<p>Hi,I’m a male student at a kind of low performing rural school in MS. I’ve taken the ACT and gotten a score of 27 with no prep. I’m prepping now for the ACT. I also took the PSAT and got a score of 180 CR:54 M:67 W:59. THere was a delay in my scores and I have a chance for alternate entry. Although these scores aren’t good enough for National Merit they were good enough for national achievement in my area. My counselor told me to study with the Barron’s SAT guide book and try my to score 2000 or above. Does anyone have any helpful advice and tips for me? Is the PSAT a good indicator as to what you may make on the SAT? Any tips for the Reading Section because reading is my weak point and the writing section as well. The writing section score of the PSAT is odd to me considering I have a 30 on the English Section of the ACT? Any insight?? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Your SAT score is usually higher than your PSAT score, because you’ll be taking the SAT a year later (and prepping). I’ve found Collegeboard’s SAT prep book to be really good; you might want to try that. </p>
<p>Take as many practice tests as you can. They really, really help so much, since you get pretty used to the types of questions they’ll throw at you. I got below a 200 on the PSAT sophomore year with no prep, did a ton of practice tests over the summer, and jumped a few hundred points on my junior year PSAT. </p>
<p>Read as much as you can, and if you don’t have a huge vocabulary already, start memorizing some common words that show up on the SAT, and read as much as you can. Also memorize your grammar rules and know them well; the SAT writers will try to trick you with its “spot the error” sections. </p>
<p>Basically, do a little memorizing, and a lot of practice tests, and you should do very well on the test.</p>
<p>There are 3 stickied threads at the top of this forum that you should read for a lot of very helpful advice. I believe you can also sign up for an account on the College Board website and they will email you a practice question every day.</p>
<p>Some books that helped my son were Dr. Chung’s SAT Math, the Direct Hits vocabulary book, and “Hack the SAT”</p>