How can I boost My ACT and SAT scores up in 3 months!? Help!!!?
December 31st, 2009 | 
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Hi and welcome to my blog,
I opened this blog to help anyone who is preparing for his SAT.
I remember myself when I started - I was so lost and in such a panic.
Luckily I got this great SAT guide that helped me a lot . So study hard and good luck!
Well, my idea was to start tutoring at Huntington Learning Center the rest of the summer, but will that help me as much as I need it!? I need to raise my Sat math scores at least 100 points, and my reading 50-70 points. On my ACT I got a 22, but I need at least a 24 to get into the college I want… Is 3 months an adequete time to raise my score that much!? Will huntington be effective at that? I’ve tried books but I cant concentrate and learn without someone there to help me, but tutoring is really expensive. Any other alternatives? Advice would be great, thanks
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Well, find one of the smart kids at your school and see if they’re willing to tutor you for less than others.
I’d advise you just worked on your focus though, because you really need to study on your own. Plus, you won’t have anyone there to hold your hand through the test. Good Luck though!
3 months is definitely enough time.
You don’t necessarily have to get a tutor to help you out.
But, if you feel that you need to go to that extent, do it.
I took an SAT prep class in school, and it did help.
I’d honestly suggest purchasing good books, though.
They include lots of practice tests with explanations for
the answers.
My kid got an awesome score on the SAT critical reading section just from reading a trash novel a day. I know you can concentrate on trash reading!!!
Try the Sisterhood of the traveling pants, and those shopaholic novels. Also John Grisham novels are great. If you like fantasy, try Tamora Pierce.
Start reading and I don’t know if 3 months is enough time, you may have to re-take the SAT in December, but 6 months might be enough time to pull that SAT reading score up. Just read a novel a day, that shouldn’t take all day, you know. I myself polish off a novel in 5 or 6 hours. Read in the early morning or at night, so it doesn’t interfere with your day.
By the way, tutoring is a FANTASTIC way to increase your scores. When you tutor, you discover what you really don’t know, and then you can research and learn. What people don’t realize is that if they tutor another person, their college grades improve for that very reason. Oh, I just realized, you would be getting tutored, not tutoring.
Could you find a friend that needs tutoring, and vow to help that friend? That could get you motivated, as long as you didn’t spend the time gossiping but instead got to work on your math.
I guess you could get tutored, then turn around and help your friend and find out what you didn’t understand that you could ask your own tutor the next day. Then you could read in the early a.m. and at night.
That’s a busy summer, but to pull up those scores you have to have at it. You are asking a lot in a few months, and this will take a serious investment of your time. How bad do you want to pull up those SAT scores?
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Guide-guide-include-tests/dp/0768919754/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5171121-1577758?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182285452&sr=8-1
I know you don’t like books…but this one works. It is the only book directly from the makers of the ACT, it is cheap and has 3 good practice tests. Bumped me up from a 27 to a 30. Some hints for you on the test are:
-for english, the shortest answer is usually the best one
-and for english, when the question says omit this portion, it is correct to omit it most of the time
-for science just go slowly and make sure you look at each question carefully
-eat breakfast.
Focus on the SAT, since it is more universally accepted than the ACT. I got 2 perfect scores in math and reading, but my writing score was only 720, for a total of 2320. I only read this SAT guide, and that is how I got such high scores:
http://www.guideparadise.com/index.php?option=com_guides&task=buy&id=10
I recommend this guide to anyone seeking to get a higher score to get into a first choice college.