Hello everyone! I am an Italian student. I am going to apply to the top universities in the US, including Harvard, Yale, Brown UPenn and more… I have got a good GPA and I’d like to take the SAT, if Covid lets me to do that. I have the test scheduled for Dec 5. I have bought the official guide and have taken one full test.
I don’t know where to start to study. I have always attended an Italian-curriculum school and have no knowledge of specific writing techniques in English, aside from my own intuition.
I took a full test and scored 1410 out of 1600. Is that a good starting point, taken into account I hadn’t read a page of the guide or revised any topic?Actually, I didn’t even know precisely how the test was structured.
Please help me: I’m a quite anxious as time is running out
Bump
Google “SAT test prep” and start timing yourself with test prompts. Your guide should be of some help.
Honestly, though, targeting some of the best schools in the US, where hundreds of thousands of students, worldwide, apply doesn’t bode well for you. There are only so few seats left. Most seats are already taken by athletes, celebrities, large donors, artists, etc.
Even students with perfect scores don’t get in. There just isn’t any room.
Make sure that you can afford these schools. They are expensive.
That sounds like a very good starting point. My daughter also attends high school overseas. She found that the best way she improved her score was by doing a few practice tests and then intently studying the questions that she answered incorrectly. She really focused on the areas where she initially had errors by doing the problems over and over again. She found great improvements to her score with this focus (especially in math where the curriculum in the US is very different).
Besides the official guide, she ordered The College Panda books online and also read a great book called New SAT Strategies for a 1600 by Nathan Halberstadt. You can order all these books through Amazon. Good luck.