<p>I oddly received 2 AP student score report sheets, and on one of them my name’s mispelled. How do I correct that?</p>
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<p>610 is very low for top schools; so if you are shooting for those, then yes.</p>
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<p>Contact the College Board.</p>
<p>@Silver turtle- will the grammar rules and examples included in this guide also help for the English section on the ACT?</p>
<p>^ Yes, they will.</p>
<p>I have a question about the CR section: Would thirteen questions wrong with a 52 give a 630? That’s what the blue book says, but it feels a little bit generous. According to the BB, I would have 52-(13/4) = 48.75 ~ 49, which corresponds to a 630.</p>
<p>Thirteen questions wrong and no omissions would yield approximately 640.</p>
<p>I omitted two questions. Thank you very much! :)</p>
<p>That would be about 620.</p>
<p>Lol. I just realized that silverturtle spent 19 minutes having to wait one minute after each post to post his entire thing. Add that to all the time creating/typing the awesome piece of work and you get a lot of dedication. Good job silverturtle.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I had to type really fast to get those grammar posts done within 60 seconds. :)</p>
<p>I think this thread is starting to give people false hope. It is very very hard to improve your scores by more than 2 standard deviations- if it happens, the testing agency will intiate a cheating investigation (go to the ACT website). Even 1 standard deviation is hard enough.</p>
<p>Thus i highly doubt that someone can take a 650 to an 800 in the course of a summer. 70-80 points, maybe. 150 points towards the upper end of the spectrum? Laws of diminish returns and probability says otherwise.</p>
<p>Im just saying set reasonable goals and expect disappointment if you dont.</p>
<p>I wonder if this thread will reach 464k in number of views like xiggi’s. :)</p>
<p>Silverturtle,
I originally posted these questions on another thread, but thought I should seek your expert advice. 1. Is it better to buy an entire SAT book or just buy separate ones for each section? 2. If I wanted to buy different books, what would be the best one for each section? 3. If I wanted to just buy one big book, what would be the best one, besides the BB? I was leaning towards Barron’s because I know it’s difficult and I can handle it, but I’m not so sure.
Also, I got horrible scores on the Subject Tests I took as a sophomore. 550 in Math 2 after taking regular Pre-Calculus and 600 in Chemistry after taking regular Chemistry. I was planing on retaking Math 2 right away in October as a junior, but should I wait a little longer and study? As for Chem, I was going to retake that too, but I’m unsure if I should. I’m going to take at least two more Subject Tests, Physics and English Lit, so I don’t know if I’m submitting Chem to colleges.</p>
<p>650 -> 800 is more than possible. I went from 1980 to 2270 in two days. For me, the difference was that I just stopped trying to think of reasons why answers might be right and instead thought of reasons why they might be wrong. I was too good at making innocents.</p>
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True, but I meant for the more general questions. Tone, main idea, things like that. Do you usually have to recheck the passage or can you directly do them using POE or just simply finding the right answer? - Talking about the long passages, obviously.
Also, I think the 3rd question I posed was one of “devices”, as ETS puts it, and I come across it rarely (though it was in there in the June SAT as the last question in a passage, and it was pretty difficult.)</p>
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Already do, but I’m looking for a way of how to think in that question (as in how to relate between the devices they give and the actual ones used in the passage.)</p>
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I went from a 2120 to a 2260 in approximately 3 weeks/a month of studying for CR + M. I did around 5 practice tests for the math, and 6 for the CR, with checking the wrong answers. I ended up improving my math by 80 points (though I wasn’t that far off from an 800 in the first place since I never really had any trouble aside from silly mistakes) and improve my writing by 80 as well (720 first try, 790 2nd, 800 3rd), but barely managed to increase my CR - 630/620 to 660. My practice tests gave me a score of 680+ usually.</p>
<p>My point is, now that I’m at a 2260, improving seems difficult, because I’m already on the higher end of the spectrum, as someone above said. 660->800 in the section I’m clearly weakest in seems very difficult right now, and despite practicing (6 BB tests) I barely improved. Seems unlikely to reach an 800 right about now, but I’m still going to try it 
You never know.</p>
<p>Your improvement is amazing though, didn’t you get a 2400 in the end?
POE usually helps with the most dramatic increases, so in my (very humble) opinion, a 1980 wasn’t your true starting point was it - that would be the 2270
Mind if I ask your CR increase?</p>
<p>I saw your post earlier on the increased likeliness of getting accepted to certain Ivys with a perfect score on your SATs an SAT 2s. I received an appalling score of 760 on my SAT 2, and I’m quite confident I can get 800 if I take it a second time. Is that worth doing? The bad thing is that I’ll have to take my SAT 2 in Nov of my senior year, which is probably the most intense period of my high school career. It might adversely affect the rest of the stuff I have going on, including my college essays and such.</p>
<p>Anything is possible but is it likely? No</p>
<p>it is possible for a man to beat a bear in close quarter combat unarmed. But can everyone do it? No please don’t try.</p>
<p>Similarly, while ther are instances of huge score increases, testing agencies will assume that u cheated unless proven otherwise. ACT does so. Thus academic reseach even suggests that such a large increase is unlikely.</p>
<p>I don’t get why they would assume cheating on a SAT exam. Don’t people get different tests with different orders of sections? And I can’t imagine it’s easy to look around to see which kid has the same tests that you have.
jasonInNy, I think it depends on how much effort the person gives, and how “intelligent” he is. But I don’t disagree, because sadly, it’s true that some people can’t achieve a certain score no matter how hard they try.</p>
<p>My son took a school-administered, group study program, using the “SAT Victory” prep book by Cambridge Educational Services. He’s never been a strong standardized test taker…but if he can bump his scores up just a little bit using the SAT Blue Book and these prescribed methods- it will make a world of difference in the options available to him as a recruited athlete, come fall. It surely can’t hurt to change up the strategy.</p>
<p>~Thanks in advance, SilverTurtle. :)</p>