Thoughts on SAT study schedule for 2400

Test Preparation
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<p>I checked a SAT vocabulary book, grammar book ( not published by college board) and Barron's guide to 2400 year 2010
My Plan is thus far</p>

<p>1) 5 Words a day, 35 words a week, approx 350 words over the summer
2) Review the 10-15 hard level math questions
3) Practice 20 grammar questions per day
4) Practice 15-20 critical reading section
6) SAT Problem of the day ( on collegeboard website)
7) Review wrong problems
PSAT score ( from about 5 days ago)
CR: 610
M: 690
W: 530</p>

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<li>My writing is lower than the others because I have never had grammar before besides the occasional one day lessons on verb usage, tense etc. But nothing ever mentioned prepositions, clauses, etc before last year. So Im pretty much self teaching myself grammar</li>
<li>For the critical reading my problem is a) vocab and b) the passage reading. I enjoy reading but the passages are so insipid and boring and attempt to spice it up with word usage. There was a story (about 120 lines) about architecture of a museum ( A MUSEUM!)
and then when they say compare lines 7-8 passage 1 and line 67-70 passage 2 not having them right in front of me is a bit difficult.
btw, Ultimately i have 10 and half months to take the SAT but i wanted to take in about 6 months . I wanted to get the point where I could get a 2400 any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!</li>
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<p>Good luck with self-teaching yourself grammar. The writing isn’t really that hard. Parallelism is obvious, remember to ignore the prepositional phrases after you get to know them when looking at subject-verb agreements, difference between “lie” and “lay,” etc…if you have that much time to prepare and go over everything, you’ll probably get it all down.</p>

<p>One thing though. Unlike the PSAT, the SAT includes an essay, which I’m sure you know. Don’t forget to practice writing essays as well. If you get everything right on the MC part of Writing, you can probably get away with an 8, but if you get a 10 or higher, you get more leeway for the MC section.</p>

<p>As for reading…the passages are just picked out of prose that has already been written. They do not attempt to spice it up with word usage. They just put it in there. Half the stuff you’ll be reading (actually, all the stuff you’ll be reading) in high school was not meant for high school students. It’s not like any of them wondered while they writing, “I wonder if this will be appropriate for high school students?” The purpose of the CR is to analyze, so I hope you’ll be able to get over how “boring” the CR is.</p>

<p>For the CR, you might want to increase to ten words a day. Maybe. It’s not like I memorized even half the amount you would memorize that way, and personally I don’t think that the vocabulary is that important. Then again, I wasn’t aiming for perfect score.</p>

<p>Math is probably the easiest section. Just watch out for stupid mistakes. One stupid mistake cost me my perfect math score.</p>

<p>You might want to consider taking a lot of practice tests as well. As in, practice tests in a single sitting so that you can get a feel of what the SAT is really like. Four hours of testing can really wear one down.</p>

<p>Just saying, I didn’t get anything close to a 2400. I did score over 2000, but that’s all I’ll say. But if you do all that, you just might get a 2400. And if not a 2400, at least you’ll get a very good score.</p>

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<p>you should do more than 5 words a day…just saying</p>

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<p>One thing I noticed when I took the SAT was that with the writing/grammar section, most of it is subject/verb or subject/adjective, etc. agreement as well as if the tenses are correct. So even the ones that seem hard aren’t really that hard. One strategy I read was to make a line across the unnecessary parts they give you, this makes it easier for the subject/verb etc. agreements</p>

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<p>Try more than 5 words a day like others said. Personally I crammed 3000 words 3 days before the test.
Here’s my personal break up of the test:
Writing: Very easy to master once you get grammar. They will recycle a certain number of traps every test. If you can recognize them, you’re set. It also helps to speak English, even conversationally, with perfect grammar. <– This helped me alot since I could sound it out in my head. (This advice is actually unorthodox, people say not to sound it out) The essay was where I struggled, had to take some writing lessons as I am a horrible writer.</p>

<p>Math: Probably a breeze if you took up to Alg II and you did well in the courses. Just make sure to double check. The curve is terrible due to so many perfect scores. </p>

<p>CR:
Your problems in this section are near identical to my problems in this section. Everyone seems to have their own favorite “type” of passage. Personally, if the passage is a narrative or something science-y, then I tend to breeze through it and am easily able to get the questions. Then there are passages that literally feel to me as if Collegeboard took the time to pick out the most terribly boring passages ever. Passages concerning literature or history will almost always make me lose focus. Often I find my self reading the same line over and over. The first time I took the SAT I made this mistake and found myself without time to double check. What I’ve learned is that for CR, if you’re not naturally gifted at such comprehension, the only thing you can do is FOCUS LIKE A COW CHEWING ITS OWN CUD. No, I have no idea if cows focus on their cud, but thats besides the point. Really all you can do is practice and practice some more. Then on test day, force yourself to focus ALOT. The second time I took it, during CR I could have literally burned a hole in my test I was glaring so hard.</p>

<p>This was my philosophy at least for CR at it led me to a satisfactory score of 770 up from a 670 my first time.</p>

<p>Either way, I wish you the absolute best of luck.</p>

<p>Note: Don’t aim for a 2400, its really really hard. Start with passing 2000+, then 2100+, then 2200+, then 2300+ and if you can consistently get above 2300, then on the actual test maybe you’ll hit that perfect score.</p>

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<p>Given your PSAT score, I think it is impossible for you to score a 2400. The SAT is structured such that excessive cramming will not result in a perfect score. It tests reasoning, not memorization. I’m sorry.</p>

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<p>If you want a 2400, you need to be doing a lot more than what you listed in your post.</p>