I got a lot of strategies mainly from this book, the test question breakdowns seem useful. SAT Black Book: Pretty helpful, but I didn’t go through the entirety of it. I’m sure you guys already know how great a resource it is. R/sat: Very helpful! People are nice and they explain things well. Really tackling different sections and analyzing my mistakes helped a ton, especially nearer to the test day. I really enjoyed their articles and I think that they offer pretty good advice. Prepscholar: I didn’t use their prep program, but they have a wide variety of articles on pretty much everything from specific question type guides to time management. Some other resources I used and my rating: This isn’t really a good idea if you aren’t comfortable with the timing of the SAT) (I usually never skipped a question when I was stuck on it. I’d look at the scope of the problem as well. If I was stuck between two answers, I’d look even closer at the language of the question and I would try and reason why one answer was wrong. For writing, that means remembering grammar rules (honestly I did most of the writing by ear, which isn’t really helpful if you’re not that strong with the nuances of English). For reading, that meant recalling and going back to parts of the passage that concerns the question as well as thinking about the main idea. For math, that means solving a question and “predicting” what result the problem would lead me to. I’d go along solving the problem as usual, comparing my results as I go along and crossing out any answers that are definitively wrong. I note the differences between the answer choices and I “split” them into the components that made them different. This method is a part of the SAT Black Book, which I used to supplement my studying. I’d then look at the answer choices and use the “vertical scan” method. With reading, there’s usually one word that invalidates a wrong answer. Especially in reading, when there are two answers that you are struggling to pick between, looking at EVERY WORD of the question can help. Often times, the test itself can lead to a certain answer. I’d look closely at the language of the question. I find that writing/underlining the answer they are looking for helps. Too many times I’ve gotten questions wrong simply because I overlooked what the question was looking for. I’d read and reread the question and answer choices. I would go in with the mindset that I wasn’t always going to be searching for the right answer as much as I was proving three of the answers wrong. For different sections, I did have different methods but I’ll get to those another time) (This is a pretty general way I used to attack problems. It was the method I used when answering these questions. I completed 2700+ questions on Khan, but it wasn’t the mindless practice that helped me. The resource that I found helped me the most was Khan. I wasn’t as meticulous as some other users, but I made a mental note of the types of problems I previously got wrong in the past, and I noted new ways to tackle problems more efficiently. It’s about the effort on your part to really understand your mistakes. My growth over the summer is primarily attributed to the study method and the mindset I adopted below.įrom my experience, gaining better scores isn’t only dependent on what resources you use. For $2000, I only got about 5 actually applicable tips. I attended Elite over the summer of 2019 but I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT (or any other prep class for that matter) as it didn’t significantly help me get to the next level. In that time I took all 10 official tests, 3-4 QAS tests, 1 Barrons test, and 6 Elite tests. So I spent from June 2018 to August 2019 slowly improving around 280-300 points. My first unofficial PSAT was 1290 (taken in June 2018), my first SAT diagnostic was 1310 (taken in July 2018), and my highest score prior to the actual SAT was a 1580 (800 R&W, 780 M, taken in August 2019) on an Elite practice test. It’s an experimental process, and you have to find what works best for you) (Keep in mind that what worked for me might not work for you. Of course, resources did help but my personal methods that I developed along the way helped as well. People often ask me what resources I used but I feel it was a lot more than just resources that pulled me through. So I saw a thread that u/boredandusingreddit posted about how they got their 1590 and I wanted to share some of my tips as well.
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