Avoiding Careless Mistakes on the SAT

glasshours
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:23:48 +0000

I’ve taken 6 practice tests in the blue book so far, and my dilemma is that I always end up making careless errors or get questions wrong that I could have gotten right if I thought about it more, especially in the math and writing sections. Not so much for CR, but when I’m reading the CollegeBoard’s explanations, I completely understand why X answer choice is correct and mine was not.

I think that I could improve my CR score a lot with practice, but I’m not sure how to approach math and writing anymore. I don’t know whether I should do the questions as fast as I can and go back to every single question to check, or if I should do the problem twice as I’m going along. I usually have 5~8 minutes remaining on each section, so I’m scared I’ll run out of time if I do either or only get to check half of my answers.

Any insight is appreciated, thanks!