What should I do a week before the SAT's

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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Ok so this is my first time ever posting here so I’m not exactly sure if I’m doing it right.

Anyways, I’m taking the January SAT’s in 6 days!!! I’m completely freaking out right now because I need a good score.
I feel as though haven’t prepared as much as I feel a lot of you have.I honestly didn’t really know what the SAT was until about 4-5 months ago when my mom first made me take a class. So i took a few practice tests in that class and my score consistently wavered around 2150 (I kind of just decided I’d try to raise it later lol). I tried to study vocab but I honestly only studied about 200 words (and then there is talk about reading books and stuff to help you for the SAT - what even is that???) I also got a 211 on my PSAT in October and I was really sad about that score :(((.

So anyways what I’m mostly stressed out about is today, after reviewing a little for the past about week and I decided to take the May 2010 test (here’s a link to it: https://app.box.com/s/o93d7v3gvd3ghynnyz3a) and pretend it was the real test (timing myself for each section and stuff) just to see where I was at and I got a 2400 (i missed 1 of the CR but it still curved to an 800 and i didn’t do the essay but i’m hoping for at least a 10 on it and i got 49 on the mc). I’m really scared now that the test was weirdly easy or something and also that I just randomly guessed the right answers and that it was a total fluke and that I’m going to get less the 2100 on the real test. Now I’m even more stressed out because I feel that if I score anything before 2200 I will be severely disappointed.

was the test weirdly easy?
what score do you think I can get on the actual SAT?
also, what should i do for the next few days to prepare myself so I don’t get a horrifically low score???

I’m so nervous right now!

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Just practice a little each night. At this point if you were not confident with your test-taking abilities, it would be too late to cram and change anything. I think you’ll be fine. You can always take it again if you’re not satisfied. Just get a good nights sleep before, maybe try to get one more practice test in this week, and review for 30 minutes each night. Best of luck.

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Thank you for replying! I am not at all confident with my test taking abilities and I feel as though I might just crack under the pressure. I’m going to take another practice test tomorrow and try to get it to 2300 (if I do i’ll be so happy) and ill just work on reviewing words and look for some more examples for my essay.

ahhh i hate this test

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Worrying won’t help. Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. If you’ve been scoring that good on practice tests then you should at least score over a 2100, which is already a competitive test score.

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Yeah, just stay calm. In 4 or 5 days you will not improve too much so just watch some movies or do something. Good Luck!!!

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Relax. What score do you want? And a 211 PSAT isn’t bad. What state are you from?

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i really want a 2200 and anything above that would be awesome

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i just got a 2360 on another practice test so hopefully that is a good sign??