<p>Did you guys study for the SAT I or did you just wing it? How many people you think don’t study for them at the Ivy level? If you did study, would you say how much and what you got?</p>
<p>please be honest-- no one will care if you studied like 4 hours a day…</p>
<p>the first time I took the SAT I “winged” it. I ended up with a 1300. I was really sad for a few weeks. And it became even worse when I complained about my score to friends - many of which would kill for a 1300.</p>
<p>So then I bought Kaplan’s SAT book and 10 reals, and took all the verbal sections in it and some of the math sections, math being my best part of the SAT at the time. I ended up with 1470 - 750V, 720M. I should’ve worked on math more lol.</p>
<p>The SAT II’s I had only one chance to do well on this November, so I studied nonstop the 3 days preceding them. And did pretty well. 740w, 740iic, 670biom.</p>
<p>I’d say less than 10 percent of Ivy level people don’t study…</p>
<p>I study…pshh everyone does…welll everyone at an ivy level</p>
<p>well that explains it haha 1470 is so good after studying cuz i got a 1400 with no studying and that sucks for penn… soo i guess I should have studied-- but it seems like the kind of thing that you shouldnt have to study to do well at… i dunno i just really hate the SAT I haven’t taken algebra since 8th grade so i got a 640 math and a 760 verbal… wackness</p>
<p>totally winged my sat1s, sat2s and acts…probably explains the scores though</p>
<p>I got a 1360 on the Junior year PSAT without studying. That’s why I was expecting a 1400 on the Jan 04 SAT, which is the one where I got a 1300.</p>
<p>In retrospect, its best that I did get a 1300. If I did get that 1400 I wouldn’t have studied for the 2nd time I took it and would probably end up around the same score or a little higher/lower. The 1300 made me work hard to get to a 1470…</p>
<p>do you think studying for the SAT makes you a smarter kid… or is it a very isolated task that is very specific to that one test-- I wonder if peeps get smarter after the whole SAT studying process that would be interesting…</p>
<p>Well you definitely expand your vocabulary and you probably become better at logic and reasoning as well.</p>
<p>after the SAT studying process? I don’t think so…</p>
<p>Do you know what helped my verbal though? Doing the crossword puzzle daily…</p>
<p>Word. I love that. Do you guys watch jeopardy. that dude that won the millions was the frickin man. He only got a 1350 on his SAT though, i found that surprising. It is a different type of knowledge though- he just knows mad facts.</p>
<p>1350? That maggot, that peon, that imbecile, that fool!</p>
<p>he probably didn’t study though… ha so he is better than you dude</p>
<p>Studied for a 1420, then realized my error, that I had overstudied and made myself nervous about the test. Retook it after a 6 month gap --didn’t pick up an SAT book once-- and got a 1530.</p>
<p>he went to brigham young university and got with mormon chicks</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>Actually, he took the oldschool SAT… which was much harder. A 1600 on the current SAT equals about a 1490 on the old school one…</p>
<p>for real? that is pretty reedonckulous</p>
<p>yes. my cousins got into princeton with 1350 or so SATs.
back in the day</p>
<p>thats insane…me? i studied in a diff way…i just took 6 practice tests before ever taking the real one…i got a 1580 on the first try…3 hrs taking each test and an hour going over each one is 4 hrs per test…times 6 tests= 24hrs of SAT studying total…its more than i have ever studied for anything by a LOOOOOONGSHOT, and i think it was well worth it…sat iis: didnt study (xept an hr the day b4 writing: 800 writing, 790 mathiic, 760 us hist, 750 chem)…AP: studied my butt off for chem (like 6hrs worth, sincei flunked the class)…studied prolly 3 hrs for us hist and 0 for macro…5s on all…i think that studying can only help so much, its all about test-taking skills in general (studying for the SAT indirectly transfers to a good AP score report)</p>
<p>yeah my dad got into wharton with a 1310…</p>