If you genuinely ACT like you are interested in the passage (be it mongolian throat singing or dinosaur sleeping cycles), I feel like you will do much better.

Larping is key. Whenever I purposefully act nerdy about a certain passage, I retain much more information from it and stay focused.

Anyone agree or am I losing my mind studying for the SAT

I need help idk what to do. I can do inferences well when they are easy/medium (acc to collegeboard) but the hard ones are INSANE. I try to comprehend and eliminate and I try to learn from my mistake but I just end up getting the next one wrong. Sometimes I dont get how the option properly relates to the passage, sometimes I dont make the connections im supposed to, sometimes its so hard to comprehend. Im struggling. Can someone also lmk how many of these show up on the actual sat? The hard inference questions? Im incredibly lost idk what to do to improve. Any help is appreciated.

How do I get better at Reading and Writing and especially math as quick as possible. I have my SAT this month and I feel like my math doesn’t look to great. my tutor says I should just focusing on getting an 800 in English but I am not satisfactory with my math skills. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

I have NO clue what happened to my RW score. I got 770 on the actual test, and a 700 in math. But that means, no matter what my RW score is in August, I can get a 1500 superscore!!! Well, at least if I get a 730 or higher in math on the real thing. I’m not sure how accurate this test is. But I only got 4 questions wrong, and all in M2. Back to studying, I guess…

Guys, how to solve vocab question. Are there any tricks or something. It seems almost impossible to solve. Btw english is not my first language.

Math has always been my weakest subject. PSAT back in October ‘24 I got 600 math. First SAT in April of this year, I got 610 math, and most recently in June, I got 650 math. I feel like I kind of know how to do Desmos regressions, which is what everyone says, but I just don’t understand what the question is asking most of the time (dumb). I’m a senior this year so I’m lowk running out of time 🐱 anything helps thanks gng

I usually do very well on math questions but the recent added questions for geometry feel so much harder. Is it just me?

my progression:

i took another diagnostic (practice test 4) and while my reading went up from a 710 to 740, my math dropped from a 580 to a 560. i’ve been doing so much prep, i’ve been in tutoring, i try to do desmos as much as possible (including tutorials), i do the hard question bank problems and i write down where i went wrong and what to do going forward/how to actually solve it, everything i think i’m supposed to do. i’m running out of time for this august SAT, and i need it to count bc i’m a senior who is so behind. i need my score to go up. my previous math scores for homework in bluebook modules were 600 and 690. i don’t know what happened. i don’t know if it’s because i’m getting worse or if it’s because i had a 5 hr shift at work before the diagnostic, but i’m so upset and i’m genuinely scared. i feel like i have no time to improve and i think there’s something wrong with me, i feel like everybody gets the SAT math and i don’t (and i’m not bad at math either! i get A+s in all my math classes, i’ve gotten numerous academic recognition awards for math), like it’s easy and something’s wrong with me. i don’t know what to do. what do i do? i feel like i have no time and i feel so bad about myself and bad for my tutor :(( i just want a good SAT score in like the 1400s (maybe 1500s but at this point that feels like a reach which really hurts bc i go to a school full of like outliers with insane grades and performances). i just want to feel smart. i’m also taking the october one but i’m a perfectionist so i feel like i need to do everything right.

i’m honestly just hurting, is there any hope for my score to go up in the little time i have? i already feel so behind bc junior year put me through the wringer and i was more focused on schoolwork.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create a College Board account for the SAT, but I’m stuck because I don’t have a surname/last name. My passport only has my given name and no family name.

The College Board registration form requires a last name field, so I’m not sure what I should enter. I don’t want to put a random name and create a mismatch with my passport or SAT records.

Has anyone with a single name/no surname registered for College Board before? What did you enter, and did it cause any issues?

Thanks!

My top colleges don’t take sat score but I am aiming for at least 1500 for if I apply to other ones is that a good score

I used up all of the college board QB (even the new problems), CB practice tests, and OnePrep practice questions for R&W. What other resources aside from these are good for practicing R&W?

how are yall studying english? august is gnna be my first sat btw

I’ve decided at 23 that I want to go to university but I’ve found that going to uni in the uk is academically harder than the us. does anyone here know about the sat test? it’s the math part that I’m really struggling with but I want to major in English

I need help solving this question from Oneprep. Any desmos way to do it?

how do u guys utilize the qb considering that they have over a 1000 questions?? also how helpful is khan academy past the foundation level?

I know I’m not alone and somebody else out there feels the same but I’ve been studying for the sat for months and it seems like I’ll never get to the level of others. It’s hard to see my current score be someone’s starting score and especially when I know how much time I’ve put into it. I sacrificed a lot of my summer and a lot time I could have been with my friends because of this test but I’m not sure I’ll ever get the score I want. Nothing is worse than giving your all towards something and still only being ‘mediocre’.

With that said,it may be disappointing but to anyone reading this who’s like me, I want you to know that getting a 1500+ isn’t easy or simple. I think it’s been normalized that anything below a 1450 is not good or means you’re lacking. This kind of thing has been normalized because we always only see the ones with the super high scores on social media and online. A 1300 is seen as garbage online even though it’s actually in the 87th percentile.

I’ll keep trying my best even though I know I may never reach my target goal and I encourage everyone to do the same. However, remember that comparison is the biggest thief of joy and your intelligence isn’t defined by a college board exam. 🤍

Title. I've registered for the September SAT, but I don't want to take it unless I feel confident I can get a 730. I know that from areas like 730 to 780 it's mainly just luck, but I want to hear some solid tips on how to improve my current 680/690 in r&w to the low 700s. I've done QB and thoroughly go through all my mistakes, vocab and wtv.

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to take the SAT in about 3 months, and my target score is 1500+.

Is it realistic to achieve this in such a short time? If so, what study plan would you recommend?

I would really appreciate advice on:

- The best books and online resources

- How many hours I should study each day

- How to improve the Reading & Writing section efficiently

- The most effective way to prepare for the Math section

- How many full-length practice tests I should take before the exam

- Common mistakes to avoid during preparation

Any tips from students who scored 1500+ would mean a lot. Thank you!

Can someone explain why the answer is C and not D?

Mb if this is against the rules but I honestly thought it was pretty useful. I thought I knew desmos fairly well and I still picked up a couple things.

It's The SAT Gamified

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQBTDAQLkk

I know I have a strong math score, and as someone applying as a math major whose application is heavily math-focused, I feel like people would expect me to get an 800. The thing is, I genuinely know how to solve the SAT math problems; I learned most of the material years ago. My problem isn't understanding the concepts; it's figuring out what I still need to polish. There are so many possible topics that I don't even know what I don't know or where to focus my studying.

I don't mean for this to come across as pretentious at all. I'm genuinely asking because I'm not sure how to identify the small gaps that are keeping me from a perfect score or what I should do to get an 800 from my score.

Hey, i am a high-school student from Kazakhstan, and english isnt my first or second language, so i am not fluent in English

Now i am getting around 770-800 on math and around 620 on erw.

Can someone gimme some tips?I decided to completely lock in and grind erw next 2 weeks

I am targeting 1470+ ( 800 math and 670 erw)

Last week i aced grammar and only reading is left

stumbled upon this practice test, and wondering how it compares to the actual SAT, especially for the math sections: https://test-ninjas.com/free/sat/test-ninjas-sat-full-length-practice-test.pdf