<p>^I'll be waiting for that guide.</p>
<p>Now I feel pressure to write it. :P Maybe this break.</p>
<p>I can write that guide for you guys:</p>
<p>Luck.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>"I can write that guide for you guys:</p>
<p>Luck."</p>
<p>Please, don't crush the hopes of the 2400-seekers!</p>
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<p>A 2400 is pure skill - I don't see how there is any luck involved whatsoever. Only kids that are smart enough in everything get 2400s.</p>
<p>Seriously, you should probably add "And if you do retake a 2300+, you are wasting your time and not doing anything to improve your chances of admission."</p>
<p>Any score is a combination of skill, luck, and other circumstances. I will say it right now: I am pretty lucky to have gotten a 2370 SAT and 240 PSAT. Under different circumstances I could have done far far worse...and there are a hell of a lot of vocab words I don't know that I'm glad didn't show up.</p>
<p>edit: depending on luck i can see myself reasonably scoring anywhere from 2330-2400 on the SAT</p>
<p>I disagree. I think that scores can be luck, but I'm sure there are plenty of 2400 scorers who would score the same if they took it again. For people who got 800 on a section: Did you consistently score 800 on practice tests? On the math, it's quite easy to. So I would hesitate to say it's "luck."</p>
<p>I guess if I were to say anything about how to go from 2300-2400 that doesn't involve luck would either be if you are already scoring a 2300+ to just forget it and spend your time doing something else or practice. A lot of practice. (And check your answers like crazy).</p>
<p>It's not at all luck. </p>
<p>If you're adequately prepared -- which I wasn't last year when I got a 2340 -- then scoring a 2400, given that you're endowed with the "right stuff", shouldn't be random.</p>
<p>On QAS, I have scored 2400 several times (and 1600 on 10RS).</p>
<p>Well I guess it depends on what you consider luck and what isn't luck. If you score 2400 half the time you take a practice test, some would call it luck because 50% of the time you wouldn't get a 2400. Sure, its a high percentage in terms of getting a perfect score on the SAT, but it's still luck to a extent. Some consider 50% luck, some 60, 70 80, or even 90. So before you call it luck or not please specify what you consider luck and what you don't consider luck. </p>
<p>Personally I agree with Baelor that many people are able to consistently get 800s on math, but I doubt there are people able to do so on all 3 sections, at least in the way the math section can be torn apart. I guess it is really all speculation because there are too few of us 2400ers to give any real empirical evidence about anything, some find it to be more of a lucky test sort of thing like myself, while others think they can consistently get 2400s (and even so few of them can really back it up because after all, who takes the SATs again under a real test condition after getting a 2400).</p>
<p>If I get a 2400 in December, I'll take it again in January to see if I can pull it off twice. My life's so boring and drab that I have nothing else to do.</p>
<p>^what?</p>
<p>lol....</p>
<p>Lol, I got a 2320 and I never took a full length practice test. Really people, are you going to spend your whole lives studying for a worthless collegeboard exam??</p>
<p>There's always an element of luck to standardized tests. That's just how they're designed.</p>
<p>I score about 2250-2300 in my practice tests; And I hope I can get at least 2100 in the real SAT.</p>
<p>Best Level: 32 </p>
<p>This site is great; I have donated over 1200 Grains of rice to the hungry while honing word recognition skills. I <3 It!</p>
<p>I call to sticky this thread!
I got a 2380 and I absolutely agree with these techniques. (grr... darn those last 20 points)</p>
<p>Everything about this post applies to me as well... down to the exact score.</p>
<p>The original post is absolutely correct, getting 2400 (or close to it) is a matter of constant practice and dedication. There's no need to spend years and years studying--for me, I just practiced 2-3 hours a day the summer before my junior year.</p>
<p>I wasn't perfect starting out. I made lots and lots of mistakes. But practice enough, and identify every mistake you make, and correct it in future practice tests, and eventually you will run out of mistakes to make. The result is a perfect score. Perfection is simply the absence of mistakes, and given the range of material found in the test (it may seem like a lot, but they can only ask so many different questions about parallelism or parabolas or the word "prosaic."), getting a perfect score is simply a matter of being mindful of your mistakes when you take practice tests.</p>
<p>Oh, wow, good job! I am going to take the January SAT, so I will follow this advice. (hoping for 2300+, got 2260 last time I took it). Also, I'm worried about PSAT results..did anyone here get them? (for wednesday) I hope I didn't mess up the writing part.</p>
<p>^ Oh I'm worried about my PSAT scores too. I hope it's not that different from my SAT scores..</p>
<p>There's been some CCers who got their wednesday PSAT scores back..we've been on Thanksgiving break since Monday so I don't know if my scores are in or not.</p>
<p>But thread is great advice!!
When I took the SAT in OCT..i wasn't very well informed at all!! I did some practice tests but I didn't really have the right mindset..like for CR I was trying to intepret things my way and then wondering why I got the question wrong when I should've told myself that the answer is IN the passage I just have to look for it instead of making one up haha. ANd for the math section..i would get excited if my answer was one of the choices and didn't check my answers very closely!</p>
<p>Bumped for anyone looking for advice on how to improve as I see many have made threads about.</p>