<p>Hi Everyone!</p>
<p>I took the SAT for the first time in March. My parents insisted that I take a prep course beforehand, so I did. The course definately helped, my SAT score went up around 200 points from my PSAT. I got an 1860. However, I really need to get a 2000+ in order to be competative at most of the schools I am looking at. I took around 7 practice tests this summer from the PR book and didn't see a substancial increase in my score. I just got the Blue Book today after reading so much about it on this website. So I guess my question is how can I use the Blue Book to improve my score. I've heard so many good things about it and I want to make the most out of it as I can. Any tips, suggestions, or personal stories would be much appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I just want to know how everyone used thier Blue Book to get the most out of it, thats all.</p>
<p>Take the practice tests, review every answer you got wrong (& some which you got right) online.</p>
<p>The best way to increase your score to 2000+ is to review your answers carefully. Really consider why one answer is better than the others and think back on your thought process when you were working on every problem you got wrong. After I did this, I began to see a pattern in SAT problems.</p>
<p>Remember BB tests 1, 2, and 3 are real. Tests 4 - 10 are actually amalgams from tests given before 2005. You might try going to the College Board Online Store and order recent PSATs. They are only $3.00 each and provide great practice.</p>
<p>Agreed with the rest. You will see a lot of reoccurring patterns, especially in the math section of the exam. After you complete one or two exams you’ll be able to see those patterns and apply them to different questions.</p>
<p>Also, if you ever guess on a question, mark it in some way. Make sure to review the answer (whether right or wrong) and understand the concept clearly-obviously, review of concepts is easier in math/writing than reading, but you can still apply the same techniques.</p>
<p>The biggest problem I always seem to have is narrowing my choices down to two answers and then choosing the wrong one. The one that I don’t choose always turns out to be the right answer. Does this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>^ It would be a much easier exam if that didn’t happen to people, Natasha. Because these things do happen on the exam, you just have to practice looking for the subtleties that truly makes one answer better than the other.</p>
<p>^If you actually look at all the questions on which you picked the wrong answer from the 2 left, there should be a 50/50 split between right and wrong. You usually just see the wrong ones and think, “Oh crap! I was only down to 2 choices and picked the wrong one again!” without noticing the ones that you got right. The exact same thing happened to me before I realized that my “consistent picking the wrong choice” was statistically weird and then decided to look into it.</p>