<p>What is that distinguishes test takers who achieve high scores on the SAT from those who score on average? Is it natural test taking abilities, endless hours of studying, or natural intelligence? How is it, that someone can effortlessly conquer the SAT with ease; while other struggle to gain an average or above average score? This is what I want to know.</p>
<p>Its all about looking for patterns. Finding patterns in how the questions are asked helps you develop strategies towards answering them, so you are able to consistently do well. This can be natural, but it is also possible to learn it through practice. The best test takers practice these tests by looking for the patterns and using them to their advantage. This way, the SAT becomes a test of your recognition of the patterns, and not the material itself, becoming much easier to score well on.</p>
<p>I can’t stand the phrase ‘test-takers’. All it does is belittle the people that score well as only having some vague “test-taking ability”, and not intelligence and/or a work ethic, and that low-scorers are just star-crossed, and are really geniuses, but they’re ‘bad test takers’. Awwww.</p>
<p>/rant</p>
<p>I believe it’s more of self-motivation.</p>