<p>ACT in an hour…probably shouldn’t be on here ;)</p>
<p>@ATP: </p>
<p>My PSAT last year:</p>
<p>62 (?) CR
43 M
59 (?) W</p>
<p>Like I said earlier, I got</p>
<p>720 CR
630 M
690 W, would’ve gotten a 770 if my essay was a 12.</p>
<p>My studying has been taking an algebra II course, memorizing some vocab, taking a few practice tests (w/o really analyzing why stuff was right & wrong), & going thru PWNtheSAT in 2 weeks. If I’d gotten a 12, that’d be a ~500 bump in one year, without intense studying. You can do it.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>How is APUSH going for you guys (I am ready to kill the class)?</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone taking the ACT today!</p>
<p>APUSH is actually my favorite class - holding a 102 in the class (that’s weighted of course…) - I’m really lucky though because I have a great teacher!</p>
<p>I feel so behind, I’m not taking the SAT until May or June…</p>
<p>I’m taking it in January, then a prep class then again in March or May then if I need to again in October. In June I’m doing Sat II’s (Math 2, Chem, maybe English or French)</p>
<p>^ Nah don’t worry. I am taking in next semester as well. As are most of the smart kids at my school. </p>
<p>Although I know some people that took it in Oct and got 2300-2400. I’m so jealous.</p>
<p>I’m aiming for at least a 1700 on it.</p>
<p>@ATP: It’s certainly possible to raise your score a few hundred points. I went from a 2060 freshman year to a 2400 on the October 6th test (a 340 point increase!). Here’s my progression:</p>
<p>Freshman year: 205 PSAT → 2060 SAT
Sophomore year: 215 PSAT
Junior year: 2400 SAT</p>
<p>I spent a lot of time studying over the summer; I ended up getting through 14 practice tests (six taken all at once, the rest in sections). I probably could not have achieved a perfect score without Direct Hits Vocabulary, Meltzer’s Grammar Guide, Silverturtle’s Guide, and my sophomore year Math Analysis class (I learned a lot about problem solving). The key is to keep working and to always thoroughly review the problems you got wrong or were unsure of. Also, follow xiggi’s advice and ONLY use official practice tests. Good luck!</p>
<p>Congrats dude!</p>
<p>I would have gone with “dhajfnsjedkseishcdhd 2400 fhdhrnckeycndksjfjrhcm” as my traction to getting that</p>
<p>Thanks, GoodACTor! That’s pretty close to my actual reaction when I first viewed my scores.</p>
<p>@ArtsyGirl My APUSH class is pointless (I have a 118%) so I’m pretty much self studying APUSH. I feel like with enough studying, I can master the MC, but it’s the essays that I’m worried about, because we’ve only written three of them so far and my teacher hasn’t even graded them…</p>
<p>I’m taking it for the first time in January, then a prep class, then again in March or May, then in October if I need to. I’m taking Sat II’s in June (Math 2, Chem, French or English)</p>
<p>@studiousmaximus, congratulations on your perfect SAT score. Where does math analysis fit in in the math sequence, Algebra II >> Pre-Calculus >> Calculus?</p>
<p>^ Thank you! Math Analysis covers all of precalculus and the first part of calculus (differentiation). Basically, it’s a transition between Algebra II/Trig and Calculus BC.</p>
<p>We have Precal and analysis as one class but we don’t have a separate trig class. We do that in Precalq</p>
<p>@FollowTheReaper That is better then my class. I have an 93 which I am thrilled about since many people have a B or C, but also annoyed about since I try to maintain a 95 in my classes. We have not done a single DBQ or essay despite being 8 chapters into the textbook and even though I understand the material I doubt I will do well on the MC since the questions are weird and we learn all the material are selves. Basically I just hate everything that has to do with the class.</p>
<p>Well, at least I’m not alone with hating my APUSH class, haha. Sure I have a a 118%, but honestly if you don’t have above a 100% in that class you’re just not even trying…</p>
<p>We’re on Chapter 13 in The Pageant right now. Our units are usually split up into 2-5 chapters. For the first week of the unit, we have to speed through the textbook and take notes on each chapter every night, and then we have a quiz the next class. Meanwhile, she “lectures” on what we’ve learned 2-3 weeks ago, so we’ve already learned the new unit within a week, yet we don’t move on for a few more weeks because we waste time “learning” about what we’ve already had a unit test on. All of her quiz/test questions can be found online, and those who don’t study/go online just cheat in class and she doesn’t even notice. We get an extra credit point for every page of notes that we take. We waste half of our class time doing stupid activities. And as I’ve already said, she doesn’t even grade our essays; she thinks it’s more important to learn how to brainstorm for them, rather than to learn how to write an actually essay. She has about a 20% pass right. Everyone in the class is already having nightmares of the AP test…</p>
<p>^My friends are also complaining about APUSH. In my old school, there are often 40-50 pages of outlining a night and it’s just an insane amount of work.</p>
<p>Congrats Studious! I hope to successfully emulate you this coming Saturday! 
I am using Melzer’s guide in the hopes of improving my writing score; she is remarkably thorough. Math and CR went well enough last time, so I’m going to try and stay focused and just do practice problems for those sections. The hardest part for me is remembering geometry tricks and techniques, since I took that class in middle school and we don’t really continue to use geometry in further math courses.</p>
<p>My AP WH teacher assigns a ridiculous amount of work, too but I think students do really learn the material properly. The curriculum itself bothers me more than the teacher though- it’s ridiculously general! You can’t just sum up 2 great civilizations in a few pages! I always end up feeling like I’m lying or making stuff up. -_-</p>