<p>Not just prep books.
The books you read that helped and courses (like Kaplan or Sylvan?) and also online courses!</p>
<p>make sure i bought a timer</p>
<p>i didn't study at all, just made sure i was calm and and levelheaded, and pulled a 1570.</p>
<p>cmon... BUMP</p>
<p>Well what im doing now is continuously doing reading practice sections. It's really easy after a while, i mean the answers come straight out of the text. its keeping focused while you read that crap that's hard. I've done alot of math questions, doing their weird worded questions. And im still working on writing</p>
<p>nothing. i took a friend's used PR 11 Practice Tests for the SAT and did like 2 of the 9 he didn't do. then i went and took the test. 2230.</p>
<p>i did blue book prac tests, looked over barrons 2400, and memorized the SAT 1000 word list. I only got a 2190 in march.</p>
<p>Ironically this time I think i got around 2300 but i didnt study at all...The SAT isnt meant to be studied for anyway, so it's not like an SATII, where you'll be destroyed if you don't know the material.</p>
<p>lol, all I did was practice CR problems for the 3 days leading up to the test each time...and memorized about 50 words that I didn't already know...and lo and behold most of them showed up on the june test.</p>
<p>I got a 2270 in december and am thinking about 100 points or so higher for this one (hopefully, I dont believe in that jinx crap so if I don't get that then oh well)</p>
<p>I really didn't study much for the SAT. I had the Kaplan book, but only looked at it for about 10 minutes.</p>
<p>I did one sparknotes practice test and got the SAT question a day for about a year prior.</p>
<p>I "studied" for about a week...</p>
<p>A lot of people say they don't study, but I'm pretty sure they do in some way or another...like read books, study math, and/or write.</p>
<p>I took the SAT 3 times and tihs is how I honestly studied for them:</p>
<p>1st time:
-Read all of Barron's Hot Words for SAT
-Did some practice tests in the Blue Book
-Took a prep course a few months before (waste of time though since I skipped a lot of classes)
~20hrs</p>
<p>2nd time:
-Looked up random practice stuff online
~5hrs</p>
<p>3rd time:
-Read all of Barron's 2400
~15hrs</p>
<p>I also write a lot on my own time so that's how I manage to do well in Writing.</p>
<p>so what score did you end up with? if you don't mind me asking..</p>
<p>Hah. I'm a little bit shy about my score, but...</p>
<p>2nd time I got my score up 100 points (110 composite).</p>
<p>This time I'm sure I at least raised my math and critical reading, so I'm basically guessing I raised it AT LEAST 50 points (composite). My writing probably dropped because I hated the essay.</p>
<p>Some advice: Read Barron's 2400. Best thing ever. It helped me learn how to pay attention more to critical reading and explains all the hard math problems I didn't used to know how to do. Lots of good equations worth memorizing.</p>
<p>bump! share your success stories!</p>
<p>nice thread</p>
<p>i'd say read a lot. just reading for pleasure makes a great difference, in my opinion.</p>
<p>i studied for critical reading a lot less than my friend A did, but A read way less than i did. therefore, i get 760-800 on my cr scores while A gets sub 700 both times. (A isn't a FOB or anything, she's really smart and writes well)</p>
<p>also, time when you're gonna take the SATs. it's general consensus that october-december/january tests are easier than the spring ones, since oct-dec/jan is for the seniors doing last minutes tests, while the spring tests are for hard working, eager/"nerdy" (sorry if that's offensive?) juniors/underclassmen.</p>
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also, time when you're gonna take the SATs. it's general consensus that october-december/january tests are easier than the spring ones, since oct-dec/jan is for the seniors doing last minutes tests, while the spring tests are for hard working, eager/"nerdy" (sorry if that's offensive?) juniors/underclassmen.
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<p>thats actually not a true rumor, thankfully. also, the curve is predetermined, so the quality of the students taking the test does not affect the curve.</p>
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<p>All editions of the SAT are developed using the same test specifications. Even if there are tiny differences in difficulty from test to test, a statistical process called "equating" ensures that a score for a test taken on one date or at one place is equivalent to a score for a test taken on another date or in another place. The rumors that the SAT in one month, say in October, is easier, are false.
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<p>bump!
haha</p>