<p>Obviously, checking questions is the best, but yeah, you might not always have time. </p>
<p>Sometimes I like to underline key parts of the question. This is especially useful for math, when they might ask you for 2x instead of x or something.</p>
<p>For misbubbling make sure you circle the answers in your test booklet and just at the end make sure they all match.</p>
<p>Also on the math section go quickly through taking hopefully around fifteen minutes. Then go back and carefully read the directions and check your answers ie. plug-in, calculator, etc.</p>
<p>Start by checking the hard problems near the end and work your way towards the beginning that way if you run out of time you will have checked the more mistake prone questions.</p>
<p>go slower, that way you’ll have less time at the end to check. the way i take the SAT (i’m in the 2300-2400 range btw, 10th grade), i try to get it right THE FIRST time, even if it means spending slightly more time on each question. that way, i know that the ones that i DO complete are definitely right :D</p>
<p>4.0: good suggestion, but what I’ve actually found is that I get the easiest questions wrong more often.</p>
<p>Ice: I have actually been pretty sure of my answers. It’s mostly that I just end up marking the wrong bubble. I’m going to slow down some though, just to make sure I fill the right bubble. :P</p>
<p>honestly, slow down. when you start breezing through every single question with ease, your brain gets careless because you get confident and you lose focus. You just breeze through one question after another and you want to get to the next question and destroy it quickly and thus you often mis-circle. It’s natural, part of your body’s stimulus to not waste resources on relatively easy tasks. You need to play your brain and continue and focus. Go slower, naturally when you go slower you get in the thinking that it’s not as easy as it is. I normally go at a regular pace as the difficulty of the questions, and while i finish with 10 mins in the 25 min and 8 mins in the 20 min section, after each question I do a check. Seeing it’s math there are always at least two different blatant ways to do it and check (especially on multiple choice) Plug in and chug and then straight algebra. While when i first started taking SATs i’d have 4-5 easy misreads on math section. Now it’s all down to me knowing the stuff and seeing it’s SAT math… i usually do =]
Writing is same thing… go relatively slow, go through ALL the choices, i like to do one read before forming any answers. Although even on the easy difficulty ones where the first read gives the blatant answer i’d still go through it and read it again. Reading comprehension on the other hand I’m not sure what to say. Since sentence completions are kind of the only thing you can go careless, but i’m not sure if you’ll have the time to waste on the SC. If you’re fast on the passages then go for it.</p>
<p>I agree with Mde’s advice on the math section; for me, slower is better. Others do better racing through and then checking several times, so I would experiment with both ways and see what works for you.</p>
<p>What ultimately solved my problem with errors in math was doing the sections in reverse, starting with the last one and working back to the first. I felt way less pressure on the harder problems because I had so much time left, allowing me to think more clearly. My brain is also fresher at the beginning of a math section than at the end. And if there was a problem that stumped me, I could always make up for lost time later by hurrying a bit on the easy ones.</p>
<p>I’ve read that it’s better to bubble in several answers at once rather than 1 at a time. What do you guys do? (Personally, I’ve always done one at a time, but I wasn’t sure if waiting and do more at once actually saves time)</p>
<p>I usually bubble by “sections.” In math, I bubble after each page, meaning usually four problems at a time. In CR, I bubble all the SC at once, all the short passages at once, and then all the questions for each long passage at once when I finish the passage. In writing I usually stop to bubble twice a page. Of course, if I’m running out of time I bubble each question individually.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. There were only a few questions on the test that I wasn’t sure of and I scored a 2060, mainly missing easy and medium questions… Hopefully these tips will help me this time around.</p>