SAT Preparation?
October 17th, 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!
What SAT prep books do you recommend? Princeton Review, Barron’s, Peterson’s or Kaplan? (or any other book you find effective) I’m planning on buying some books aside from the ones by Collegeboard and I can’t narrow down my list.
Also, it’ll be my first time to take the SAT and I’m not sure if I’ll actually do well on the June testing considering the fact that I’ve only started studying formally this May (due to a lot of set-backs involving my parents).
I’m an incoming senior this June (we have a different academic calendar) and was wondering if it would be wise to schedule my test on October instead and schedule my subject tests on November.
I know the application deadline is on January and I’ll have to leave time for mail delivery. And I also need to know if my scores are good enough before I send in my applications (I’ll know probably mid-month, right?) or decide if I need to retake any. If they’re good enough, I plan to take other subject tests. Will I have enough time?
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Tags: academic calendar, application deadline, barron, collegeboard, kaplan, mail delivery, parents, princeton review, subject tests
You are smart to get the Blue College Board Book with the 8 official tests. That book is great for practice.
My favorite prep book was Rocket Review. It wasn’t as stuffy as the others.
Take the SAT as soon as possible in case you need to take it again. Take the subjects tests afterwards.
Greetings!
First I do not advise anyone to take the SAT. Instead you should take the ACT. This test is also accredited and accepted by all the colleges and universities you would seek to attend.
The major differences between the two test are that for starters the ACT test is based on high school cirriculum. Thus if you were awake at a given day you will know the answers without having to partake the meaningless ritual of doing SAT type studying which as you can see will cost you money as well as some un-needed stress.
Next bear in mind that SAT sends all the scores of all the tests you take except the practice one. ACT allows you to control the scores and only reports the highest ones.
Now as an aside.
As you are or beginning to look at colleges, you will see statements made by the school as to the "average" SAT score.
These claims if true, would put the average score to get into college about 3 to 4 hundered points higher than what the national scores actually are.
You see there is a lot of smoke and mirrors in a business, and higher education is a business, and business is good.
In closing the single most important thing you can do to get into the college of your choice is to maintain a 3.5 grade average in High School, which would trump any negative test score.
Also because it is a business choose the school early, and do an early admission which will also for a limited number of seats trump the test mechanism.
Good Luck
PS For those students who are not lucky enough to score well, or who may not be considered college material, yet still want to go, need to do the following. Most state education departments require the state run schools to admit a certain percentange of incoming freshman regardless if they meet the requirements for admission.