<p>When I checked my score today for my first sat, i was really disappointed that I got a 690 on my math section. Math has always been a strong point for me. I’ve always scored really high in my math classes like calc bc, yet for some reason i just score really low on the math section.</p>
<p>The easy ones i can get, but the last few I always either run out of time and panic or get tricked (probably because of the time constraint). Do you guys have any honest advice? Any study tips/plan that you can impart to a distraught student? Thanks.</p>
<p>SAT math is not math. It’s a test of pure reasoning skills in disguise as a math test. </p>
<p>Improve your ability to solve quantitative problems in general and you improve your SAT math score. Don’t stress so much about techniques and such, 'cuz the actual math is elementary.</p>
<p>School math is something like this: give the formula for the area of a rectangle or give the quadratic formula. SAT math is like this: realize that you have to use the formula because it’s the only way to solve it or take the formula and manipulate it to get the answer.</p>
<p>I have been in the same boat as you. I have gotten A’s in all my math classes (Alg 1 to calculus and statistics…)</p>
<p>At first, i was so frustrated with the SAT 1 Math. I got 670 and 680. I was expecting much higher, but sadly i was stuck with these scores (for a while). I then took the SAT 2 math 2 test and learned that it consisted of more school topics. An 800 on the Math 2 shouldn’t be too difficult if you are good at math because it can be easily studied for, unlike the SAT 1. </p>
<p>I recently retook the SAT after going through a SAT book (mostly math problems) and raised my score by 100 points. A lot of the times it isn’t even math, but you just have to find the easiest way to answer the questions. Don’t spend too much time on one question, but make sure you don’t make silly mistakes (sounds kind of contradicting, but your get the idea). </p>
<p>Don’t be so distraught. When you are scoring in the 670-700s it is hard to raise your score without getting lucky. Since a few questions could change your score so much, you need to pray that you get questions that you know how to do. In the end, a lot of it is based on luck.</p>
<p>i see so many people asking this question. but SAT is school math! it’s exactly school math. just 7th grade math that you forgot right after … 7th grade. </p>
<p>You people probably do so well in school… just for the marks and not for actually learning. therefore although you’ve gotten a good mark, you’ve never actually learned the stuff.</p>
<p>for me, I always do so well on contests or like SAT math, but i fail at school math. School math is so boring, pure memorizing and just long questions with forumlas. contest math contains elegant easy-to-solve questions which requires thinking.</p>
<p>yes that may be true username. the math itself is not that hard at all. its just the way college board asks it thats hard. its just like my high school’s math contest. anyone from freshman on can compete. honestly, i would say most, not all, but most middle school students wouldn’t be able to answer the hardest math questions after being time constrained and having taken the test for 3 hours.</p>