<p>When I was back in 10th grade, I 'd taken the PSAT without even knowing the meaning of it. Yes, I was horrible and thought it doesn’t matter to me because one of the teachers said ‘It’s not graded.’ I received my scores and threw the score sheet away.</p>
<p>11th Grade came, I retook it with more vigilance, but for the writing and critical reading part, I just slept and bubbled a design on my test. Of course, that brought my score, SAT equivalent of, 1230. This time, instead of being carefree and feign enthusiasm, I worked my butt-off for the upcoming SAT to end up with 1500 (Average, but a very disappointing score). 450 CR + 450 W + 600 M</p>
<p>12th Grade came, I studied the whole summer - not efficiently, but yes I did study - to get a score of 1630. Now I am slowly losing my faith in myself; therefore, I stopped working hard, but yes I still work for it chunks by chunks. </p>
<p>I’d like to ask CC, what is my potential score that I may get on upcoming, December 6th, SAT? </p>
<p>A similar score to your previous one unless you’ve done or do some very substantive work before the next sitting. I urge you to study! I am a firm believer that anyone can do very well on this test if thought is put into preparing. Good luck!</p>
<p>Whether peer group, paid tutor, or homunculus, you need a support team to hold you accountable, remind you of the payoff, and cheer you on. You can do this! Change your environment, get supports, and get on it! It is a sprint to the finish at this point. Just push on through!</p>
<p>Rethink your studying strategy. Seriously, when I first took the SAT I, too, thought it was IMPOSSIBLY HARD AND AKSJDNKAJSD. However, I now can confidently tell you that this test can be beaten.</p>
<p>1st thing you need is motivation. WHY are you taking the SAT? To get into a good college! If you have a dream school or a dream career in mind, make that your motivation. You’re doing this test to get there.</p>
<p>Though almost anyone (more than 95% students) can work hard and get a great SAT score, say over 2300 but I don’t think these scores can come out from just studying SAT alone. If you look at grades and GPA’s of students scoring above 2300, you will see that they are high achievers. Sure there can be exceptions, like someone from a very competitive high school or very rigorous load (still high achievers but not on transcript) but generally speaking they are good students. What a student has done for last 4 years in Maths classes in English classes and what books he read, what book reports he/she wrote and what Science subjects were taken to analyze data and think critically all contribute to the SAT preparation.
That being said the other important factor also is what someone said above, rethink your SAT preparation strategy. Do you go over your practice tests and single out the mistakes you make and identify the area of weaknesses in all subjects? That is the biggest key.
Also if you can afford it, engage a reputable personal Tutor for couple of weeks to give you a solid personalized plan that fits you. (Note: I am not a tutor, nor do I recommend this for everyone, but since you have tried independently and not improved much).
And lets say you try and try and cannot score above 1700 or 1800, that is not end of the world (Though I hope you score a lot more). Take admission in any good college or University in a program that interests you and work hard and focus. If you truly love what you are studying, eventually you will succeed (I know I sound like your 5th grade Teacher but it is, what it is). There are more battles in life… in future, GRE or GMAT or USMLE or MCAT being amongst others.</p>
<p>Study vocabulary! Most people I know who got “pretty decent” CR scores sucked at vocabulary. Once they mastered the word list, they can achieve 650+ and even 700+ in CR. Direct hits might be the easiest and most efficient way to deal with the words. I know it might sound kind of crazy to learn thousands of high-level words in a few days, but cramming is much better than detachment. And DH really works pretty well. Besides, if you routinely read reputable blogs and newspapers, you should find SAT words are actually pandemic. Learning them never harms. As for the passage-based questions, the best way is to find the clue in the passage. Whims do lead people go astray in most circumstances. </p>
<p>Math is pretty easy for me. The key is to know the rules of math and how to work out a function, at least by calculator. Translating English to equations and functions is the key. Also pay attention to tricks. A question, for example, might as for 1/x while putting the value of x in the options.</p>
<p>For writing section, learn grammar. Do practice questions as you learn and after you learn. They are rules and rules are limited. Crack them down one by one and writing section should be easy. For the essay, show your insightful thoughts and reasoning process. It is kind of like teaching a baby to walk: be patient and detailed.</p>
<p>Of course, many schools accept January scores. So if you didn’t do well on the Dec test, register for Jan administration. </p>