<p>When you’ve done every Practice Test in the Blue Book and every old SAT practice test? People are always preaching work with real questions, but what do you do when you have finished everything, and it would be un-productive to re-do them?</p>
<p>Bump, want to know the answer too.</p>
<p>Considering you worked hard enough to go through the entire book, there’s not much more to it. I would say maybe check your answers or go over the parts you know you’re not good at. If you don’t understand a question, you can always search online or post it here.</p>
<p>But what if you didn’t see the improvement that you wanted?</p>
<p>Review them</p>
<p>Go through them again. And then analyze your results.</p>
<p>You aren’t going to get improvement just by taking tests over and over and hoping for better results. Take one test (I doubt you’ll remember the test word for word). When you’re done, check your work and analyze what you would have done. Ask yourself, “What can I do on this type of problem in this section to do better? What strategy can I use?” Then, in the next test, use specifically that strategy. Write it down and focus on doing that strategy. Rinse. Repeat.</p>
<p>Im pretty sure there are more SAT practice books in the world than just those. If you really want to practice more, try searching google or bing for more SAT practice tests or question. It’s good to set high goals for yourself but don’t get too stressed out.</p>
<p>Check this link out: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/757034-college-board-sat-test-links.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/757034-college-board-sat-test-links.html</a></p>
<p>There’s many more tests here</p>
<p>Your resources are never exhausted. There’s more to preparing for a test than working from a book or spending hours and hours online looking for “the answer.”</p>
<p>The answer is not in a test prep book, and it’s certainly not available at some $600 (excuse me, $599) corporate class overseen by some hack who watches you work out of the very same kind of book you’ve already seen a million times.</p>
<p>Practice doesn’t always “make perfect.” To the contrary, the way most people (not necessarily you) practice only exacerbates the situation.</p>
<p>I have many more thoughts on this, but I’ll defer them for now and just agree with the person who advised you quite rightly to not “get too stressed out”</p>
<p>@CimmerianMonk
I actually have access to all the real SAT’s from 05-12, so I’m aware that there is plenty more material out there.</p>
<p>Thank you jeremy. If you wish to, could you elaborate? I’m really at a lost on how to most effectively study for the SAT, in a formulaic, successful way that doesn’t simply go against the grain just to go against the grain.</p>
<p>Do you have an iPhone/iPad? There are tons of fun apps that have SAT practice questions. My favorite is “SAT UP”. Check it out, it is organized, you can customize it to your skill level, and it is really helpful with analyzing your results. Just something different to try :)</p>
<p>Thank you jeremy. If you wish to, could you elaborate? I’m really at a lost on how to most effectively study for the SAT, in a formulaic, successful way that doesn’t simply go against the grain just to go against the grain.</p>
<p>You’re welcome (and my name is John).</p>
<p>I’d love to be able to elaborate, but your request evidences the problem to which I refer.</p>
<p>In a sense, the terms “formulaic” and “successful” are almost mutually-exclusive.</p>
<p>Before I go any farther, you should know that I probably cannot help anyone here with math.</p>
<p>With regard to the verbal sections, I’d have to see a writing sample in order to know where to start with you. With reading and writing, all teaching assumptions must be suspended.</p>
<p>It’s not like, say, a geometry class wherein a teacher can reasonably expect that each kid has at least a rudimentary understanding of algebra.</p>
<p>Your point about “going against the grain” for its own sake is a wise one. Realize that there IS a sequence of verbal skills that an effective reading or writing teacher follows.</p>
<p>I’ll be writing a mock essay sometime this week, and I’ll PM you it and you can figure out where I’m at. </p>
<p>The verbal sections give me a bit of trouble in that I lack in grammar rules/skills and vocab knowledge - two things that basically involve the same type of preparation as math. For example, I got about 9 wrong on one entire CR portion, with only 2 of them being passage-based questions and the other 7 being vocab.</p>