<p>I'm taking the SAT next month, and I need help developing a study plan for increasing my score significantly. When I took the test in March, I received a 1840. Math was 550, Critical Reading was 610, and Writing was 680. </p>
<p>My biggest concern is the Math section. I don't want to say I'm not good at math, but under the time restraints, I struggle. I do better with SAT math questions when I have a math class, but I do not have Calculus or AP Statistics until next semester. I also do not know how to study math because you can't make flashcards. Any tips for studying the math section would be greatly accepted because I need to raise my math score the most.</p>
<p>I feel like I will do better in critical reading automatically because I took AP English Lang and Spanish Lang last year, and I am currently taking AP English Lit. </p>
<p>I am disappointed in my writing section because I got all the multiple choice questions correct but bombed the essay. I'm pretty sure I narrowed down the topic too far and that is what caused the loss of points there. </p>
<p>I think you are in a great situation, a lot of students have trouble raising their critical reading score, but have ease in bumping up the math score. This is because just taking practice tests will up your scores (i noticed a lot more in the math section). With just taking practice tests (maybe 2 or 3 a week), all of your scores will go up, and significantly with the math section. You’ll be fine! </p>
<p>Why can’t you make flashcards? What my kid did was take practice tests, then review the answers (and how they were reached) for the ones she missed. She made a flash card for each one. (I admit, there was a flash card that said, “Don’t be stupid”, and she just added tally marks to that one when she made a simple addition mistake or something like that, but knew how to solve the problem). If you still don’t understand how they got the answer, mark those with a post-it and ask someone else (parent, friend who is good at math, math teacher) for help on those. Keep doing this… The flashcards she made would show the problem, then how to solve/what concept she had to remember. The example of the problem often helped her a lot. Then before she took each practice test (and the real test), she reviewed her flash cards.</p>
<p>There are also some books by Gruber for SAT Math that are pretty good as well if you want more study books.</p>