Need help with preparation for the SAT…?
October 27th, 2009 | 
Author: 
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!
I’m going to be a junior next year, and I’ve been trying to get my score up to at least the 2000 range. I’ve made a litle bit of progress, going from a 1440 to a 1770 this summer, but I’ve had some big problems I don’t know how to fix.
For the math section, I always struggle with the last five problems, which are the most advanced. I just don’t understand how you make up your own equations and see it from a different point of view. It really frustrates me when I don’t know what to do or how to even start it. I look in the back of the book on how they solved the problems, but I always end up feeling stupid after seeing the strange techniques they used… although somehow they make it work. Most of the time I end up leaving these advanced problems blank. How can I get better at this?
By the way, I’m taking the SAT early senior year I think.. and my parents are considering sending me to an SAT prep class for this upcoming year. Has anyone heard of ELITE, or has anyone taken a Princeton Review Class? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Posted in sat questions | 
Tags: different point of view, elite, math section, parents, point of view, princeton review, score, senior year
True, the last few math questions are difficult, but if you get most of the easier ones correct, you’ll still have a pretty high math score. Getting relatively high scores on all three sections of the SAT will improve your score much more than getting a perfect math score and a low reading and writing score.
Don’t worry, after your junior year, your math skills will definitely improve – assuming that you ARE taking math in your junior year. Then you’d be able to answer those problems with no problem. At the very least, you’d be able to determine how to approach them.
And besides, you still have lots of time left. A whole year and 2 summers to prepare? Lucky you
I went to a Princeton Review Class and an effective way they taught me for questions I had no clue on in the math section was to use hypothetical numbers for some questions with variables. You know, those questions with all variables and they ask what will they be if blah blah. Here’s an example I found:
If x / y is an integer, which of the following statements must be true?
I’d have to use an actual number for each x and y that fits with the statement.
Another method was to substitute the answer to see if it fits with the equation.
For example:
Half the people on a bus get off at each stop after the first, and no one gets on after the first stop. If only one person gets off at stop number 7, how many people got on at the first stop?
A) 128
B) 64
C) 32
D) 16
E) 8
I would have to try each of the answer key (try to start from the middle of the answer choices) and see if it indeed matches the scenario. This is effective for things you don’t know at all, because sometimes, you will not "just see" the method to get an answer.
Make sure you pull up your score in the other sections, don’t just concentrate on the math. I’m sure you know by now that vocabulary is very important and knowing all your grammar rules, etc, etc.