How to get the next jump in SAT

koalasium
Sat, 29 Jul 2017 03:49:57 +0000

Well, short-term, practice tests are kind of the best way to prepare. They give you all these prep classes and such, but really, all you really need to do is get accustomed to the question patterns.

Long-term, the best way (in my opinion) to improve is to expose yourself to literature. Reading newspapers, scientific/political magazines, and unabridged classics are good ways to expose yourself to all types of sentence structure and commonly used vocab. It will also help with grammar because most of the time, these articles or books are written without grammar mistakes in the literary sense. If you’re struggling with the foundations of grammar (such as tense, plurality, pronouns, or possession), then the SAT prep books usually help (such as the Barron’s writing book for the new SAT). And practice is really how I got accustomed to the SAT questions, so it’s an idea if you need to improve (and by practice I don’t mean just doing a weekly 4-hour practice test, and doing nothing else for the rest of the week; I mean that you use tools like Khan Academy or prep books to try to improve during the week, analyze the types of questions you’re missing, practice those weak sections hardcore, and then using a practice test for verification; otherwise, it’s a waste of a good 4-hours and a good practice test).