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PSAT Soph: 180
PSAT Jun: 208

no studying, just tried harder/checked work

Grain

SAT november 06: 2140
SAT January 07: 2350

stanford_dreamer

PSAT junior: 193
January SAT junior: 2230

shahwaiz69

October '06 SAT- 1900 (M-610, CR-560, W-740) 11 Essay
January '07 SAT- 2260 (M-760, CR-760, W-740) 11 Essay

JANUARY SAT WAS TOOO GOOD TO BE TRUEE!!!!!...1520/1600 I couldnt believe it!

Ryanone

Last year my daughter took the SAT at age 11 to get into a gifted program - she scored a 1530 total.

This year she took it at 12 to get into a different gifted program, and scored a 1930.

400 point increase

NotMamaRose

Did those of you who did a lot of practice tests spend a lot of time going meticulously over the ones you got wrong and why? I am told that if a person does enough practice tests and pays attention to the answers, certain (for want of a better word) patterns emerge. In other words, you learn about how the tests are worded/what they are looking for, etc. Is that the case?

bananaphone

I had an 1850 (550M 650 CR 650 W) from April 06' and I took a practice test 7 days before the next test and memorized all the vocabulary from Princeton Review's HIt List in their prep book.

I increased to a 2090 (600M 750CR 740W). I didnt prepare for writing/reading at all besides vocab, however I think w/ more practice I could have gotten 50 points higher in math

When you take practice tests, the learning comes from seeing what you put down and how you came to that answer compared to what the actual answer says. By just doing a section at a time, timed or untimed, and then reviewing every answer, even the ones you got right, you do learn a lot.

LadyLou

^^

I found the biggest help was to subscribe to the online course and see the actualsolutio,not just the answer for every question i got wrong. Really helped my writing score (680improved to 780) becuase before I had no idea why I was getting them wrong half the time.

aritct

my improvement was just strange, just strange
The first time I took the SAT my scores were just bad (except for math).
Cr - 660
The second time I took the SAT i studied my ass off for CR, because I was getting like 700-740 in the blue book practice test and I really wanted to do well in CR
result => CR - 660 (NO CHANGE!)
Man, it was like the CR section just had something against me........and when I took it the second time CR was just hard.....
But my over all total was ok (2120) so I sent my scores to the colleges.
Then I saw the January SAT coming up and I wanted to give it another shot (really wanted an 800 in MATH). So I registered.
Started studying like 2 days before the exam because I had no tension. I mean, if it was bad I wouldn't be sending my scores right?
haha
Third time was funny.
Cr - 750 (no practice, just a bit of word list on the day before the exam)
and my MATH dropped lol.

[ok ok I admit before my second SAT i solved most of the blue book papers,did Barron's SAT 2400(which is really good for the writing section; and so is SparkNotes) and SparkNotes (including the 1000 word list, which is just awesome, I would recommend it to everybody. Almost all the words come from that list) and I studied my ass off. lol I guess the studying took some time before it finally affected me (like 4 months xD) ]

helpneededrtenow

147 (PSAT soph yr), 204 (PSAT junior), 2210 (SAT junior)

Jeremybeach

165 (PSAT jun. year)

1st SAT was worse: (410 CR, 510 M, 610 W)
2nd SAT no prep: (520 CR, 550 M, 610 W)
3rd SAT no prep: (570 CR, 600 M, 690 W)

All I can tell you is that chocolate works WONDERS! And this ,my friend, is not BS at all whatsoever. It is huge megadoses of caffeine; So, if you take a large chocolate bar (bigger than the standard hersheys) bring it with you on test day, have a HUGE chunk before the test, and at each break have alot more. It seriousyl does work wonders (i'm living proof)...it won't make you smarter, but it helps you focus SOO much

lildude3077

I took the SAT in 8th grade- (630M/550V)
I retook it in January this year (Junior)- (700CR/660M/650W), 9 Essay

Not only was I astounded on how low my writing was (It was a 63 for Multiple choice, but even though I'm so much better at math than I was before (I'm in BC Calc this year), my score improved only 30 points. I'm falling for the same stupid tricks. Normally, I'm much better at math; maybe this was just a bad test- my PSAT was 67R/73M/69.

mylifedepends

first practice test: 1750
first SAT: 1870
3rd sat: 2090


still upset with results...

mavman100

whAtAts thE biggEst jump sEEn on tE sAt's A kid in my school wEnt from 1970to 2300

mavman100

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