<p>but I CAN’T SEEM TO BREAK OUT OF THE HIGH 600’s RANGE! in march, my math score was a 670. june, i got a 680. what should i do? i really want to break into the mid-700’s. any advice??</p>
<p>if i were you, i would get smarter. That would probably help a lot.</p>
<p>^^ wow what an a**hole!</p>
<p>i would suggest buying the Grubers complete guide 2009 edition. it has some hlepful math pointers. also, what used to get me the most were careless errors. so whenever i would take practice tests and got a question wrogn i would wrte down why i got it wrong. for example, i remember a question that asked for the area of a triangle, so i multiplied the base by the height but forgot to divide but two. so i took a post-it note and wrote down: area of a rectangele is B*H/2. </p>
<p>little things like that will cost you points.
i went from a 640 on my very first practice test to a 730 on the may sat btw.</p>
<p>thanks for a real answer dillbilly. can you explain how the grubers guide is set up? does it go by concepts? or a whole bunch of problems?</p>
<p>Your scores look a lot like mine – 680 December '07, 670 January '08. For the October '08 test, I did all the problems on the CB website ( specifically [SAT</a> Skills Insight](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board) ) for score ranges 600-700 and then 700-800, and did additional problems for any concept that seemed especially tough for me (mostly geometry problems). October SAT was a 750 Math. Some of that might have been luck, but the prep helped. If you’ve already done a lot of prep, though, I don’t know if that’ll do anything for you.</p>
<p>And I definitely DON’T think that math is the easiest section. By far the most difficult, for me (800s in the other 2).</p>
<p>Math is the hardest for me too. I got a 690 with it, and I’m really trying to break 720 next time. What I’m going to do is go through each of the Blue Book math tests, maybe a lot of the 10RS ones too, and figure out how to do every problem that I get wrong, as well as make a list of my common mistakes (like billy recommended).</p>
<p>I’ve only just started doing this, but it’s easy to see that almost all of the questions on the test mirror those from earlier tests, so I’m expecting an increase in score.</p>
<p>sorry, it seemed like the majority’s opinion was that math was the easiest section for CC’ers. 
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<p>I did a lot of prepping, and I KNOW for a fact that I always make stupid mistakes, as well as not know some of the concepts as well as i should. so you guys are just studying the commonly missed questions and concepts to try to raise your score?</p>
<p>^I don’t consider math the easiest, though I would group myself in the other CC’ers who score well in the math. Writing is easiest in my opinion, though to be fair I don’t know how well I’ll do for the essay.</p>
<p>basically, what I do to avoid the stupid mistakes is I check over my answers carefully twice, once immediately after I finish a problem and going back to everything a second time at the end. practice this only if time isn’t as much of an issue as content. </p>
<p>Besides this, I can’t really say how to “know” the math better besides rigorous practice. Even without jotting down all of your commonly missed questions, the sheer volume of practice that you do will greatly increase your score.</p>
<p>well u have to do every each one of the questions on Official guide, math ones of couse. They are really helpful. Oh and i suggest u try out barron, it might help. and i think it works well when you anaylize ur problem, is it algebra or something…
luckily i got 800 both times when i took the sat
may 2009, and June 2009 hehe</p>
<p>thanks for your opinions guys, i guess i thought math was the easiest section and that wasn’t exactly the case. if anyone else has any thoughts on how i should be practicing, i’ll take them into consideration :)</p>
<p>Barron’s 2400 will give you a tough time in the math section. Even the arithmetic questions are difficult.</p>
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<p>it goes by concepts. for example, there is a section that has to do with rate and time (it gives the famous average rate formula 2ab/(a+b)), then there’s a section that focuses with circles and so on. it’s pretty darn helpful because it’s straight forward. good luck!</p>
<p>oh okay, thanks dillbilly! </p>
<p>somebody random, i have the 2400, and i did find some of the math q’s to be hard. do you think they helped you though? because i thoughty they were too hard and didnt really bother studying from the book for math.</p>
<p>barrons is actually reaally hard. im rele good at math in school and got a 740 on the math section 1st time taking it, and i thought barrons was pretty tough.</p>
<p>oh okay, so its NOT very accurate?</p>
<p>It’s not the easiest section. It’s just that some kids are natural math whizzes while others have no number sense. With language ability, things are more normally spread out, especially because everybody gets practice with reading/writing while it’s possible to mostly avoid math.</p>