Studying to raise SAT score

<p>I will be taking the SAT in october, and my goal is 2200. My SAT score right is 1770. I know its low, but I will study a lot over the summer. Do you think practicing a lot will help raise my score. I have been prepping for a little over a year, and my score is still low. My planned schedule for studying for SAT:
9:00-12:00- SAT Practice Tests
1:00-5:00- SAT Practice Tests
7:00-10:00- SAT Practice Tests</p>

<p>All of it is doing practice tests. Do you think this is good enough to raise my score at least 500 points? My goal over the summer is to do all the practice tests in the College Board, Kaplan, and the Barrons book. Thank you!</p>

<p>Anyone?? I’ve been waiting, but nobody is replying…</p>

<p>Practice tests are definitely good. However, don’t just randomly do problems. Take the full math section of an SAT, and find out which math subject gives you the most problem. Then focus on that and review the basics of that subject.</p>

<p>unless you are a super genius, I do not believe just taking practice tests will raise you by 400-500 points. It certainly does help but the best way to improve is to study specific methods for certain areas. For math, I studied commonly used topics and memorized certain formulas that would make my test taking faster and more efficient. For reading, I memorized thousands of flashcards just for the vocab. I didn’t study at all for the reading comprehension since I’m already good at it so I don’t know how you would go about doing that. For writing, memorize and learn grammar rules… very simple. And for the essay, try to study on a few topics and look up commonly asked questions (a lot of them you can write the same things for) for example they often ask about courage in adversity and you can talk about schindler or anne frank or something etc. doesn’t have to be deep or anything, just pump out as much as you can an connect everything well</p>

<p>To be honest I’m interested to see whether this would work. I just don’t think there are enough practice tests in the world. Also you’d definitely have to be checking the tests directly after. To tell you the truth though, I don’t think it would.</p>

<p>A 1770 is above average, so we’re not dealing with a dimwit who doesn’t understand the logistics of studying here. I went from about a 2200 to a 2340 the summer between my sop. year and this, my junior year and I didn’t spend all my time studying really. I’d take a test once in a while and always take as much time as I needed to go over my answers, right and wrong. Truthfully, I didn’t become any better at the idividual sections (CR is still my worst at 740). I just became better at not making dumb mistakes on all the sections. I ended up getting 800s on W and M because I truly am a stronger thinker in those areas than I am in CR. The point is that you may have a limit in aptitude of each area. Now don’t think because my gains weren’t as much as you want that you can’t still get what you want. I mean think about it. I had a lot less to gain than you do.</p>

<p>But basically my advice is to read for Critical Reading. Like even online articles (wikipedia) suffice. You’ll learn words and if you’re interested in the topics you’ll realize just how capable you are of pulling information out of the passages.</p>

<p>For Math you really just need to practice and practice and practice. Now of course if you don’t know certain rules like that two sides of a triangle can not add up to less than the longest side, or that all the adjacent angles together about both sides of a line add up to 360 degrees (this one is hard to illustrate in words); well if this is the case then you need to learn them! But therwise a lot of the problems involve what I call organization of facts, otherwise known as Logic.</p>

<p>And for Writing, once again, reading articles and books is helpful. But basically practicing this on the practice test and then searching onthe internet the rules that apply to the questions you got wrong will work wonders for your score. Also you may want to learn common adjectives’ prepositions (i.e. consistent WITH, enamored OF). The rest is just subject-verb agreement clarification types of things like, “no one…is”, “neither…is”. What they really love doing is confusing you with a sentence like “Many things a man does IS/ARE important”. You just have to remember what the author refers to with the adjectve, in this case, “Many things”, so the answer is ARE because “many things are important”.
-----But I could go all day on this stuff.</p>

<p>Good luck getting as high of a score as you can.</p>

<p>Doing practice tests repeatedly won’t help. Doing A practice test and then reviewing each question you got wrong carefully will help.</p>