SAT in 1 month.

Smile614
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:23:51 +0000

I got that same score on my PSAT soph year (different distributions of scores though)

And then took the SAT in January as well…to see how I would do compared to my PSAT since I was fairly satisfied.

As nooob suggested–DONT take it as just a “practice”. I did that too, went in without any prep just to see how I would do since most people took me my SAT scores would be higher than my PSAT. (it wasn’t haha) And now I kinda wished I didn’t because it’s always going to be there and it’ll show that I took the test 3 times even though one of those times was just for “practice” …I didn’t even know there was an essay haha.

It DID scare me into studying during the summer. I knew I couldn’t get into any of my dream schools with that grade so it got me thinking and planning.

And you should definitely be aware of all the colleges starting to opt out of score choice. It’s not exactly clear on how it’s going to work…which is why I’m not counting on hiding anything even though I’m a junior and it’ll be available next year.

CR–Know some vocab but don’t spend all your time on it, I found that it was mostly just doing a bunch of practice tests that helped with reading the passages and going over all the ones I got wrong and figuring out why

Good luck!