<p>Alright so I gotten my score back and I did bad as expected, scoring a 1450. (400s on Critical Reading/Writing and a 600 on Math) I am now serious and am going to devote my summer to studying for it so that I can retake it next year (senior year). I plan on buying "The Official SAT Study Guide 2nd Edition" from the makers of the test (Collegeboard) and was wondering if it is a good book. Also, is 3 months worth of dedication (about 3-4 hours a day) enough to at least get me a score of 1900-2000? I realize how badly I want to get it over with so that it is something I won't have to focus on heavily next year. Thanks for the tips!</p>
<p>How do you fare in your classes? Do you not study and do well or struggle in the class?</p>
<p>Either way you still have to study. I think studying for 3 months 3-4 hours a day is unrealistic and you will probably lose motivation quickly. Math simply learn all the problems, quite simple. Go through all the books and when there’s a problem you don’t know how to do then solve it. For critical reading memorize vocab and do practice tests and make sure to remember that the answer is always supported by the text. For writing learn the grammar rules or if you are a grammar freak then it should just sound right. The essay research examples or just trust your writing skills. The latter worked for me on saturday but I got lucky on the prompt and I’m definitely not leaving it to luck for October.</p>
<p>I would suggest the following</p>
<p>Take a practice test from the Blue book each weekend, look over your answers afterward to make sure you understand why you got questions wrong</p>
<p>Get a math book, a grammar book (or an online grammar review), and a vocabulary book (Direct Hits is excellent) and make sure you learn all the math concepts and grammar concepts you need</p>
<p>Practice your writing and research some examples</p>
<p>Critical reading is mainly practice, but different books and different links on this site have different skills to use, you can try a couple different ones and see what works for you. Maybe try to get a book for critical reading, I’ve heard Rocket Review is really good for CR</p>
<p>3-4 hours a day is honestly unrealistic. I think about 4-5 hours during the week and a test each weekend is much more realistic and should be enough to improve your score significantly</p>
<p>@ray, 4-5 hours ONCE in the week or everyday?</p>
<p>Let hope and try togerther. I want to break 2000 in october too.</p>
<p>i suggest a practice test every two to three days. </p>
<p>my score raised from 1980 (CR:620 M:650 W:710) to 2250 (CR:700 M:790 W:760) with this schedule. im pretty confident that i got a score in the 2300s for the june test. </p>
<p>as important as it is to take as many practice tests as you can, its equally important to go over the answers you got wrong until you are so confident with why the answer is wrong and why the correct answer is correct. I studied with groups so we usually discussed the difficult questions, which reallllllllllllllly helped all of us essentially understand why a certain answer is correct and why others are wrong. study groups help alot only if you are really going to reallly study.</p>
<p>I am the same way too, my parents want to make me work all day every day of the summer, to study. Like literally wake up at 8, sleep at 11, with all of that I get only around 2 hours of break… My head is hurting, and Im not sure if its even good for me.</p>
<p>I would not recommend studying for 3 hours per day. I would just study when I wanted to and when I had time, because I learn the most when I actually want to do the work and learn. The most important thing you can do is learn something from every problem you get wrong. Make sure you understand exactly what went wrong. Using the Blue Book, some online flashcards for vocabulary, and my studies in school, I was able to raise my practice test scores from 2000-2100 to ~2300 in about 6 months (I took huge breaks that lasted 1-2 months at times, so you can improve your score in 3 months of consistent working).</p>