Where to begin...1350 SAT

olivia333
Sun, 09 May 2010 09:41:13 +0000

The way you wrote it you got a 1350 with all three scores? so about 450 on each part?
You should put your scores for each section up. CR and Math are the two most important; most east coast colleges don’t even look at writing.

First, your book score isn’t your real score. Each part can go up or down 30 or so points because the SAT is based on everyone’s scores to get a bell curve, not just how many you got right or wrong.

Now, get an SAT prep book, one that explains how to do everything and has at least 4 practice tests. Review your math definately; that’s the one thing you can really study for. Critical reading is more difficult but still look over the tips (if your score is that low you’ll need to use them). If you can, start reading a lot so you will learn to read faster so you can answer more CR questions.
Look over sentence mechanics section next. How a ; is used and comma splices are in a lot of the sentence questions.
When you’re done take all of the practice tests, then review the questions you got wrong (there should be explinations in the back of the book).

If I’m all wrong and you really got a 1350 on two parts then that’s good. You don’t need to panic because it’s a fine score that will get you into most private colleges except ivy league. You know the concepts you just need to apply them, so just review.

Finally, retake the SAT at least once. With little studying my score went up 150/170 points (M+CR/M+CR+E) the second time I took it in my senior year. I was happy with my score so I didn’t take it again.

If your SAT is still really bad then think about the ACT if the college you want to go to accepts that. It has a very easy graph-based science part, and most people score higher on the ACT then the SAT.