<p>......1860, thats all?!! i had a REALLY good feeling i did well on the march SAT, i was expecting somewhere around 2000. im so disappointed....on practice tests for writing i was averaging around the mid 700s but i end up with a 660, i was really hoping i could get 800 math and mid 700 for writing and just spend the rest of the year ranking up on CR but looks like i gota do everything. im feeling really hopeless right now because ive put so much time and practice into SATs yet im not exponentially improving. anyone else have *** scores? help?</p>
<p>try the ACT! i had a lower score on the SAT that I didn’t really like, but then I took the ACT and got a pretty good score. Now i’m just gonna retake the ACT to hopefully improve by a few points. the ACT just seemed so much easier to me.</p>
<p>idk, this tutor place ive been going to for like a year now is strictly on SATs and plus i dont know too much about the ACT. its just transitioning from a test version ive been so attached to to another is worrying me</p>
<p>First of all, don’t set your sights on 800 yet. That’s a REALLY hard thing to do, and almost nobody does it, and still pretty much everybody gets into a college they’re very happy with.</p>
<p>To improve about 100 points, you need to make one fewer mistake per section. Seriously, that’s it. So concentrate on going up 100 points at a time. Isolate the kinds of questions that are weaknesses for you, and drill them until they become strengths. Once you’ve settled one batch of weaknesses, start on another batch. Improvements happen in small increments, not all at once.</p>
<p>concerns:
MATH- the problem with these are that im not quick enough to find the correct way to solving some of the hard problems. and sometimes i get easy ones wrong from careless errors but anyway the thing is though after each practice session, i CAN solve all the math problems i got wrong but its just that during “that” moment while im taking the sections that i cant think of the solution fast enough. I really dont know how to overcome this : /</p>
<p>CR- alright well i guess you should know but im asian, however i was born here so technically i should have no problems with CR i guess…but i do. Aside from the vocab (i just need to memorize words) the passages are my struggle. sometimes i do well sometimes i dont and thats cause i either dont understand the passage OR im thinking the passages implied tone is different from what the questions are asking. like i may think the passage is about beauty while the questions think its about something else so i end up getting the questions wrong. </p>
<p>idk ive been practicing alot and its just tough making the same mistakes over again even though im trying to solve them. and tips on what i could do?</p>
<p>OP, what was your breakdown?</p>
<p>I have the same problem with CR 
I have a 590 in that so far…</p>
<p>SAME WITH CR! I have a 580 almost perfect in the others. I HATE standardized test reading sections! Too much to process in not enough time, and too subjective of answers to choose from!</p>
<p>Try underlining keywords and main ideas in passages that might help you understand the tone of the passage and what they are about!</p>
<p>I know underlining constantly helps me speed read and focus on the story. Also, if you pay attention to words used in the story (ex: “I don’t want to do that,” Jenna argued defiantly.), then you can use those to figure out the tone also.</p>
<p>trust me, ive done almost every technique people have offered. underlying, circling, read 1st then answer or vice versa, etc. so far my most comfortable one is just going to the questions and underlying lines and stuff then read and answer but still, my scores are in the low to mid 500s <------REALLY bad… idk, i really need help</p>
<p>I got a 1990, 10 pts from a 2000 but it’s close enough. I too had a much lower score on maththan expected. I received a 670 on math while during all my practice tests I rarely scored below 750 and one time got an 800. I guess practice isn’t worth much if you go in overly confident and make careless errors on easy problems like me. Oh well I’ll own it in October hopefully.</p>
<p>PICKME, you have the same attitude as i do. hopefully all of us who arnt doing so well now will murder the SAT eventually. </p>
<p>well back to the main idea of this thread lol, any advicce???</p>