<p>The title says all.
is it possible to raise your SAT score up 540 points?
I took a practice SAT once and my score is just horrible.
is there any way to increase it by 540-600 points?
and if there is, any suggestions?</p>
<p>yes it is possible, although improbable. </p>
<p>take an SAT prep course or get a tutor. these can be expensive but usually they’re good for a hundred points or so. </p>
<p>take practice tests and also buy a prep book and study it. find your weak points and work on them during the summer. also, not sure if this applies, but if you didn’t do well on the math section it may have to do with what math classes you’ve taken so far. if you have not taken precal/trig yet, that may be the problem, because i found that a lot of the SAT was precal/trig stuff.</p>
<p>It’s possible. I kept taking practice tests last summer and raised like 600 points. Keep doing practice tests and review the correct answers.</p>
<p>it’s possible, but it won’t be easy.</p>
<p>Did you take a genuine released previous SAT test, or some test-prep company’s simulated SAT test? Maybe your practice test score is bogus. Anyway, if you want to practice, you are best off practicing with real previous tests. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Yes, possible…if you strove to do horribly on your first try and then actually tried your second time…</p>
<p>hahah, joking. in all seriousness, i raised my score by over 300 pts. from 2000 to 2300+. those are some hard 300 points to gain b/c there isn’t much to room to improve. however, if you’re more average, it should be easier to improve. </p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>Yeah, my friend did it. But that’s because he slept through the first time he took the SAT and then did amazing the second time he took the SAT.</p>
<p>well, I took a practice SAT from the princeton review.
and well, I was not really familiar with the sat so I tried to do every single problem instead of leaving blank the ones I did not know how to do.
but doing about 20+ practice tests would be beneficial?</p>
<p>Well, I started SAT prep in 9th grade and raised my score from a 1860 to 2350.</p>
<p>I’m shooting for a 600 point increase in about 2-3 months of prep. and I think it’s possible. Dedicate 2 hours everyday to different things and you should do it if your truly dedicated.</p>
<p>use barron’s 2400!
i found that reading it + studying vocab helped a lot more than just taking a bunch of practice tests.
i was able to raise my SAT score by 210 points, but probably only because my math sections were easier than the previous ones.</p>
<p>it is possible but u must make sure to work hard and be motivated to follow through w/ ur plan if ur gonna do it by urself.</p>
<p>Like a 5% chance probably.</p>
<p>Only Jesus has done it so far.</p>
<p>It would be much easier in say a year than a few months. Time is a major factor.</p>
<p>It is possible; I’ve seen it happen more than once. Like everybody else said, though, it’s going to take lots of work.</p>
<p>It’s possible that you may know the following information, but just in case, I thought I’d write it all out so you have it in one place for reference purposes.</p>
<p>1) Do not waste your time memorizing the Barrons 3500 word list. Learn the high-frequency word lists and then read. Try the Norton Reader, tenth edition (that’s <em>not</em> the same as the Norton Anthology of English Literature/American Literature/Whatever Literature that you might have used in an English class. Find the Norton Reader on Amazon).</p>
<p>2) You will need every College Board practice test you can get your hands on, because 10 tests is not going to do it for you. Since it sounds like your scores are in the 400s/500s, and since you are likely going to run out of real College Board SATs, I would consider beginning with real College Board PSATs, which can be ordered by calling the College Board (I believe the number is 609-771-7243; PM me if this number is wrong and you want the right one). There are six available. If your scores are in the 400s, and they stay in the 400s on the next one or two practice tests that you do, I would <em>definitely</em> order the PSATs.</p>
<p>Then you are ready to start on College Board SATs. I would do a test every week or every two weeks <em>straight through</em>, not section by section. On a four-hour exam, stamina counts. You can buy the Blue Book (the Official Guide); you can also sign up for the College Board course online. The course is not so special, but you get access to an additional 6 real tests.</p>
<p>if you want to work through some real problems section by section, fifteen or thirty minutes at a time, I really like to use the old Real SAT books for that. Over the summer, I’ve been having students like you do a full test straight through once a week or once every two weeks, and then do individual problem sets from old SAT books the rest of the time. The combo seems to work pretty well. For that, you could order two other real SAT books: “10 Real SATs, Third Edition” (the so called red book) and “10 Real SATs, First Edition” (which is a white book, although I’ve never heard it called that 
). This will give you fourteen tests of extra practice.</p>
<p>All told, that gives you 6 PSATs, 16 Real New SATs, and 14 Real Old SATs. After that, maybe you can borrow more recent tests from friends. You should never have to do an exam that was not formulated by the College Board, and I recommend that you don’t.</p>
<p>4) Make sure your essay is really long! Fill both pages!</p>
<p>5) Considering ordering a book called Maximum SAT. I just got that book three days ago, but so far, I think the CR and Writing (I don’t teach math, so I wouldn’t know about math) are more solid than anything else I’ve seen recently. It really does contain a lot of the stuff you’d hear from a very expensive tutor. Barrons 2400 is also good, as somebody else said.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Not if you get 2400’s :P.</p>
<p>I personally believe it’s possible. But, I don’t want to discuss it by an overall score, but instead, discuss it section by section, because “sat score up 540 points” is a pretty vague statement, because, for me personally, it doesn’t show which part specifically improved. </p>
<p>The best sections to improve dramatically on are math and writing (it’s more difficult to improve on the hard problems that will ocassionaly pop up), because certain weaknesses can keep your score pretty low (i.e: for math, not being careful enough, not knowing the types of problems, etc.; for writing, not knowing the basic SAT grammar rules, not being great in the essay, etc.).</p>
<p>wow, someone started SAT prep in 9th grade??? Isn’t that a little obsessive lol??? I mean, congrats, but…jeez!</p>
<p>I know someone who raised their score over 700 points…</p>
<p>So yes, very possible.</p>