Hi, I’ll be taking the sat in June and I’m worried. I’m a junior in high school. I have a unweighted ga of 93 and weighted of about 97. I’m 33/494 students. And I’ve took two PSATs (sophomore and junior year) and got 145 and 155. I have a terrible test anxiety and find myself spending to much time on one problem then rushing through the rest. I barley finish the sections and I struggle the most on critical reading, then math then writing.
I’m trying to get an 1800-2000 on the sat. Any advice or tips ? Has someone like me been through this to?
*too *barely (although it might be auto correct)
Time management is pretty important - you will usually want to skip questions that you can’t immediately solve within ~30 seconds to a minute.
A nice CR strategy for long passages is to look at the questions first, answer ones that refer to line numbers (e.g. in line 3, …), and read around those intervals. This saves you the time spent reading the entire passage first, then going back to the passage while answering questions.
Any tips for completing the sentence? What’s the best way to study for the math?
Eh, for me, vocab/sentence completions were the hardest to improve on. I have a pretty good (but not excellent) vocabulary, which was enough to do most of the vocab ones.
For math, what types of questions are you missing, and why? Are you missing them due to not knowing/remembering the topic, or careless mistake, or too slow?
So is because I ran out of time to get to them other are really just trouble remembering
I would recommend improving on writing first, while also working math, and then work on critical reading. Writing is commonly known as the easiest subject to improve on. Learn all the grammar rules, and you should be fine. Try practicing math question from the Blue book as much as possible, and avoid making silly mistakes by paying attention to the questions. Finally, for critical reading, rather than trying to find the correct answer choice, try to eliminate all the incorrect answer choices until you come to what seems to be the correct one. Studying vocab will take your critical reading score to another level. Good Luck, I know you can do this!
Thank you, I definitely needed to hear that.