Why do my scores fluctuate so awfully?!

<p>I've take 14 practice tests over winter break, 5 from Grubers, 4 from Cracking the SAT PR, and 5 from PR 11 Practice tests, and my score pretty much wildly fluctuates. I must be reviewing wrong or something! Look at this:</p>

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<p>Any diagnoses? Tips to stay more consistently high?</p>

<p>EDIT: This is for the math section only.</p>

<p>Don’t pay attention to scores from non-Blue Book tests.</p>

<p>what are your scores from ONLY the blue book tests? Post those and if these is consistency among those scores, then that solves your problem. Blue book scores are the most accurate indicator.</p>

<p>Ah okay, I haven’t taken any Blue Book tests yet because I’m seeking to sharpen all my math SAT skills before using up the golden Collegeboard material. So I shouldn’t worry too much yet with non BB?</p>

<p>Well, are all your scores from Grubers similar? If your scores are similar for each of the books you use (if all your PR scores are close to the same and all your Grubers are close and all your PR cracking the SAT scores are the same, then it makes sense.). </p>

<p>That probably sounded confusing but I hope you get what I’m saying. If there is a correlation between which book you use and you scores, then that is good.</p>

<p>Soon though, I would take a practice test from the Blue book to see where your at. It comes with 10 tests, so if you use one to gage where your at, then that would be beneficial. You’ve taken 14 practice tests, so you should be familiar with the set up and structure. Taking a blue book test in a simulated testing environment would give you an idea of what your real score would be.</p>

<p>Grubers - 41, 48, 42, 43, 49
Cracking - 46, 45, 48, 52
PR 11 - 49, 48, 48, 51, 44</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m going to start working in the BB pretty soon, I’ll see how it goes.</p>

<p>PR 11 are very consistent. So in Cracking…Grubers is a little inconsistent, but not a lot, could’ve just been couple bad days or something.</p>

<p>Yea, blue book will give you a strong indicator of what to expect. I am working out of the BB right now, but I never used anything else before. I should’ve probably did what you did, because I’ve used up 3 practice tests already and my marks have been consistent which isn’t good because I need to improve more. I’m think that I should go get Barron’s 2400, finish it, then try the rest of the BB tests.</p>