<p>Philovitist, did you get a 2290 or a 2300? Your posts today are contradictory.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14969963-post1719.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14969963-post1719.html</a></p>
<p>Oh, thanks for paying attention.</p>
<p>I misread my writing score in my first few posts of it. It’s a 750.</p>
<p>660/580/550. Per the charts at the ACT website, I’d be better off just submitting my ACT score (28 composite) - except the Writing portion wasn’t offered when I took it at my high school last spring. 
I’ve already been accepted at one of my safety schools - but my parents were hoping I’d get much higher scores, so as to have a better chance of getting accepted by an elite school with fantastic non-loan financial aid. Hope I do better on the Subject Tests in November!</p>
<p>My mom’s selling my SAT prep stuff on eBay; it hasn’t even been written in yet! (Which might explain my mediocre scores ) Anyway, do a search for “SAT” on eBay (starting Saturday night 10/27), and look for auctions being run by “mccfamschool”, and you’ll find the stuff my mom’s selling.</p>
<p>Haha no problem, Philovitist; I was just wondering. :)</p>
<p>740/720/750</p>
<p>2210 with study</p>
<p>Anyone else think that the curve for math was pretty lenient this time? I know definitely that I got like, 3 MC’s wrong and one response wrong. A 720 on math seems a bit too nice for that</p>
<p>1840 I will be taking it my last time in December!</p>
<p>First test:
CR- 800 M-760 W-590 </p>
<p>Recent test:
CR-800 M-710 W-790</p>
<p>So I went from 2150 to 2300, and a superscore of 2350. :)</p>
<p>Super pumped. No studying.</p>
<p>First SAT!</p>
<p>CR: 670
Math: 800
Writing: 730
Multiple Choice: 76
Essay: 8</p>
<p>Composite: 2200</p>
<p>My goal is a 2300 and I really want to raise my Critical Reading score and score at least a 10 on the essay. Does anyone have any advice on how to study and prepare for the Critical Reading section and how to write the essay better? Thanks :)</p>
<p>woah what a drastic jump. how long did you wait between the first and last one?
2200 >_<. And I studied a lot. I’m satisfied; I guess this is the extent of my abilities…</p>
<p>@Pecanduck That’s awesome!!! Good for you! How do you approach the Critical Reading section? You’ve gotten 800’s both times- props to you!</p>
<p>SAT: 2400 (first time and single sitting)
PSAT: 183</p>
<p>Score raises are possible. I took 10 practice tests and more importantly, read many, many books (unrelated to the SAT). Inherent intellectual capacity is not the main factor. Do not give up. </p>
<p>I felt helpless at the start, but now, I have to say, I am feeling pretty good.</p>
<p>2250 - took a class in the spring before I took them the first time (and got a 2140) didn’t study at ALL before this one though.</p>
<p>YEEEHHAAA!</p>
<p>Composite: 2350
Critical Reading: 760
Math: 800
Writing: 790
Multiple Choice: 90
Essay: 8</p>
<p>Studying: Took a $1000 private class course over the summer (while studying some materials online). I got a 1920 on the course’s first diagnostic test (even though i got a 1960 in 9th grade - I am a junior now), and a 2290 on the course’s 4th and final diagnostic test. I attribute the increase not primarily to the course itself (having a personal essay grader was pretty nice) but to the practice problems in the book, the practice and accountability (knowing you had to have the 2 hours of practice work done by the next day), and learning the ins and out of the test by practice. The practice book was great.</p>
<p>practice after the course - Taking practice test out of the Blue Book was very beneficial: <a href=“blue book sat - Google Search”>blue book sat - Google Search;
<p>Vocabulary - vocabulary.com is amazing! Its fun and addictive and teaches words in context: I learned like 400 SATs from this easily. You can search for custom SAT lists on there.
Math - How to get from the 650s/700 - 800? BlueBook practice tests + the 3 free online PWN THE SAT hard diagnostic math tests. Checking your work (making sure your answer answers the question and not just 1 part of the question) is critical. Most of my mistakes were careless mistakes. Also, learn the shortcuts: all sat math problems can be solved without a calculator in under a minute. You typically just have to find an intuitive shortcut.</p>
<p>SilverTurtle’s Guide in the CollegeConfidential forums was great too.
There are plenty of other amazing guide and section specific guides out there on CollegeConfidential and on the Internet.</p>
<p>You can improve your score by studying.</p>
<p>2010 with studying. 1460 on practice 5 months ago</p>
<p>Reading the SAT Math Bible overnight got me from 660 to 740.</p>
<p>Hey guys, i havent gotten my score back yet, but if i missed one question on the grid in section on the math and that’s it, does anyone know for sure what my score would be? 790? 780? 770?</p>
<p>infinitynbeyond, thanks!! I was very excited to get the second 800 as I was worried I had peaked the first time. 
my English teacher is really strict about vocab. Here is what he has us do: Whenever we read a book in class, we have to keep a vocab list of any words that are unfamiliar to us. This includes words that you wouldn’t know without context. He tests us on words without giving us a vocab list. It was a pain, but it paid off when I recognized tons of words in the CR section. Bottom line: To me, doing vocab from novels was more beneficial because I had context sentences that helped me remember the words and you get a lot more variation then. I am not sure whether the reading selections or the vocab was tough for you, but that is my advice on that part. As for the selections, I personally ALWAYS skim the selection before even the questions. Not thoroughly, but enough so I understand the major point of every paragraph. Then, when you read the questions you might already know the answers to some, rather than wasting time searching for the answers. Or at the very least, you will have a better idea of where to find the answers. Most importantly, DON’T PANIC. Sometimes you get so wrapped up in the importance of the test that your brain freezes and does stupid things. I know this may seem very basic and there are surely much better and comprehensive guides out there. But that is my approach. Good luck!</p>