<p>If you want, you can indicate whether you felt you did well on the test (AP, ACT, SAT, or anything else) that day or not.</p>
<p>Did you have a large breakfast? Do you usually have breakfast?
What about at break? Did you at least bring water?
Did you feel that your breakfast/snacks had an impact on your test performance?</p>
<p>Personally: my junior year AP history teacher was adamant about power bars and water. I think it helped me stay alert, though it may have been a placebo effect/something else. I'm also not sure if the big-meals-make-you-drowsy thing is true.</p>
<p>I think I had eggs…? Breakfast is always good for you! (especially because the SAT is four hours long!)
Be sure to bring snacks. I had some crunchy rice things but they weren’t great.
Lots of water is good as well!</p>
<p>I think I had a doughnut from Dunkin Donuts…I know sugar before a big test is supposed to be bad, but it worked for me. I would just try to eat a fairly normal breakfast…nothing that would risk getting yourself a stomachache or something.</p>
<p>You’re overthinking this. Focus on the material on the test, and as long as you sleep the night before the test and eat something, it won’t be that big of a deal.</p>
<p>i always eat an egg over easy with toast the morning of a big test. filling and yummy.
i don’t think i ate anything during the breaks. wasn’t hungry. but i don’t think it really matters, as long as you aren’t starving and don’t have a stomach ache</p>
<p>aaaah, classic. The whole thing is a giant placebo effect. None of that ‘night before’ and ‘morning of’ stuff makes any difference. It’s all in your head. The night before my SAT2 history, i stayed up 'till 1:00 am refreshing on all the material in my review book. then i woke up and was too nervous to eat. Just went right to the testing center without food; only water. IT WAS FINE. My practice tests (the real ones from the CB book) showed 650, 670. And if all this hub-bub over a good night’s sleep and a perfectlnot-to-big, not-too-small breakfast is real i would have gotten less than the average of my Practice Tests. Instead i got a 700. And as - amatter-of-fact, i remember one question particularly that i got right only b/c i had read over that detail the night before. If i had listened to the typical “get to bed by 10 the night before” i would have had a 690 or lower- and man there’s a huge difference between a 690 and 700. So thank g-d for not falling for all this made-up junk</p>
<p>Just think, maybe if you would have actually began studying earlier and gone to bed at a decent time, you might have even scored higher on the test.</p>
<p>Eating a good well balanced breakfast is a real good idea. Too much sugar has the potential to make you even more nervous. A lot of dairy items can make you sleepy.</p>
<p>Snacks are definitely the way to go and bottled water is close to being a must.</p>
<p>Gum, if they will let you have it at your test sight helps with the nerves.</p>
<p>Breakfast: Unsalted peanuts + Water. It just felt hardcore.</p>
<p>Break One: Peanut Butter Nature Valley Granola Bar+Water. </p>
<p>Break Two: Two bags of Swedish Fish (+Water). Highly refined sugars = sugar high, just long enough to finish the test before the crash. </p>
<p>I used this pattern both times I took the SAT, and it seemed to work. The sugar high, especially, helps maintain energy during the final few sections which are otherwise a drag.</p>
Breakfast is always good for you! (especially because the SAT is four hours long!)