<p>Background info-</p>
<p>I am a junior going into summer, I will be a senior next year and plan to take the SAT for the last time in October/November.</p>
<p>I need to raise my score from 1830-2100+..</p>
<p>I have -</p>
<p>Grubers
Blue Book
Barron's 2400
Direct Hits Vocab volumes 1+2
Princeton cracking the SAT 2011</p>
<p>So I bet you're thinking what I am, why don't I just study all summer, I've got plenty of time since there will be no school. But if I did that, I'm afraid I would get through all of these books and run out of practice materials before July was even over. Sure, I would have gotten practice in, but it wouldn't be fresh on my mind right before I took the SAT.</p>
<p>So what do you think I should do? </p>
<p>Option 1:Start studying now because I wont forget concepts and then just study vocab in the last weeks before my SAT </p>
<p>Option 2:Wait until it gets closer to the SAT before I start studying so it will be fresher on my mind? (you can recommend a date if you want)</p>
<p>or do you think I'm worrying for nothing and all of these books will take all summer to go through?</p>
<p>Thank you for your time, all replies are GREATLY appreciated</p>
<p>You’ve got a pretty large amount of practice tests. You should just schedule them on weekends, and take them just as if you were taking the SAT. Maybe post your essays on here for people to grade them for you. In the other time, just review concepts over and over, since repetition can’t hurt at all. I’d focus on those little tips and tricks that people give early, so you can get in the habit of engaging them. But by no means do I know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>I think you SHOULD start as soon as possible. Cramming does not work for most, and you won’t really retain the info. I belie you should go though all the books multiple times…</p>
<p>Use Barron’s 3500 list. After you get majority of the list done, review Direct Hits (you will see that a lot of the DH words are in Barrons. This is good, this will allow you to focus on the most hit words while having a large set of extra words that might show up). </p>
<p>As for math, I heard that Grubers is a good. Go through the book at least twice. If you cannot, once is good enough.</p>
<p>PR: Don’t read the tips it gives you, just use the book’s tests.</p>
<p>If you need tips on writing, Kaplan’s writing method is by far one of the best I encountered. </p>
<p>For CR: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html</a></p>
<p>As far as the blue book goes, run through the book twice and use it like a bible. Make sure to space out your tests. If you run out of tests and reused them too quickly, get the online course and use it’s tests.</p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>EDIT: I forgot to mention, you should start doing this NOW!</p>
<p>This is a good question. I’ve though of this:</p>
<p>Would you forgot the key concepts during the gap between finish studying and the actual test? If so, how would you review your concepts right before the test?</p>
<p>thank you very much for the replies, any more thoughts?</p>
<p>Since about last November, I’ve been studying on and off for the SAT that I’m taking in June. I started off with 2000-2100 practice test scores, and I just practiced. When I had too much homework and got bored of studying, I stopped. Then I got back into it in February for about a month, and then I stopped in order to study for the AP exams. I started up again about halfway through May and so far I have consistently scored 2250+. The only studying I’ve done for the SAT is through the blue book, online tests, and vocabulary flashcards for my iTouch that I occasionally look at. For me, I think it is best to find my own ways of performing well on the sections rather than having various books tell me strategies that might work.</p>