<p>I last took the SAT in March. My math was 630 and I really want a 700. I read Gruber’s math book, taken several practice tests, reviewed everything, and I still score between a 570-630. I’ve honestly followed every advice I could find, but there’s no improvement. </p>
<p>How can I improve? It seems like asians get 700s in their sleep</p>
<p>try being a little less stereotypical, maybe that will help</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with being stereotypical, it was a joke. But seriously… what’s wrong?</p>
<p>get a tutor. I don’t mean you can’t do it yourself, but you need more help and taking the tests over and over again won’t necessarily help you. SATs are a game really and your job is to figure out how to play. One other big help is to read the explanations. That makes a big difference.</p>
<p>PS: my son got 800 in SAT I and II and we’re not asian.</p>
<p>There are no explanations in the BB, so I sometimes feel lost. And I’m not spending money on a tutor. I can’t afford that.</p>
<p>Hm, what are you not understanding?</p>
<p>The SAT is a pretty repetitive test.</p>
<p>If it gives you unknowns, write equations for the unknowns and solve. Use basic properties (sum of A’s of a triangle, 360 deg in a circle) to solve problems involving those. Try to be more specific about what you’re having problems with…otherwise people can only give you general advice.</p>
<p>If you get something wrong, I advise going back and looking at the problem for a while first before you ask someone for an explanation. It helps to arrive at conclusions yourself in anything. But people on here will help if you do need an explanation.</p>
<p>Thanks for the genuine response. I’ll look up what with what I have difficulties.</p>
<p>Go to this website, it has all the explanations for all the Math problems in the BB: [Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org/sat.jsp]Khan”>http://www.khanacademy.org/sat.jsp)</p>
<p>You should be taking lots of practice tests, but use a book that give you explanations so you can learn from your mistakes. Go to B&N or Border’s to get one of those books, like Kaplan/Princeton Review/…there are tons. Our school recycles them, maybe yours does too.</p>
<p>well, buy more math prep books and just do them.
it’s important that u can learn sth frm what u did wrong. not just what’s wrong is wrong.
if it’s still not up, just keep doing for when it’s up it hardly does down. ^^
i was once like you ^^</p>
<p>Well…I am Chinese who studies majorly in China, but I don’t score perfect,yet-,-
Get a Barron’s SAT prep book,and deal with those maths problems…They’re harder than the actual tests so it should make things easier.
Plus,analyze what sort of problems you usually get wrong druring practice!!Knowing how to summarizing up past mistakes is important.That’s how I improve CR.
And really,SAT reasoning’s maths isn’t so overwhelming.Don’t be afraid of it.
Best of luck.</p>