Is there any hope for me?

argbargy
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:06:18 +0000

“Also my high school teacher reguraly hands out A’s and most people take blow off classes to up there gpa.”

Ok thats why standardized test exist. To root out those shenanigans.

A 3.4 isnt terrible. There is a thread on CC about schools for that range, and I doubt that a 2000 is necessary for them. How did you arrive at the 2000 number? Do you have a school/schools picked out and you know that is necessary? Read through that thread a consider those school and match your score to them.

I think you should be able to get math to a 600, not sure about CR since it sounds like you arent much of a reader to start with so you maybe have issues with time after you go over the passage. As you probably already figured out the SAT is all about the time limits so if you dont already make sure that you are taking the practice tests with a timer in front of you and you know how to ration your time out. NEVER read the instructions for the section- that not changing. Practice skimming the passages quickly, circling things that seem key as you go through the first pass.

You also need a score report to work from. What they call the “Student Answer Service”- this will tell you which type of questions you are getting wrong. Then you know where to direct your studies. I think you wont get the Nov report until the 27 which is too late to help much. If you dont have it already order the May report.

I would suggest that you adopt a strategy of maximizing your minimum. So plan to skip the hardest questions, they will just waste your time and you wont get them right anyway. Skip the last 4 on the maths. Then you are only doing 16 questions in 25 minutes which will give you a big edge in getting the material you know right. Just bubble in some thing random on the last ones but dont bother trying to eliminate anything. By the time you figure out where AB bisecting angle CDE is on the diagram you will blow 60 seconds, which is a big deal in this environment.

Most importantly dont feel hopeless. You already went up 270 points. So you know this can be done. And a lot of the subjects you are probably close to being able to lock in the subject and get all of those questions right with a little additional effort. And the goal here isn’t to reach an arbitrary number, but to get you admitted to the right fit school for you. And you probably aren’t far off that score.