Practice resources:

Reading comprehension: Read a couple of ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/ articles every day. I know. Doing something other practice questions feel unproductive, but improving reading questions require comprehension improvements. Also, articles on there are nearly IDENTICAL to those of SAT. If you read them, you'll quickly understand the close similarity.

Math: The question bank is useful to an extent, but other frequently tested, harder question (q15+) types are not covered. If you want to truly understand all math question types, I highly recommend PrepPros' ultimate course. It only costs $90, compared to overpriced external tutors. If not for this comprehensive resource, I could not have gotten an 800. Personally, I took calc bc in my sophomore year and have a solid math foundation that I built, but I could not identify unusual problem patterns that are not usually tested in school but are on the SAT under test conditions. If you are like me and not gifted and have worked your way up, it may be hard to recognize those patterns under nervousness, so I heavily recommend covering all the types in that course. It also has 150 hard questions that are the caliber of q18+ on the SAT. Again, it comes back to my personal experience, but really trust yourself, especially under a time crunch in the q15+ of Math Module 2.

Even in days in which you may doubt yourself, continue to reflect on your mistakes and grind and grind! Especially in the math section, if you feel the pressure of time on the last, harder questions, trust yourself that you can do it. That confidence may remind you of past content or question patterns that may help you out.

Standardized tests' question types are fixed, but your test attitude is not. It may sound cliche, but it is really true.

Who's going to believe in you if you don't believe in yourself.

Once you're around 1300, you stop going from getting smarter to just breaking the system.

I studied for the SAT during COVID and ended up getting a 1500 after 6 years. But most of the time was actually just devoted to learning how the test worked and memorizing its question types, rather than actually learning. Take, for example, vocabulary, which isn't particularly helpful to me as an engineer.

Everything from learning that em dashes and commas mean the same case (in which circumstance none of the answers are right) to Desmos tricks that can only help on math sections, the SAT has stopped serving its purpose for high-achieving students.

This is especially prominent since T20 schools often reject students for 30-40 differences, often attributed to who learned the test better.

What do you think?

Guys I can’t tell if I’m getting pranked is the SAT actually giving people a science score in 2027???

Do I have to report that score to colleges or is it optional?

As far as I'm aware, each practice test contains a Module 1 + A relatively easy Module 2 or the harder one.

So, each practice test contains:
27 questions * 3 modules = 81 questions for RW
22 questions * 3 modules = 66 questions for math

81 questions * 8 practice tests= 648 RW active questions
66 questions * 8 practice tests= 528 Math active questions

1845 total RW questions - 648 active questions = 1197 nonactive questions
1925 total Math questions - 528 active questions = 1397 nonactive questions

Where are the rest??

so for me to get into med skl in my country i need atleast a 1580 ,most of my mistakes are accuracy issues idk how to fix them. does anyone have any advice

I did the free practice test and got a 780. I'm also planning on doing the 125 or just the hard/medium questions of the 125.

I'm tending to study in Europe(germany, particularly) as an international student. I wonder if there is some kind of a date for the universities' applications to end. So I can take the previous SAT exam as my last. I don't want to miss the early application deadlines cuz I desperately need a good amount of scholarship.

Giving the SAT hopefully on the 7th, the blue book tests seem a tad bit too easy, any other sites that can help for more accuracy in terms of the actual test difficulty?

Right now, almost all competive students for top schools are getting near perfect scores. A single mistake or too can drop ur sat a lot, so schools can’t really distinguish. However this is a huge gap among those people. If they increase the celing, it’s easier to highlight proffenicy, and in a better way for schools to see.

Hi! I have a 1340 superscore(730 reading and 610 math) from Oct test. I am trying to aim for a 1450 minimum by Nov 7th, and I have been studying, but it’s mainly the practice exams. What resources can I do to improve 110 points in math?

I’m planning to take all the practice tests but I’m not sure about the difficulty level of each one and don’t want to end up leaving the hardest ones till last. If anyone has completed all of them what do you think is the best order to take them? And are there any which can be left out?

For practice tests 4-11 on bluebook, is module 2 for math and RW a mix of difficulties or the harder or easier module in comparison to real tests?

Hello everyone, I am in 11th grade and have took 2 PSATs this year (1 for school 1 at home) and 1 in 10th and one in 9th cuz my school has a day where we take PSAT.

also important to note, I get extra time, which I think is +15 mins on every section.

Let me first explain what Im good at and then ill explain my flaws.

on the 9th grade PSAT i got a 99th percentile score, 99th in math and 97th in ELA.

