How do people do so well on the math sections?

Joan52
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:14:21 +0000

Some people just think mathematically…

I paid a ton of money for my daughter to take a prep course and the best she did in math was 620.

My son refused to take the prep course, refused to look at the books from the prep course, refused to do the free on line tests or course and went into the PSAT cold. He got a 76 and we are waiting for the March SAT scores to see how those went (he again did not study or review).

My son is a very good math student, an excellent chess player and such a logical, black and white thinker that I sometimes call him Mr. Spock. My daughter is more of an empath, she has people skills that my son does not.

I do think you can improve your grades by studying. My DD went up 100 points in math from the course although she confessed that she did no other studying besides going to the course and doing the HW, no extra tests or practices… Had she, she might have done better. I also think there are just some people, like my son, who are good at math.

It also has to do with what level math you have learned. My son is in advanced honors so at this point, he is in calc AB equivalent math while my daughter, in junior year, was in regular pre-calc. He obviously has had exposure to materials in math that she did not.