How can I get a 2400?

mathmom
Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:08:11 +0000

My kids read really fast, so they read the passages before answering questions. At least for my older son that resulted in an 800 score. (He did get a few wrong.) The math you HAVE to get every single one right. My older son whose strength is math never got an 800, because he always made careless mistakes. Read the questions carefully and make sure you do every step. The always got the really easy fourth grade level things wrong. For the essay, I think some of the threads here are quite helpful. Practice writing essays under the time limit. Have a list of things that you can pull on for likely themes of the essay. (Ghandi, MLK, Gilded Age, Huckleberry Finn, Great Gatsby, personal examples (that as a prevous poster said can be complete fiction.) Review the grammar. The one that tripped my sons up regularly was parallel construction.

Post #17 is right. Top scores aren’t everything. Once you get past a certain threshold (somewhere around 2200) - your ECs, recommendations and essays are much more important than your numbers.