On 10th grade PSAT i did fine, and this is kind of embarassing to admit, but I realy had to go to bathroom during it and missed the last 10 ELA questions or so because I was in the bathroom, but I still got a good ELA score and a pretty good math score.

Now heres the problem: im so slow on the math section this year.

I recently took PSAT for my school, and I think I aced the reading (dont know score yet but I thought it was very easy) but on math I barely finished in time (with extra time) and I actually missed the very last question. I felt very stressed taking it and I feel like I did fine but not great.

Today I took another PSAT at home and I got stuck on a math question for 30 mins, I basically sunk cost fallacied myself and missed half the questions in the first module, so I just ragequit. I think I did good on the ELA part though.

I am generally good at math, I get good grades in math classes and have always throughout my life been one of the best math students in the room, but the issue is as of late ive become a slow worker on math. I still get the questions right but I for some reason find myself needing more time to fully understand what the questions asking and I take a lot of time to write down my work and solve it. I am someone who has had a habit ingrained by teachers to always double check work and plug in etc. I feel like I need to do that, as thats how you do math, you double check and plug in. But on the PSAT all that is gone, it goes from math in school where its double check answers and be precise to, solve as fast as possible, dont double check, speed through it and hope you have time left over. I HATE that.

With the SAT math I dont have time to do my normal process of plug in and double check and really think and use my brain. I dont have enough time to do that and its causing me to get stressed out and not finish modules.

I should probably learn to use desmos better right? Im wondering if anyone has any tips for that. I also just hate how because the time is so short desmos is so important. Looking online for tips, a lot emphasize to use desmos. It kind of feels like a desmos skill competiton instead of math skill sometimes.

Idk I just feel sad and stressed because my parents are very smart and got good SATS and went to ivies, and I am generally smart and get A's and the ELA part feel easy when I do psats. I take my first SAT in a little over a month and I am wondering how I should prep. I understand most of the content Im just a super slow worker.

Thoughts on my 980 PSAT score as a junior?
I recently got my PSAT score back and scored a 980 (450 Reading & Writing, 530 Math). I wanted to see what people on this sub think of my score, especially since I’ve noticed there are lots of perfectionists here 😭
I’m not necessarily looking for validation, just some honest opinions on where I stand and what I should focus on improving before taking the actual SAT.

This is probably gonna be seen by like 2 people, but please all you juniors out there:

please sign up for the ACT NOW. It is so much easier than the SAT and you can study off released tests in the past (find them online) and those released tests are VERY similar in content

Hey everyone, so I gave my second full length SAT-test. Firstly, I got significantly lower score compared to the first test I gave. Last time, I got 1370, in which i got 790 in maths and 580 in english. That was the first time I gave a full dSAT test without any type of prior knowledge or studying. I gave that a while ago since my initial plan was to give SAT early in august however due to unforeseen circumstances, I couldn't give it. I am now giving SAT in dec. I have around 40 days left. I want to get a score of 1500+. I got 740 on the math section, which is pretty good imo. however, I fumbled english side again. I got a low score in that. I am not sure, how I can improve it. I am currently taking a paid sat course, they are good enough but idk. I just take the class first, then read the notes and start solving the certain domain's questions (I do around 10-20 for each). The domains I am done with, I didn't do much mistakes in those. For example, crafts and structure, I got only 2 out of 13 wrong. Anyways, the point of the post is to ask for help. I don't know how to improve my english score. Maybe I am freaking out a bit too much after only doing 2 tests. But I got 1190 this time (740 maths and 450 English). Last time, I got 1370, so thats a DRASTIC change. I would appreciate any type of help!

On my practice tests, I get around 770-800 for maths but 670-710 for r&w. I have 12 days left. How can I improve my r&w score within this short amount of time?

Is the equation I wrote wrong? The answer is B

*I have solved the question in another way already.

Bro how is this even possible to get full bars with a 710. Like what does it mean? Did I get only a few wrong that weighted so much or like 1 or 2 wrong in each section that it doesn’t show. Since I felt pretty confident.

I have to take the sat with very little math knowledge, i was told khan academy prep would be of great help but my question is, would 10~ days of prep be enough to score about 550 in the math section for someone with very basic knowledge of maths? If there’s any other sources or anything that might be helpful send it over aswell!

I rarely encounter these quostetions on Khan Academy and Student question bank, but I am an international student, so many of these are unfamiliar to me, do I need to memorize some?

For context, it's my first year in the US, and my home country's education system taught Math very differently from how it's taught here. There have also been several years throughout my life in which I didn't receive any formal education. So when I took the PSAT 8/9, there were a lot of questions about things I've literally never heard of.

Basically, my problem is that I just don't know what I should be learning/studying, because you don't known what you don't know.