How high can you typically raise your scores?

learningbirdy
Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:55:13 +0000

First off, I know this is last minute, but yes this is for the Oct. 11th test.
I took the SAT the January of sophomore year ('13-'14) and am now going for my fall of junior year ('14-'15) SAT. My mother did not allow me to study for the 10th grade SAT, as she was treating it like a PSAT but with actual writing. I also have chronic sinus issues, and had a nasty sinus infection on test day. I didn’t double check anything, finished most sections quickly (I normally finish before time but take time to check) and actually took catnaps between when I finished and when time was called. Needless to say I didn’t do so hot. 590 CR, 520 M, and 490 writing, 1600 total. I only need CR+M together, and I need a score of at least 1290, right now I have 1110. I really want to stress I NEED this, it’s for Bright Futures, which is basically the easiest FL res. scholarship, but since I’m legally classified as a homeschool student I have to make that score as opposed to a slightly lower one (If I go for the lower one I have to prove my transcripts, which won’t work, as I’ll explain soon)
I did FLVS (FL virtual school) for HS because I wanted to dual enroll full time starting junior year, and I did. I have 4 college classes, and one AP. The college ones are fairly manageable, just lots of reading, and one professor who is seriously under qualified, but I’m managing. The AP is online, and has a fair amount of busywork, but is also manageable. This is all great, and since I do FLVS and dual enrollment, I’d have no issue proving transcripts (providing them from an actual institution), except I literally can not. One example is English, I did Eng I, II, and then AP Eng Lang, and whenever I only got a 3 on the Eng Lang test I went to the college I am now dual enrolled at and CLEPed it so I would get out of comp I and II. This means that unless I want to force myself to take English IIII or another AP Eng course I don’t need, I pretty much need this score. The same can be said for math, and science (I CLEPed a few different things over the summer, and those don’t count towards the transcripts that bright futures wants)
As I said, my classes are fairly manageable what is not manageable was I didn’t study until the 22nd for the SAT (I was going to start the 14/15th, right after my ACT, but hurrah! I was sick for that, too, and I took a week to get back to the point where I could actually focus again). I’m signed up for the SAT on the 11th, and have been doing 4 hours or so of studying per day, except Tuesday’s, (T/R Classes and required volunteer hours Tues. night prevent that from happening). I guess this post was really unorganized but basically I have a few main questions:

1. If my baseline, no studying, being sick, is 1600 total, 1110 for CR/M, do you think I could get a fairly nice total and at least 1290 CR/M? Have you seen something like that before?

2. How do I handle studying with 4 college classes, 1 AP class, and the fact that I still need some personal time (I’ve literally started breaking down in the middle of studying from how stressful all of this courseload feels)

3. Any tips for taking the test while sick? I’ve been to the ENT multiple times and taken many many doses of antibiotics, and actually just had a CT scan today/blood work done, but the results/solution will not be back until after the test.

I know SAT/ACT are very different, but my ACT score with a month of studying and slight sickness was 28 (needed a 29), went for a retake, totally awful infection just like the first SAT, crammed the week before but still had that base from the first test, got a 27, superscored it’s still a 28 but I raised the math subscore by 2 points.
Just for reference my (good) ACT subscores were:
Reading- 33
Math- 25
English- 29
Science-25
I know there’s no science on the SAT, but do you think those ACT scores I got while I was feeling better may reflect on how I’ll do on the SAT with studying/a healthy mind?
I’m honestly just very stressed over this upcoming test and don’t know how to deal with it or what I can do to make it better (it being the stress and the score)