<p>Oh my god! You do not know how much I hate the SAT right now!! I took the May test and got 470 CR, 540 M, and 580 W with a 10 essay. That’s a 1590 right there and I have been taking SAT classes for 3 months…I was certain that I would get a 1700+ but nope…a 1590 is too low for me! I honestly hate the CR as I’m always stuck in the 470-490 range! I will be taking the June SAT as well but I feel like my score won’t improve much! ■■■!</p>
<p>So? Switch to the ACT.</p>
<p>Swishbig,</p>
<p>Keep fighting! Over the next 9 days focus on the little things you can do to get yourself in a position to do better on June 2nd.</p>
<p>(1) Think about your strategy as you do a couple practice tests - make sure you are attacking the sections with the right goal in mind. </p>
<p>If your goal is 550 CR 600 M 600 W, for example, that means you need to get</p>
<p>approximately 38/67 CR points (57%)</p>
<p>approximately 37/54 Math points (67%)</p>
<p>approximately 35/49 Writing points (70%)</p>
<p>So this means you should really only be answering about 70% of the reading questions, 75-80% of the math questions and 80-85% of the writing questions. By attacking the sections with these numbers in mind, you can effectively increase the amount of time you have per question that you do. </p>
<p>On a 24 question reading section, you should feel comfortable leaving about 7 questions blank. Spend your time on the passages answering the questions that seem “easier” to you. Focus on the questions that only ask you about 2-3 lines of text that you can really dig in and figure out. Always answer the “most nearly means” questions, for example.</p>
<p>(2) Learn as many vocabulary words as you possibly can. If you have the Barron’s hit list you can make notecards with those words - just plow through as many words as you can in the next 9 days. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch download </p>
<p>The Daily Word </p>
<p>it’s a vocab app that has about 1,000 words and a notecard builder that lets you create notecard stacks for the words you want to study. You obviously won’t have time to learn them all before June 2, but you can start plowing through the words alphabetically and try to learn as many as you can. You could probably add 60 - 70 points to your score just from vocab alone. </p>
<p>(3) Look over all your old practice tests you have done and see if you can find any patters as far as what types of math questions you get wrong. Do you make silly mistakes? Do you run out of time? Do you answer too many questions, etc. If you notice you always miss sequence problems, for example, take whatever review book you have (McGraw Hill, Barrons, Kaplan, etc) and do all the sequence problems in the book to practice.</p>
<p>Give it your best shot on June 2 and then you can reassess over the summer how you want to proceed!</p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>
<p>LearningEdge! Thank you! That really motivated me to do much better on my next test! I will take your advice and do my best!</p>
<p>You are very welcome! Give it all you got and good luck!!</p>
<p>Maybe try the act? Yeah I’m not a fan of the sat either. If I were to convert my act to an sat score, my act score would be about 300 points higher than my sat.</p>