<p>Hello,
I’m currently a Junior. In the beginning of my sophomore year, I had scored a low 1580 on my PSAT (well, low for a CC user).
Now, as a Junior, I scored a high 2220 on the College Board Mock SAT (got the test administered at a local test prep company, unfortunately, I was ill on the PSAT test date).</p>
<p>Freshman Year GPA: 2.5
Sophomore Year GPA: 4.0
Junior Year GPA: 4.15</p>
<p>If any of you have questions on how I was able to change my grades and with that, my PSAT scores, feel free to ask!</p>
<p>And no, I’m not gonna reply with, “try harder, study more.”</p>
<p>What strategies did you use to get that score, and where did you find them? My PSAT dropped 7 points on the PSAT, 70 points on the SAT scale, even though I took a practice test the day before and it was 11 points higher than the 2nd PSAT I took. I even took a practice SAT that is the equivalent of 15 PSAT points higher. Maybe I had a bad day that day, but that’s not a good excuse.</p>
<p>I have been getting much higher grades than I was before, though. My school uses a 100 point scale, but I think if you convert it to an unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale, it would be:</p>
<p>Freshman Year: 3.0 4 Honors classes
Sophomore Year 3.513 2 Honors classes
Junior Year 1st Quarter: 3.643 Only 1 AP class, sadly, but I am in a Physics 2 class which comprises of mostly Seniors</p>
<p>Your low PSAT, in my opinion, was probably just a fluke. You might have just been stressing too hard over it. The Silverturtle’s SAT guide says to “Find the appropriate balance between calmness and arousal.” You might have been too “aroused.” For example, I took a mock SAT a few weeks after I had gotten my Sophomore PSAT score back, and I actually did worse by a few points, because I was freaking out about it.</p>
<p>Well, for me, I didn’t really “study” or “practice” for the SAT. Instead, I just took the knowledge that would needed to be applied onto the SAT, and used it in my daily life. For example, when I usually type, or write to someone in general, I write as nicely as possible- in order to strengthen my writing skills. Also, a major contributor to my math score, was the SAT question of the day. It really helps! You can get it on your phone.</p>
<p>Thank you for the reply. Yes, I practice on the SAT Question of the Day, but I tend to only go back to it week after week, so I usually have a large chunk of them to do in one sitting. Maybe a consistent one question a day will always keep my mind in somewhat of an SAT mode. Also, I have bought the Princeton Review Book for the SAT, with 10 practice tests for the SAT, but I haven’t really been living up to my standards. I was planning to take one practice test a weekend and spread one out over the week, but I have only done one full one, and I have just taken a bunch of Math sections in other ones. The problem is I think about strategies on the SAT too much while I don’t practice them a whole lot. I got a 1940 on one I took 4 weeks ago, and if you superscore different sections I have taken, it is about a 2000, which is alright, but it is nowehere near the score that I am hoping for and need. My school has an SAT class every Saturday and I have to sign up by tomorrow, but I am not sure, because I’d have to kiss one of the meetings. Maybe it would help to counteract my kind of paltry work ethic.</p>
<p>My intended Major in college is Physics, so the Math section is very important, but I keep on getting 690s on the Math section. I think one reason is that I tend to not look at the questions I got wrong and why I got them wrong.</p>
<p>An SAT practice test every weekend sounds really cool, and useful! I think I’ma adopt that method and start doing that myself!</p>
<p>I honestly recommend doing an SAT question of the day every day. I mean, if you’re gonna do a whole chunk of them, might as well take the test. It’s a healthy one minute SAT question style refresher every day, and is extremely helpful (at least for me!).
A 690 in math, to me, seems like a great place to start your Junior year! That’s very close to a 700! Maybe even just one question away.
I’m currently in Algebra II (I had to take Alg 1 three times, aced it every time) which shows, I think, that the math portion of the SAT is fairly simple (got a 740). In other words, it’s not that hard to raise your score in it.</p>
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