<p>would it be an intelligent course of action to concentrate on regular sats for the rest of my junior year, than after studying over the summer and being done with regular Sats, take the subject tests in OCtober of my senior year?</p>
<p>I think it would be</p>
<p>no.
take the SAT subject tests in the subjects you take junior year right after ur junior year</p>
<p>ex. if u take US history then take the SAT II for that subject in june after ur junior year right after uve taken the course when its fresh on ur mind.</p>
<p>dont wait til the last minute
and i recommend only taking one at a time.</p>
<p>i took bio after my freshman year. chem after sophomore. us history after junior. i think its better more spread out.</p>
<p>it doesn’t take that long to study for the sat reasoning. once you reach a certain level, you can’t improve much more, so i don’t think it’s wise to devote an entire year to studying for it. three months at most.</p>
<p>it doesn’t take that long to study for the sat reasoning. once you reach a certain level, you can’t improve much more, so i don’t think it’s wise to devote an entire year to studying for it. three months at most.</p>
<p>it’s so sad that you think that way mechrocket. There is no horizontal asymptote to the amount that you can improve on the SAT.</p>
<p>two months for SAT I and 3 months for SAT II. But don’t take my word for it; I suck at SATs.</p>
<p>I kind of agree with MechRocket. I mean, (to me at least) there’s a certain “limit” you can achieve if you want to study without stressing yourself out, devoting hours and hours and hours upon more hours to studying, memorizing thousands of vocab words, and practicing math problems that you know how to do but always mess up. Maybe it’s kind of an excuse for me to study less, but I still like to think of SAT as an aptitude test, so I don’t want to push myself to get those last 40-50 points if it means another month of intense prep.</p>
<p>To the OP, I would take the subject tests after you finish a class during your junior year and also take the SAT once. Then you can prep over the summer to take the SAT once again senior year, and maybe one more time if you still want to improve your score. Also, take the subject tests that you’ve already taken classes for (i.e. Math level 2, if you’ve already taken pre-calc).</p>
<p>Yup, I agree. Subject tests after junior year, use the summer to study for SAT reasoning.</p>
<p>j. shi - i know what you’re talking about. there are ways you can improve your actual math, reading, and writing skills, but people on collegeconfidential do not seem to care about this at all. instead of buying actual math books to study from to improve their geometry and algebra skills, they’re buying prep books - condensed information containing only a certain type of problems that will never be applicable elsewhere other than the sats. </p>
<p>it IS possible to continue to improve your sat scores, but if you only use prep books i doubt this will ever happen. you have to make an effort to build/rebuild your skills from ground zero. sadly, prep books are shortcuts for everyone except for those who already have a certain skill level, for those who just need to practice a few problems in order to get ready (750+ people, i’d say).</p>