Why Is My SAT Score Dropping Despite Studying Every Day?
I have been studying every day in the past month for the August SAT and taking Bluebook tests, but my score keeps decreasing. I really need a 1550+ for the college I'm aiming for, but this is genuinely bad and I don't know what to do at this point.
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Understanding why you get things wrong is much more important than just shoving new material into your head on repeat. If you are just doing practice problems w…
So after I review everything on my practice test, should I start doing the College Board question bank?
Yes, absolutely. In my personal experience, getting questions wrong and reviewing them was always more impactful for learning because it forces you to fixate on…
What about math? Should I watch videos to learn Desmos tricks first, or focus on learning how to solve the advanced math concepts I am struggling with?
You need to learn the core concepts first, because Desmos cannot set up a word problem for you or tell you what to solve for. Relying too heavily on memorized D…
For the reading and writing section, is it better to just trust your intuition and answer what makes sense?
Not everyone has that intuition, so you absolutely need to learn standard English conventions like punctuation and subject-verb agreement. It makes up about 25%…
What do you do for the words in context questions? There are over a thousand words and I can't memorize all of them.
Understanding why you get things wrong is much more important than just shoving new material into your head on repeat. If you are just doing practice problems w…
What if the vocabulary words are still too complicated and I cannot eliminate any of the answer choices or derive the roots?
Unless you read extensively, you won't know every word on the SAT. It is an actual testing strategy to make your best guess on those and save that time for comp…
Is it realistically possible to jump from a 1300 to a 1550 in a single month of studying?
Based on those numbers, it is highly unlikely to hit a 1550+ that quickly. You shouldn't just waste practice tests; you need to do an in-depth study of all the …
How many hours a day should someone be studying to see consistent improvement?
About 2 to 3 hours a day is solid. But you have to protect your sleep schedule—waking up early and getting your brain used to operating at its best in the morni…