<p>I think the problem is that we’re mostly self-taught/tactic-less.</p>
<p>For most high scorers, it’s simply a matter of taking practice tests. All we’d really be able to offer is telling you to sit down and take some practice tests.</p>
<p>^agreed, i don’t think ANY tutor, no matter how good, can teach you that</p>
<p>I just need someone really good at grammar and its idiosyncrasies.</p>
<p>Nice thread. This happened to me in Math. (-1) potentially more. ugh.</p>
<p>Another thing is that I wish I had actually mentally prepared myself for the test and sat through a practice test 3 hours straight, instead of practicing individual sections. I bombed Section 10 because of this. blegh.</p>
<p>If it was incompetency, I would have been fine. But mental barriers? This is why I suck at test-taking in general.</p>
<p>same. i need a tutor/someone who can tell me how to do every SAT writing question. then drill it into me with some examples of the ahrdest SAT writing q’s.</p>
<p>someone whose been there, done that would be great</p>
<p>what helped me with the mental aspect is that during the 2 weeks before the sat, i did hours of practice EVERY NIGHT which got me used to having to focus for hours on end</p>
<p>@ViggyRam: Just post any questions you have on CC! We’d be happy to explain.</p>
<p>^^ I did that too. Except maybe the fact that I had two Math sections in row, made my brain turn-off and relax a bit too much. Oh the woes of overconfidence, or something like that. Why am I so mentally weak. lol.</p>
<p>ugh, 2 maths in a row, horrible. i mean, i’m good at math, but having to do it in a row wouldn’t be good for my nerves lol. luckily my experimental section was a writing</p>
<p>Yeah, I got 2 maths in a row as well. Thankfully, I kind of liked it. Math, while not necessarily my strong section, always seems to relax me. Its just simpler, with less ambiguity and stressful doubt.</p>
<p>Having a math experimental is the best luck one could possibly have as an SAT taker in my opinion.</p>
<p>why? math isn’t my strongest so i know that i would fret over which one was the experimental and whether i did better on the experimental rather the actual one</p>
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same here.</p>
<p>Yea, I was extremely happy at first. SAT Math is ridiculously easy. Except that I wasn’t in my SAT intense-focus mode for so long. Screws me over in my weaker sections. Argh.</p>
<p>Always do this. Hate it.</p>
<p>I like the really hard math sections because I’ll still make a dumb mistake, but because of the curve I would still get an 800.</p>
<p>^agreed. harder math q’s make me focus more = better score. the ones that seem ‘too easy’ are the ones i score lowest on. that hardest ones i score best on.</p>
<p>I literally freak out during math sections because I never get enough time so I rush through them = bunch of stupid errors. I set my calculator time during the sat and i checked it every minute to see how well i was managing the time. I think that just wasted time though…</p>
<p>Going through my PSAT, my math score was brought down from an 80 to a 75 because 1) For some strange reason, 8 divided by 2 = 2 and 2) I mixed up left and right. I hate stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>^ i mix up east and west all the time during physics tests. i always get near the end of a problem, then i’m like “no! it says N30E not N30W!”…then i scramble to finish</p>