SAT Questions

I’m torn between these 2 choices.They are of the same price but I don’t know which to buy for school use. Please give me your opinion.

1.Dell InspironTM 640m
Intel® CoreTM Duo Processor T2050 (2MB Cache, 1.60GHz. 533MHz FSB
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
512MB DDR-2 SDRAM
60GB SATA-HDD
14.1" WXGA Display
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Acceleratoe 950 up to 224MB of Shared System Memory
About 2.4kg

2.Dell Inspiron 1501
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
512MB DDR-2 SDRAM
60GB SATA HDD
15.4" WXGA Display
ATI RAdoen Xpree 1150 with 256MB HyperMemory
About 2.9kg

I am planning on taking the SAT this upcoming year. Since it’s summer right now, I am hoping I can prepare for the SAT as much as possible. I have a few questions.

1. What is the BEST SAT prep book?
2. Should I take any online/classroom SAT courses? If so, what is the best class?
3. If I study on my own, what is the best way to study for the SAT daily?

Okay over the summer i have bought the Princeton Review 11 SAT and PSAT practice book. Took the october SAT 2009, and scored a 1910.

I want to break the 2000 mark and have decided to take the Princeton Review Classroom Course. With the early bird special promotion (sign up before nov 9) ill get a 5 discount.

for those who have took the course, what should i expect in the class? Are there vocabulary cards that they give you and books? and how does the class run?

Thanks in advance!

when i ask ‘what too look for’ i mean as in gb, mb, just the basic size for my first laptop. i will only be using it for personal, emaill and shopping and school.

I have a 2.5" Fujitsu IDE hard disk that says 40GB. I tested it on my laptop and it detected it as a 40GB. But when I put it on an external enclosure and formatted it on a PC the total size became 22GB.

How come it became 22GB? How can I make it 40gb? I used fat32 because it will have an error on ntfs and it is on a vaio enclosure.

I took my SAT’s for the first time as a sophomore this december. My results were as follows; 570-Reading, 590-Math, 510-Writing 8-essay. My goal score is a 2100 for my last time. For this test I didn’t prepare at all so that I would have a baseline. Will a private tutor help me to rise my score? When should I get it in the middle of my junior year or this year? Are the tutors as helpful as everyone says as well?

I’m a soph. & i wanna start getting some test prep books from like borders or barnes and noble.

I am going to be a senior this year in high school. I currently have a Toshiba laptop and it’s about three years old…still runs real nice for a well-worn computer, but it’s too behind the times for me. Basically, I want to get an updated, not TOO expensive computer (roughly around 0-650 is what I want to spend) that will play specifically The Sims 3. I’d also want it for normal stuff like holding word documents and photos and whatnot, but mainly I just like to use the internet at play the Sims. I am going to go to Best Buy…and I want to know, should I get a desktop, or a laptop? And what specific things should I look for?

I am a freshman in high-school (home-schooled) and i am also in college, i was just wondering if there was an accelerated SAT and ACT Prep course that would help me prepare for the Sat and ACT, and also get me up to date with college algebra, history, science, and english.

Here are a list of things i need in the class:

I need something that will only take 6-12months
I need to be able to track my progress

Well, I’m going to be taking the SAT Subject Tests for Math Level 2 and Physics and I would like to know which prep book (for both subjects) out of these three is the best: Kaplan, Princeton Review and Barron’s. Can you please give me your opinions on each company’s prep book for each individual subject and/or your experiences using them?

Thanks!

So I have an Xbox 360 in my room but my desktop is too far away to easily run an ethernet cable to it. I do however have a laptop with a wireless adapter on it. I did some Googleing and found that people have been able to do this through network sharing. I tried it but still no luck. When the Xbox tests the connection, it retrieves the IP address but it is unable to retrieve the DNS. Anyone got any answers?

Hey I took the World History AP test about mid May and now I am signed up for the World History SAT II. The thing is I just started taking the test on the REA preparation book for SAT II and it is much much much harder and specific then what I encountered on the AP exam. Is the SAT subject test really more specific then the AP test?

Thanks for answering
to first poster, Yeah I know AP classes really are useless, like it doesn’t help only makes it easier to register for classes. But it sort of looks better for colleges along with a GPA boost.
to 2nd poster:……………………………..
to 3rd poster: Yeah like what the heck is the Velvet Revolution I learned nothing that specific and the AP test multiple choice was nothing like that. I didn’t even bother to score my 1st practice test because I did so badly and knew like crud. Hopefully it will be more AP oriented multiple choice.

I am looking to buy laptop. I am looking for a fast laptop with a descent size hard drive. I am looking to use it for school, social networking, video chatting, and watching movies. It must be very durable and last me a long time. Please give me suggestions of laptops that may suit me. Thank you.
I am not a gamer.

Critical Reading : 490
Writing: 570
(MC: 57, Essay:
Math: 450

whats my total score? and if this were my real sat score would it get me into decent colleges?

Can I connect my xbox 360 to my laptop to use my laptop as a controller. I don’t have a controller right now, and I really want to test it to see if it works. I don’t mean connect to xbox live, I just want to use my laptop like a controller. Thanks!

Hi. I am a Sophmore high school student. I took psat and got 35%, 125.
In other words, I failed the test.

I prepared my test my memorizing some SAT words, and by tutoring with a person online. I tutored with a proffessional person, who chrages 40 dollars, but Im not improving. I learned a lot, but Im not improving.

Can you guys recommend me a new SAT online tutor, a site that you guys think can improve me??

My Weakness:
-Vocabs, dont know a single.
-Math, I failed, Im good at school math, but not SAT
-Writing is still terrible, But i know the rules/strategies for writing

Thanks!

Well, I’m going to be taking the SAT Subject Tests for Math Level 2 and Physics and I would like to know which prep book (for both subjects) out of these three is the best: Kaplan, Princeton Review and Barron’s. Can you please give me your opinions on each company’s prep book for each individual subject and/or your experiences using them?

Thanks!

I was wondering if "Gruber’s complete SAT guide 2009" is a good book for preparation of the SAT’s. I am aiming to get around 2200. I just took a practice test, (about a day after i got it) and got 1910. I have about 8 months till i actually take the real exam.
So is this book a good way to increase my score to that fabled 2200 or should i make a transition to another book.
Thank you
p.s. If any of you got high scores in the SAT, a few pointers would be welcome.

I just took a practice exam for SAT with no real preparation at all since last summer. (I attended SAT summer school back in sophmore summer and took online class for SAT in junior year summer)
I got 610 on math, 580 on Reading, and 540 on Writing with 8 on the essay.
If I study over the summer and take the test in the fall of 2008(since I am going to be a senior), what are the chances that I would score over 2000?

Why does my school buy high end computers just to use Microsoft Word and occasionally Internet Explorer? They always complain about not having any money after they buy this stuff for no reason… My old crappy laptop can run those programs just fine and it’s from 1999.
They also complain about not having money for books and paper. We have to supply our own paper FOR THEM.

It looks cool to me. Anybody have feedback on it?

I took the ACT twice with a 31, but I am going to take it once more with A LOT more preparation. Should I bother taking the SAT? I want to go into a top-tier college and I really don’t mind taking it (my parents may look at me weird though, haha). Would it do me any good or should I just stick with the ACT?
I guess I could take it just to see if I do better.