Testing or study?

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>Ok…it isn’t looking too good.</p>

<p>I’ve taken 4 practice tests online, and it seems that my scores keep dropping. Is it time to study/study again the McGraw Hill Book?</p>

<p>CR/W/M</p>

<p>Test 1
540, 700, 650</p>

<p>Test 2
480-540, 650-780, 620-680 </p>

<p>Test 3
550-610, 650-780, 620-680 </p>

<p>Test 4<br>
540-600, 570-700, 560-640 </p>

<p>Test 5
510-570, 570-700, 600-660 </p>

<p>I have 3 more, then I can take the Blue Book ones, but should I study more or just keep testing?</p>

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<p>Glucose, I think you should pinpoint the specific problems you’re having on the tests that you’ve already taken. Then take the time to address these problems by studying. I think you should take the bulk of the remaining tests closer to the actual test date.</p>

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<p>You need to figure out why you are getting them wrong…not just blindly testing and hoping your score will go up. Use the online course’s answer explanations to find out why you got some questions wrong, and study them to make sure you don’t get them wrong in the future.</p>

<p>Also, the automatic essay grader for the online course isn’t accurate, so you might want to take that into account.</p>

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<p>I am looking at what I’m getting wrong. With math though, I always usually only miss the last 2-3 of every section (especially the free-response section). With writing, it’s mostly the section where you say which is the wrong in the underlined portions of one sentence. The reading…it’s really random what I miss; it depends if I understand the passage truly, or I think I do, but don’t.</p>

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<p>what do you guys mean by specific problems… like the sat is just a test right… and math problems are liek math problems… and they are different each time… can you give an example of like patterns of things you might miss?</p>

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<p>Like you might be always missing the probability questions in math. Or ones about parallel constructions in writing. It’s easier to just study something like that than to study the entire math section or writing section.</p>

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<p>do we usuallymiss patterns and not just random questions…? Is that the best way to raise your score?</p>

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<p>Just do practice questions, see what you got wrong, and figure out how to do that problem so the next time you see a problem like that you will know what to do…</p>

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<p>“do we usuallymiss patterns and not just random questions…? Is that the best way to raise your score?”</p>

<p>I’m not really sure… I would guess that we’d probably be consistently missing the same type of question-- if you don’t know how to do it, you probably aren’t ever going to get it right. Finding out your weaknesses and working on them sounds like a great idea-- what better way to study?</p>

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<p>I always miss the WEIRD math questions, like the last 2.</p>

<p>Readin, I just don’t get.</p>

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<p>Yeah, critical reading is evil. I fervently wish that there were more sentence completions instead of reading comp, because studying actually produces discernable improvement for sentence completions… argh.</p>