Validity of 10 REAL's

Test Preparation
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<p>Ok. Here is my SAT history:
......................... Math - Verbal - total
7th grade no prep: 640 - 520 - 1160
9th grade with " 690 - 610 - 1300
now " 720 - 680 - 1400</p>

<p>OK. Obviously College Board is cheating us with 10 reals. ME! getting 1400? I am a sophomore, and not that smart. I never read any of those heavy ass books, or do those practice tests'. So I have to take the dec 4th one on sat, and I took a practice test. There is no way I jumped 100pts in 5 months! I am betting the practice tests from 10 reals aren't real.</p>

<p>Also, me and my mom(see, a grammar mistake already!) went over my score sheet, and saw I consistently miss the easiest questions, getting all the hard ones right! Wtf?!?!</p>

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<p>Easy ?s--Make sure you read each answer choice to each question.
The score jumps aren't that surprising. It doesn't seem like you gain a lot of knowledge over that short of a time, but you read more and more, get more math, etc., so it happens a lot, especially w/ bright kids. Good luck on the test.</p>

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<p>Well, on math, I am making the typical careless mistakes.</p>

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<p>Stop with the conspiracy theories. They're not cheating you.</p>

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<p>The point of using 10 Real SATs is not only to predict the general range of your scores, but also to provide practice. If you've practiced a lot, there's no reason to be skeptical about your 1400. </p>

<p>And no, CB is definitely not cheating you. 10 Reals was my favorite book when I had to take the SATs.</p>

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<p>yeah 10 reals is the most helpful test prep. </p>

<p>practice makes perfect.</p>

<p>and a 100 point jump isn't that uncommon. Using ten reals, I went from 1300 to 1470 over 5 months....</p>

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<p>That's actually not surprising at all - typically, scores seem to rise 50 - 100 points from year to year, with little or no prep</p>

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<p>10 real test doesnt tell why the answer is correct it just tells you the letter choice for the question, for someone preping for the sat in my opinion the book is no good i rather use barrons</p>

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<p>well if you know the concepts, then 10 REAL SATs is a good source for practice tests because most of the time you can figure out where you goofed on your own</p>

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<p>Depending on the curve, you could gain 100 points from getting about 5 more questions correct than you normally do, or about one per section. It's not that huge of a difference - hell, a few lucky guesses and you're set. </p>

<p>I'm pretty sure the tests from 10 Reals ARE the real tests...otherwise, someone who actually DID take the real test and compared their test to the published one would probably have figured it out already...</p>

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<p>good call Jimmy</p>

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<p>lol lol Sagar Sagar Sagar... your smart self posting a dumb post like that... (I personally know him, he's very smart)</p>

<p>But yeah, 10 Reals is accurate.
Remember THEY ARE REAL SAT's. how can you get a closer simulation?</p>

<p>You are smart and you've gotten enough practice by doing other stuff in class. </p>

<p>You miss easy questions because you don't pay attention, you get hard ones right cuz you do pay attention. simple explanation.... remember Mandelbrot Round 1, easy questions - wrong.... <em>laughs</em> c-ya in school</p>

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10 real test doesnt tell why the answer is correct it just tells you the letter choice for the question, for someone preping for the sat in my opinion the book is no good i rather use barrons

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<p>If you want explanations to 10 Reals, just register at <a href="http://www.studyhall.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.studyhall.com&lt;/a> and go to the sat/psat explanations part.
Thank xiggi for that great site :)</p>

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<p>The idea of ten real tests is to allow students to get loads of valuable practice. The more used to the format and questions you get, the better you will naturally do. And they ARE real.</p>