<p>Hey,
This may, my SAT scores were as follows:
M: 650
CR: 660
W: 690 (12 on essay)</p>
<p>I am looking at many of the higher tier colleges (Northwestern, Amherst, Bowdoin, Williams, etc.), though not necessarily the Ivies. These scores are obviously not good enough, but I have 3-4 months to study. How can I break the 700 threshold? I just want an overall better score, with certain emphasis upon math, as it has always been my problem suit. A 2150 would be grand. Is this possible for me? If so, how can I do it? Thanks in advance :D</p>
<p>look at why you are getting questions wrong, the issue is specific to you. Go through a practice test without a time limit and really just try to understand all of the questions/answers, and what you are missing for the ones you got wrong
a lot of people look at the questions before reading and then read only parts relating to the question before answering on the ones where they can do that. You probably should look up any words like theme, voice, tone or whatever and examples of them/readthe SAT explanation if you don’t understand what they are looking for sometimes when thy ask you about it. Also, read a lot, any reading analysis is a lot about seeing what the author does different from the norm that was chosen to mean something, Also, it sounds simple but reading speed makes a big difference.
The blue book is really accurate, esp. if you get the most recently released one.
With math, I personally didn’t write out my work well enough and tried to do mental math when I shouldn’t have. Sometimes you may forget an important equation, or accidentally switch up domain and range. You may actually have to go back and go over a certain subject area if you often get questions relating to it wrong. The SAT website is a good resource, but so is your old textbook or just the internet.
I would say try on your own before tutoring, at least so you know what your problems are and what you need to learn,(do you need to write your work more clearly, do you need to learn more about functions, are you forgetting certain equations) otherwise they might be lazy and assume to just teach you through the generic or most common problems or just have you take a bunch of practice tests, which you can do on your own. Try it, especially if you like learning in amore social atmos., but don’t go and just expect it to work, it might not. Know what you want to get from them.
lol copy and paste from different posts, I need to get off this forum</p>
<p>^LOL! Yeah you might need to get off… :P</p>