<p>I have barron 2400 and the Official college book. I'm thinking I would do Mon-Fri spend at least one hour on Barron's and on the weekends I will do some practice tests on the weekends for what ever time needed. Any other ways on studying and for how long?</p>
<p>Do at least 15 mins of vocab a day, it will raise your Cr.</p>
<p>You need a wake-up call and a dose of reality.</p>
<p>First, take a practice test from the Official SAT Study Guide. Take it under as real conditions as possible.</p>
<p>Then go over the answers and see what you got right and what you got wrong. Try to figure out why you got them wrong (psychological reasons, because of a stupid mistake, because you really don't know how to do it?).</p>
<p>Make a list of things you don't know how to do (weak on vocab, don't know how to factor mathematical expressions, probability questions, idiomatic expressions, etc.).</p>
<p>Then make a realistic estimate of how long it will take you to learn the stuff.</p>
<p>Work at it. At the end of the day write down what you've actually accomplished. It's amazing how many times I think I've worked really hard, but at the end of the day when I ask myself what I've actually accomplished, I haven't finished much of what I needed to accomplish.</p>
<p>I give this advice because one of my friends is seriously going crazy over the SAT, and she's only a sophomore! She keeps asking how I got a good score on the SAT and how many hours a week I studied. I actually studied for the SAT very little; by the time I was a junior I had the basic math/reading/writing skills that I got through my daily activities, like reading for fun, learning grammar in English class, and writing essays for English class. The SAT should test your skills for success in college, not necessarily how well you've prepared for one test. You should work at developing those skills, not on the actual test.</p>
<p>That means getting better at reading comprehension by establishing the good habit of reading the local newspaper and reading for pleasure before you go to bed. It means paying attention in algebra class rather than cramming facts into your brain. It means learning the rules of grammar and style because it's important for you, rather than focusing all your efforts on SAT, SAT, SAT. You should work to develop the skills that are needed in college and in the future. </p>
<p>If you've done this diligently, you won't really find much need to study specificially for the SAT. You will already have acquired the skills. It's like studying hard for a basic high school graduation test, when you already know all the stuff. Studying specifically for that test isn't really necessary.</p>
<p>A lot of the people who do really well on the SAT already have those critical reading, math reasoning, and general writing skills--they didn't study 24 hours a day seven days a week for a year for one test.</p>
<p>This is how you should approach "studying" for the SAT. I think that it's the best way to develop the needed skills, if you haven't quite acquired them yet. I hope that this post will shed some more light on the purpose of the SAT and why many colleges want you to take them.</p>
<p>I'm actually using the same combo as you, BB and Barrons 2400.
I find Barrons really helpful, so I spend about 15 mins reading it. My math scores are near perfect everytime, so I decided not to review all the math stuff in Barrons, rather just focus on the CR and Writing Sections.
During weekdays, whenever I get time I loom at Barrons (about 15 mins a day).
During weekends I take one practice test to see where I stand.</p>
<p>After reading through all the strategies carefully, I went from getting 4-6 wrong in a passage, to 1-2. Hopefully that'll go less as I practice further.</p>
<p>Anyways, if ur taking it in March, its good to have a schedule. Me being myself, I am way to lazy to follow a schedule. But im hoping as March 1st comes closer I become serious so I can lay out a schedule for myself.</p>
<p>The biggest benefit of taking March SAT's is President weekend. TAKE ADVANTAGE of it. We have a 4-day weekend (friday and sat), so im going to study my *** off. </p>
<p>Anyways, good luck.</p>
<p>here's to studying my arse off! yeah, march 1...woot. I have 9 days off, all sat prep, woot!</p>