but the practice exams)</p>

<p>Haha, my first name is Ivy (for real, not after the IvyLeagues, FYI)</p>

<p>And actually I originally chose Chan because Jackie Chan's my favorite actor, and I was talking about him with a friend when I made the account.
But on the other hand, yup, it's also partially for the -chan, -san, -sama deal :3 (but I don't like anime, I like Jrock)</p>

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<p>ahaha...I didn't even know you can reserve rooms in libraries. I don't know much about Jrock lol. Well thanks for the advice...off to go follow it!</p>

<p>:D</p>

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<p>You should totally take my test for me :O [/sarcasm]
Where are you applying?</p>