SAT advice and college help?

Laeven
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:08:27 +0000

I don’t know anything about international applications or that stuff, but here’s what I did to up my SAT score quick:


If you have a significantly weaker subject (ie math for me) then choose that one to focus on. It may be less fun, but you have so much more room to improve that improvement will come quicker.
Buy the “Official SAT Study Guide” It’s less that 15 bucks and has a bunch of practice tests and teaches you basic concepts.
Take a practice test (I just took the math sections). Score it and go through the problems you got wrong or didn’t know how to do. Figure out how to do them (or get a tutor to help if you don’t know a lot of material).
Write the concepts/ideas that made you miss the problems in a separate notebook.
Repeat 3 and 4 as many times as you want.
A week or two before the test review your notebook and the concepts. Go back through old tests and look at the problems you missed. Can you solve them now? Try to. If not, review that concept again.


I honestly only did one math section a week (took about half an hour per week). I upped my score 100 points on math SAT doing this in only a few months.

I don’t know Hong Kong’s average SAT score, but remember that ecs count a lot too. I got into my top choice college without perfect SAT marks because of my ecs. It’s not all about academics.

Good luck with your test and college apps process!