<p>For all you people saying the blue book is good, do you mean just using the blue book tests, or the blue book strategies as well?</p>
<p>Well the strategies suck, I wouldn’t call them strategies, but the tests are very similar to what’ll come up on test day.</p>
<p>what is that blue book is it the official sat i only got 1650 ineed help please !!!</p>
<p>i neeed help i only got 1650</p>
<p>It’s the book “The Official SAT Study Guide” which contains 8 practice tests.</p>
<p>But, frankly, the book without the Online Course is in my opinion worthless for it doesn’t provide explanations. But with the Online Course it’s an unbeatable way of test prepp.</p>
<p>You could use the Blue Book and the Maximum SAT book which provides detailed explanations for the BB tests.</p>
<p>keep them going now that everyone got their sat score</p>
<p>PSAT Sophomore year: 180
PSAT Junior year: 186
SAT Dec. Junior year: 1910
SAT June Junior year: 2160</p>
<p>Uhm…I slept more before my June test. I did 2 practice tests the week before, and that’s about it. I honestly regret not spending more time. October is my last chance. I will be religiously studying out of the Blue Book, McGraw-Hill for writing, Gruber’s for some math, Kaplan 2400 for writing. I also plan on finishing the Barron’s CR Workbook. I don’t have any SAT tutors nor do I attend a prep class. Self-studying = yay.</p>
<p>Oh, I agree with the remark above: Blue Book without the Online Course is useless.</p>
<p>PSAT freshman year: 198 –> PSAT sophmore year: 224 (227 junior year, but only a 2200 SAT 
Hoping for 2300+ this October)</p>
<p>I didn’t do any prep for these tests. I just think the math I learned in school freshman year really helped. I also had an English teacher who was really picky about grammar, which helped my writing score.</p>
<p>Is it possible to go from a 1490 to a 1950? If so, what should I use/get/do?</p>
<p>January SAT: 2190
June SAT: 2400</p>
<p>This was with no preparation for January. I then did the online course and Blue Book in between the two tests, but only three of the practice tests.</p>
<p>pretty random, went from 2190 to 2310 with no studying at all…guess i got lucky</p>
<p>Junior PSAT: 214 – M: 73, CR: 75, W: 66</p>
<p>Junior SAT (June 07): 2330 – M: 760, CR: 770, W: 800</p>
<p>Your guy’s success story gives me hope in my goal to raise my score from a 1790 to 2000+.</p>
<p>Junior PSAT - CR: 54 M: 56 W: 48, 158<br>
Junior SAT - CR: 670 M: 690 W: 660, 2020</p>
<p>PSAT: 194 [V: 62, M: 66, CR: 66]
SAT: 2170 [W: 710 (68,11), M: 710, CR: 750]</p>
<p>Not as big a leap as some others I’ve seen on this forum, but to me it was pretty good an improvement, 230 points.</p>
<p>PSAT sophomore: 198
PSAT junior: 208
SAT: 2130</p>
<p>Not that much of an increase, but it’s still there… I think just getting “older” will do you well score-wise, especially for CR, since you’re exposed to more vocabulary and literature throughout your high school careers.</p>
<p>Hopefully I can make be able to post in this thread with a huge increase in the future.</p>
<p>This is what I have.</p>
<p>SAT-8th grade<em>last version of old test</em> 1390 [660V & 730M]
Did a lot of math section practice tests because at that time I obviously<br>
had no life & thought it was fun. Read books to learn vocab.</p>
<p>ACT-9th grade 29 [24E, 35R, 29M, 26S]
No prep what so ever, except knowledge of test format.
I shudder at the English score.</p>
<p>Plan-10th grade 27 [25E, 27R, 29M, 28S -Estimated ACT Composite Range 28-32]
No prep, either. Test mandated for all tenth graders by my Midwest school.</p>
<p>PSAT-10 grade 198 [74CR/V, 70M, 54W]
No prep again. Okay so a little peeved at math score since I know I made a stupid mistake.
I shudder, suffer from a epileptic fit, and collapse at my Writing score. You can obviously see which does not belong. </p>
<p>I have come to believe this means I have a problem with grammer.My weakest subscore for the actual English section in the ACt in 9th grade was usage & mechanics. </p>
<p>It ****es me off. Does anyone have any advice for improving my Writing score on PSAT/SAT and my general English ACT score. Since it’s going to be my junior year the PSAT is really going to count, and if I could get my writing score up to at least 70 than i could get at least 218. I really want to make National merit semi-finalist. I’m also going to take the new SAT for the first time, so improving on the english area is important. </p>
<p>Any advice or study tips.
Not sure if my stats were any help since they don’t really have much progress except for Verbal scores. That would be due to acquisition of an even larger vocabulary in 9th grade when I got to independently study vocab in my English class instead of doing it with the class. Oh and reading books.</p>
<p>Wow I can’t believe ****. P I S S is considered a curse word.</p>