<p>I did some prep over the summer and took at least 5-6 of them. On the last 3 I consistently got 2040s (-.-). I took the october sats and got a 1970. I tried the waiting method in which I just didnt look at sats for like 2 months. I just took a collegeboard practice test and got a 2030… im taking the sats in march. Should I just accept my score?</p>
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<p>Bumpp</p>
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<p>It’s of course possible that you’ve reached your potential and 2000 or so is your best score. It’s also possible that you are not approaching your practice systematically and in depth. Taking a 2 month pause was probably unwise. Improvement rarely occurs without effort or some new input.</p>
<p>In your score range taking test after test is not the best strategy. You’ve gone past the stage of test timing and test familiarity. What you need to do is identify your “gaps” and “weaknesses” and address them.</p>
<p>There are many recipes for how to best do this. My sense is they all boil down to this. Take one test, and review the results critically. Cross out all the questions for which you (a) got the right answer, AND (b) you had no doubt whatsoever that the answer was right. Then work with the questions that you got wrong, didn’t answer, guessed at, or were not confident in your answer. You need to be brutally honest with this list. Work with these. Perhaps someone (a teacher, parent, tutor, fellow student who is good with SAT questions) can help create questions for you that are similar to the ones that fell into the second category. Or use a practice book (other than the Blue Book) to find analogous questions. Work with these until you “get” the reason for the answer, until you address whatever gap you had. This phase can easily take 2-3 weeks between practice tests. Proceed slowly and methodically. Keep the Blue Book tests for the next practice and repeat.</p>
<p>My intuition is that you should reschedule your March test to much later in the year. Perhaps June and even October.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I second what fogcity said. It seems like you aren’t sure what your weaknesses are right now, and you need to work hard to understand them. Usually a third party will be able to help elucidate what is wrong.</p>
<p>The gap from 2000 to 2200+ is definitely a big gap to cover, but it isn’t impossible. I would recommend you re-take some of the tests you have taken before to see if you can improve on them.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>Fogcity, should I retake old collegeboard tests? Also should I take new tests ( from the online course) first or retake my old tests? Thanks</p>
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<p>Bump</p>
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