descreet

Hello !

Hope you are in good spirit... First of all, please allow me to wholeheartedly thank you for not only reading my post but also for sharing your valuable opinion with me.

I'll apply for undergraduate engineering program at National University of Singapore (NUS) on 2014. By the benevolent help of the admission office, I've known that I need to score 2300 individually in SAT 1 and SAT 2 subject tests to make my application competitive. I've around 1.2 yours to earn it and I believe I've the capability to achieve it. In case of subject tests, I will take Physics and chemistry along with Math level 2. My first objective is SAT 1. I've decided to purchase Kaplan, Barrons, Princeton and official SAT study guide for SAT 1 preparation. Do you think these study materials are going to be enough? I'll be exceedingly gratified if you please advice me regarding this matter. Kindly note that, I do not know the entire name of the books which I mentioned above. I cordially request you to let me know the whole name of the books so that I can ask my mom to buy those for me. I'll be glad if there is any other additional advice that you may have for me!

By the way, do you think 1.2 years is sufficient for both SAT 1 and SAT 2? Ohh! if you know about anything that might help me regarding NUS admission then please feel free to share it with me.. Thanks a lot .. Please accept my utmost gratitude in advance for your humble co-operation .. Have a lovely day

thecrazychimpz

Depends what you want to do.

dzzallday

I would suggest checking out this guide - it's really helpful:

Silverturtle's Guide to SAT and Admissions Success

There are also lots of other guides on the forums/discussions that could definitely be of help to you.

I think 1.2 years is definitely enough time if you commit yourself!

sylvan8798

I like the Barron's book because it has a large list of like 3500 vocab words. I would suggest starting with just 1 or 2 of the books (maybe Barron's and the official SAT). I can't tell you what will work for you, but what I would do (and I have taken many of these large-scale tests requiring long study).

I would get the books and then lay out a long-term plan. For example, taking the 3500 word list, I might say I have 60 weeks, so I need about 60 words/week. Maybe I want to spend 5 days a week working with the vocab list. That would be about 12 words at a time. A lot of the words I will already know, so I might need 10 minutes to read my 12 words and extract an excel file of the ones I need more work on, practice writing sentences with, etc. etc.

I would try to get an overview of the whole picture and plan out a modest study scheme that allowed me plenty of flex (after all 14 mos is a long time) but that kept me moving (don't cram all at end). I don't want to feel stressed if I miss a few days of work, but I don't want to end up not getting anything done.

The other thing I would do is to try to read a lot of books/articles/etc. that are considered well-written in the English language (Jane Eyre, for example). I would keep the computer/tablet/dictionary handy to look up words I didn't know and throw them in my vocab file. This is a great way to increase vocab and also to imprint on your mind what "good writing" looks and feels like.