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Spic-N-SpaN

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I've been out of school for 2 years but need to retake the SAT and do a little better to get a scholarship to go to the college I really want to be in.

I have the official SAT study book (that big blue one) but when I studied out of that before I found its more about learning test taking skills and how to take the test then covering material and learning the subjects.

Good study guides, books, websites, or other resources I should look at?
 
Pay the money to have one of those people teach you that are all about the SAT. The test is a complete scam and they set it up to trick you pretty much. It's all in the way you read the question
 
do a couple sections a day from various test practice books leading up to your test, check all your answers afterwards, and redo any problems you got wrong to make sure you understand them. sat questions tend to follow certain patterns, so if you do enough questions, you will start to get a hang of what they're going to ask.

important strategies to note:

1. since speed is imperative, you shouldn't get hung up on a single question

2. even though you lose a quarter point for getting the wrong answer to a question, if you can eliminate even one answer, then you basically break even over four questions by guessing since there are four answers remaining.

3. on the essay, i've been told to use lots of concrete examples, but i'm sure there are good guides online to help you with that. also, graders are not allowed to fact check you essay, so you can say anything you want, no matter how untrue it may be. for example, my friend wrote about how his rwandan friend named jack bauer immigrated to the united states and opened a successful car wash. he got a 10 or 11 out of 12...

4. questions are pretty much ordered from easier to harder, so it's probably easier to start at the beginning of each section.

i think paying for classes is not super helpful, except for maybe the essay, where it's hard to grade your own work. it's probably just easier overall to study on your own.
 
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Only portion you need to have a tutor for is the essay section cause they want a cookie-cutter essay. I just asked my friends what their tutors told them to do and did alright on it but I don't think colleges care much about the essay.

You can't really prepare for the SAT, it measures all of the knowledge you've developed in life. You're not going to be able to study for something like that.

The smart kids who didn't have tutors or classes and did very little preparation crushed all of the kids who did a ton of prep.

Better off spending your time on extracurricular activities for your application - or essay applications.

 
Practice tests.

Take as many as you fucking can.

Don't just take them and see what you get, study the ones you got wrong. The section, the type that they are, learn why you missed it.

Also, vocab. You don't need to know every one of those sat vocab flash cards, but know how and when to use bigger words.

Also, try the act if the scholarship will go off of that too. You might be better at the act, you might not. It's less than 100 bucks so you might as well try.

My highest score on the sat was like a low 1800, but my highest on the act was a 32, which is over a 2000 on the sat.
 
i'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. i was able to improve my score pretty dramatically just by doing practice tests. for me, just being used to the format of the test was really useful.
 
learn strategies for the test, intelligence can only get you so far

did you get the one with the dvd?
 
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