There's part of the preparation that remains up to you. Are you willing to put in the effort and the time to get the score of 2200+ on SAT? It is going to take some serious studying. Are you willing to read dictionary front-to-back in order to increase your vocabulary, to write essays within a time constraint until you feel comfortable? Also to devote yourself wholeheartedly to the task of major score revision? It comes down to how badly you want this.
Students who do well on the SAT tend to be good readers who possess a good vocabulary and who can sustain the pressure of answering questions in short time as the test requires you to deal with nine sections. If you have already given mock tests for the SAT, you must first and foremost try and understand why you could not score as well as you would have liked to in each section.
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- Were you careless while answering the Math section and did not read the questions carefully or completely? Did you solve the questions correctly yet marked the wrong answer? If yes, then you must practice and drill more.
- Did you miss out on answering questions because of lack of time? Then you must work on your pacing. Allocate a good amount of time across questions by identifying the difficulty level of the questions. Make sure that you get the easy and medium ones right for sure and then tackle the hard ones.
- Did you skip questions because you had no idea on how to answer them? Then you need to review the content. You can also try elimination as an answering technique. Train yourself to look not only for the right answer but also understand the reasons why the wrong answers are wrong. This is especially true of the reading section where it’s common to get stuck between the right answer and a wrong answer.
Vocab – first you need to make sure you've got a good amount of time to study. If you're going to get your Reading score up to the 700s you certainly need to improve your vocabulary. Try to aim at learning forty to fifty words per week. If you learn 600-800 new words, you probably won't see more than a dozen or so on the test. But that could mean the difference of fifty points or more on Reading.
Practice timed sections - The SAT Official Guide and the Practice SAT Tests from Princeton Review both have practice sections that are designed to be just like the real test. The more realistic your practice, the better your performance during the actual test will be.
You may need professional help - Improving Reading scores tend to be trickier than improving Math scores. If you are really serious about improving your reading scores by more than 100 points, then it would make sense to consult a professional coach or institute.
Because Writing and Critical Reading sections go hand in hand, practicing more and more questions from one of these sections should help you increase your score in the other.
Ideally, center your study around these topics -
- SAT vocabulary
- Revising sentences for clarity
- Grammar
- Skimming through a passage for important information
- Reading comprehension
- Understanding sentences in context
- Extracting the main idea
- Go through reviews books as they will tell you all you need to know
- Understanding different meanings and synonyms of a word
If you can get a review book, then please get a review book as soon as possible. They are incredibly helpful as the good ones are packed with tons of helpful hints and strategies that can propel your SAT game to a whole new level.
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Let’s make a goal score checklist. You're confident that you can get a 780 in Math. Let's say that you get 770 in Math. That still means there is 1430 points still left to get to 2200. It is reasonably simple; all you have to do is score a 730 in Writing and get your Critical Reading score up to a 700.
You need a score plan in front of you all the time as it will give you a goal to accomplish. You will know what you are supposed to score in which section. Half of the time it will be your hard work, but you need to stay motivated for the rest of the time to get where you want to.
The difficulty level of SAT depends on the student's preparation and background of academia. Though SAT exam is designed based on student's high school knowledge hence, those who have prepared well keeping the syllabus in mind and with ample practice may find the SAT exam easy. The level of SAT difficulty may vary person to person and ofcourse based on the level of understanding and preparation also. While a million students appear for SAT exam, only 25,000 get through it.
There is no set rule which applies when it comes to preparing for SAT exam based on the given cutoff by a specific university. Applicants can check their knowledge by first attempting a mock test and then begin their SAT preparation. Based on each section's performance applicants can set targets for certain topics and attempt them as and when they progress with their SAT exam syllabus. This way strong areas will get stronger and weak areas will also get some attention. Also attempting mocks before appearing for the main exam is also a must. This way applicants will either fall in the SAT cut off as published by the university or they can appear for the exam once more if at all required.
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