<p>About how long would you guess is a good time frame to study for the Sat and get about a 1900-2400?</p>
<p>I think that i wont have time to study for the June sat’s because of a heavy class schedule and exams are during that time… So i plan to take the Sat’s in october.<br>
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<p>Your question is pretty inane. . . First of all, it takes some people years to get a craptastic score and some people days to get a fantastic score. Second of all, 1900-2400 is incredibly vague. Only ~2 out of 30,000 people get a 2400, whereas ~3,600 get a 1900+. Third of all, we don’t know what score you’re starting out with.</p>
<p>Ditto that.</p>
<p>Lol, i’ll third that. 1900-2400?</p>
<p>If I were you I would take a practice test from collegeboard, buy prep books and study for about one or two hours a day for one or two weeks (this is during the summer right?) then take another practice test and measure your improvement using improvements in PERCENTILE (you can find charts to distinguish between different 99+ scores) and using this as a benchmark you can plan out the rest of your study schedule, if any more studying is necessary to reach your 1900 goal.</p>
<p>ok i mean at least a 1900.
I am not asking what you think my score will be if i study x amount of time. I just want to know the average time that someone prepped for the Sat that got at leeast a 1900.
Like did they study a week? month? 3 months before the test date?
I have about 15 practice tests from College Board to study from and will be considering a prep course.</p>
<p>Well, you have two choices:</p>
<p>1) Waste 4 hours of your time taking a practice test without any prep to see where you stand, tell us your score, and then finally receive your approximate answer, which still won’t mean much considering our lack of knowledge regarding your study aptitude.</p>
<p>2) Just start studying until you hit your mark. Then when you hit it, take the real thing.</p>
<p>go through a book with strategies then take a test and if u read all these strats and understand them u will probably get 19+ (the Princeton review crack one works)</p>
<p>to get even higher just start doing practice sections (the more the better)</p>
<p>One lesson (perhaps the biggest lesson) I learned from my music teacher in middle school: it doesn’t matter how long you’ve practiced. At the end of the day, the question is this: Can you play it or not? You need to practice and practice and it doesn’t matter how long, but until you can finally play the music. GENIUS IS ONE PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION!</p>
<p>To get a reality check, here’s what you do:</p>
<ul>
<li>Take a practice test, preferably from the blue book.</li>
<li>Go over your results, and see what you messed up on.</li>
<li>Think about what skills you don’t know</li>
<li>Then set a realistic time frame for how long it’ll take to learn those skills and how to improve.</li>
</ul>
<p>One of my friends, now a sophomore in high school, keeps freaking out about the PSAT, because she wants to get the “prestige” associated with it and the money. I told her that $2,500 seems like a lot, but if you win a few local scholarships you’ll be able to make that much. Prestige? By college no one will even care!</p>
<p>The SAT is supposed to test your skills, not how well you’ve studied for it. If you have the skills, you won’t really need to study for the SAT itself. It’s like taking a very easy graduation placement test (Washington state has a test that everyone is supposed to pass in order to graduate); if you know everything, why study? </p>
<p>The friend I mentioned kept asking me, “How did you get that score? How many hours a week did you study?” I told her none, except I prepped a little a few weeks before the test. She didn’t believe me. She was expected some number like 3 hours a week. 3 hours a week for what?? To learn a few grammar rules and some ways to manipulate numbers? She responded by saying that she was asking one of the Language Arts teachers to help her every week with grammar and that she was going to start reading the newspaper everyday, just for the PSAT ! I told her that the LA teacher probably doesn’t have the time for that, and that you should be reading the newspaper because it’s good for you, not because you need it to boost your SAT score. I told her to list what skills she needed to have, and that if you can’t understand a newspaper article or use mathematical logic and reasoning to solve problems (more like puzzles and brain teasers, really), how will you survive at some big-name school? </p>
<p>That’s the reality check. The SAT should measure (although it really doesn’t) your reasoning skills and your basic reading, math, and writing skills, which you are going to need in college. If you have these skills you should do fine on the SAT, just like a high-achieving high schooler won’t need to study for a graduation test since he/she will know everything already. And it’s these skills that you’ll probably need in the university. And so you shouldn’t necessarily be just studying for the SAT. You should think of it as gaining necessary skills–that’s ultimately what you should be working on.</p>
<p>We don’t know if you’re, currently, scoring in the 1400s or the 1800s… more information would help don’t you think…</p>
<p>lol 1900-2400…i can not study at all and get like a 2200…considering i didn’t study and got a 235 on the PSAT. so my answer to your question is to not study</p>
<p>“lol 1900-2400…i can not study at all and get like a 2200…considering i didn’t study and got a 235 on the PSAT. so my answer to your question is to not study”</p>
<p>Well, not all of us are liars-I mean geniuses.</p>
<p>az1698: lol… it is funny how she took the time to italicize not… brag much?</p>
<p>fine, i do not study thru books and other stuff. but what I do in school is another story (our math/english department over-prepares us so much that things like SATs are pretty trivial). So it goes for most of the other people in my school, too (or those who are actually taking advantage of the hard classes)</p>
<p>sorry</p>
<p>We can’t give you a definite answer or even a benchmark until you tell us what you’re scoring now. The amount of prepping is different for everybody, because everyone starts out with a different “inherent” score- as in the score they can get without prep. That’s why I suggested for you to take a practice test, prep for a specified amount of time, and record your improvement- so you can see how much help that amount of studying is, and calculate what would be the right amount of time for you to reach your goal. It probably wouldn’t help you for me to tell you that I scored in the 2200s in middle school without prep- or how somebody else got 1900 after a year of prep- because it’s different for everyone.</p>
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… narcissistic much?
studying may or may not help-- just do practice tests and get familiar with the testing format.</p>