<p>How many questions can I miss on the Reading and Math section and still score a 650?</p>
<p>Also, my highest score on the Math has been a 530 and Reading was 440. English was 480 if that matters. Anyways, I didn’t really prep up for the SAT, but this time I am. Do you all think my goal can be achieved if I study for the SAT from the College Board SAT prep book (the blue book)?</p>
<p>Please help me help myself. (:</p>
<p>You need more books. Princeton Review 2008 is really good. The Barron’s books are great actually. The Barron’s How to Prepare for the SAT 2007-2008 covers just about everything, and I mean everything. Just about every math concept, a 3500 word list(you can just study the 200-300 highlighted words though), so many wood roots, and a lot on grammar. Barron’s 2400 is if you want to get a 700 but you need to already be very smart, otherwise that book isn’t for you. As for the questions, according to the blue book, well, there are many scaled scores. But the minimum appears to be around 6-8 questions missed. Basically if you get all the Easy and Medium right and skip the hard questions, then you can get that type of score.</p>
<p>I’d listen to RahoulVA – the Barron’s How to Prepare for the SAT covers everything, and PR 2008 is also a good read. Get those two and if you work diligently, you should be able to reach your goal. </p>
<p>Use the official college board book for real practice tests (well, they’re not real, but they’re made by the same people so it’s as close as you can get)</p>
<p>I find that Princeton Review has questions that are close to the real ones, but again you can’t find real questions anywhere except from Collegeboard. If a book like Barron’s tells you to get the main idea of a passage from the first sentence, thesis, and concluding paragraph, then they’re going to have passages where you can find the main idea using their strategies. On some actual SAT passages, you might not find the main idea in some of those spots. Still, their strategies are good, and I highly advise that you look at them. </p>
<p>For Math, there are a few strategies that can help you past most questions. Plug in your own #s or substitute their answer choices. The pick your own #s is the most helpful though because it bypasses the need for good algebraic skills. You still need good algebraic skills, but look at today’s question from CB.</p>
<p>[The</a> Official SAT Question of the Day](<a href=“http://apps.collegeboard.com/qotd/question.do]The”>http://apps.collegeboard.com/qotd/question.do)</p>
<p>You know what I did? I said that he bought 10 items, which is a really easy #, don’t pick a hard # like 17. 30%=3, 10%=1, so which answer gives 2 when n=10. Books like PR teach some of these great strategies that may even propel you over the hard questions. If you want a 650 on the math, then don’t even guess on the hard questions because most likely they will trick you into guessing the wrong answers.</p>