Need helps from 800ers in writing and math sections

HiPeople
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:52:53 +0000

umm i got 800 math and 780 writing on this december one but i dont think you realy want to follow my way

since i also compete in AMCs and huge national math competitions, i spent like 1 hour a day in the summer between 8th grade and 9th grade doing math probelms from these art of probelm solving books (totally boosted my math ability)…which i guarentee if you can go through one of these books, anyone can get a 800 on Math II SAT…
but anyways yea i got 8 on aime so i dont think 800 was a shock (you can try, go to the forum but i doubt it)…
in all honesty, remember some basic formulas, factoring tricks, and look for similar triangles in geometry problems…also notice that many math problems dont have tricks…when given a right triangle look for pythagorean first, dont think of something fancy and stuff like that

and for writing, two words: formula writing

Btw, penndreamer, want to help me on CR? I only got a 660 this time even though i was confident i could get a 700+, on both psats ive taken ive never gotten higher than 70 either…

besides studying vocab, how do go about your CR passages? Do you make notes after each passage? What do you do exactly to get better because i always make mistakes in those questions.