<p>I took the SAT in june and got a 2030/1370(700M/670CR/660W). My goal is 2300(with at least 800M). How many practice tests do you think this will take?</p>
<p>I got 1800 on my first practice test, and haven’t taken any real sat yet. But I’m taking the October SAT test and SATII and in Nov.
I’m aiming for the 2100+. thinks that it’s good for a foreigner.</p>
<p>Its not about the number of practice tests, its how you learn from them. I got a 1760 on my first practice tests, after going over it carefully, my score was up to 1930 by the second test. (Both Blue Book CB tests) The most important thing is to go over everything you got wrong and reasoning why a certain answer is right and why your answer is wrong. You wont raise your score at all by taking a certain amount of practice… only by how you use the tests you took.</p>
<p>Ditto what venator said. Also, did you prepare for the June test or just went in cold? If you prepared, 2030-2300 will be a bit of a reach.</p>
<p>For math and writing, practice will help but not tremendously… for math, just get a book and clear up any rough edges you have trouble with… for writing, if its the MCs you have trouble with, read a grammar book, or if its the essay read some novels that can be used in essays (look on other threads for examples of good novels) and pool examples from history.</p>
<p>For CR, practice is EXTREMELY important… do a lot of practice sections (just CR)</p>
<p>That’s a 270 point improvement…let’s say this: as you improve, you’ll notice it’ll be harder to keep improving at the same rate.</p>
<p>My main goal is to get my math score up to at least 750, since I’m applying to CS schools, and they mostly care about math. For me(kind of luckily I guess), the problems I have with the math section are almost always misreading something, and I find the math relatively easy to do(partly thanks to my ti-89 
), so I think that practice there will help.</p>
<p>CR I’m kind of scared of. Practicing for CR is the thing I hate the most(you have to read through long boring passages). At least for math, there’s not a lot of reading; you can just look at the problem and start planning out approaches to it. I’d be happy with a superscore of 750M/700CR/700W, but obviously I’d like to get it as high as possible.</p>
<p>^ I haven’t taken the SAT yet, but I have been practicing CR a lot. I know exactly how you feel. I hated reading long passages because I always had the mindset that oh…it’s going to be on some long boring topic and i have to read it all, and bla bla… What i suggest for that is that you either divide it up into sections, or look at the first question , and if it is a specific question, read up to that line. That way you don’t have to read the WHOLE passage at one time, and it can help you have your mind refreshed for the questions. And try to get interested in the passages. I had lots of trouble with that, but once I started reading books in general, it helped me get myself into the passage a lot more, but then if the passage is really abstruse than I usually loose interest. In that case, I’d just suggest go to the questions and then go to the first paragraph and skim till you get two or so lines before the text and then focus… so when you skim you get the jist(sp?) of it.
Also…the proof is ALWAYS in the passage. Take an untimed section and make sure you make yourself look for proof.
So this advice might or might not be useful to you, but it has been certainly useful to me. I have been getting less questions wrong by practicing this, although I have not taken the SAT.</p>