Submitting your score will provide a more complete picture of you as a student and give admissions officers more to review when considering your admission. The means of determining a good SAT score for a non-test-optional university applies to test-optional schools, too. Your goal SAT score is at or above this average score.
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I once sat in a coffee shop next to a girl who was trying to study chemistry. Every few minutes she would look at her phone, laugh, and return a text. She got through two pages in an hour—I kid you not.
Treat this seriously. When you're trying to get a perfect SAT score, you'll get frustrated when you make mistakes. I was the same way, and I got mad at myself for making careless mistakes or for forgetting something I used to know. Treat every mistake as a learning opportunity. Every mistake tells you exactly where your weakness is, and what you need to do to fix it.
You are allowed to get upset, but not so much it paralyzes you. Instead, treat your primary goal as getting better—not as getting a specific score. Now that you're aiming for a top score, you need to finish each section ahead of time to give yourself time to double check your answers.
A good rule of thumb is to finish the section with at least 5 minutes to spare. As you get better at the SAT, this will be easier to accomplish since you'll solve each question in less time. I would mark any questions that I felt I had to return to and double-check. I had enough time to review all my answers twice. The real time-killers are questions you get stuck on.
It's very easy to get sucked into a question for five minutes, frustrated that the SAT is taking a point away from you. Avoid this temptation. Follow this rule: if you've spent 30 seconds on a question and can't see how you're going to get to the answer, circle the question, and skip it.
You'll have time at the end to come back to it. For now, you need to work on the other questions. How do you double check effectively? It varies between sections. For math, you should try to re-solve the question quickly in a different way. For some questions, you'll be able to plug the answer back in. For others, you'll just need to check your steps you took the first time around. For writing, confirm that the sentence has the error you think it does.
Again, for No Error answer choices, make sure you aren't missing something in the question. For reading, confirm that there is no other better answer choice than the one you picked. For passage questions, make sure you rule out four incorrect answers. For sentence completion questions, plug the words back into the blanks to make sure they fit perfectly.
As you get better at the test, you'll have more time left. Aim for at least 5 minutes left after each section, and use that time to double-check your answers. Stay calm during the test, even if you get confused on a question. If you're vying for a perfect score, you'll face pressure during the test. You know how little room for error there is.
This means that if you're having trouble with a question, it's easy to psyche yourself out. I'm having trouble with this math question. If I don't get this right, my in math is gone! This vicious spiral can suck you down for the rest of the test.
Controlling your mental status is important during the test. Just like a pro athlete or performer, you need to be confident about your skills. You already put in a ton of work, and you've learned most of what the College Board has to throw at you. The last thing you want to do now is ruin more of the test. So it's a single question you're unsure about—this doesn't affect your performance on any other question.
Try your best and clear your head, then move on. I can say from personal experience that these are the principles that I used to excel in academics. If you follow these principles for your own classes and in college, you'll do an amazing job. I would also be hard-pressed to find any top scoring student who doesn't agree wholeheartedly with the advice above.
This advice also works if you're not aiming for a If you want to improve from a to a , you can use these principles to power your learning. These principles also work in life. As a startup founder, I adhere to lean principles to constantly analyze where my weaknesses are, how to build them, and how to focus on what's really important for our company. While the SAT tests specific skills that you may not use in everyday life, the process of preparing for it can teach you a lot about yourself, your limits, and your ambitions.
This sounds a little hokey, but take it from this old man, you can learn a lot about yourself. Finally, keep in mind that you don't need a to get into top colleges! If you get a , your time is better spent building up the rest of your application than eking out a few more points. Quick Plug: I've mentioned my company PrepScholar a few times.
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How to Get a Perfect 4. How to Write an Amazing College Essay. A Comprehensive Guide. But since perfection is difficult to achieve, what score range is classified as good?
Understanding the answer to this question requires an overview of the SAT scoring process. According to the College Board , student success is determined by their percentile rank — how they compare to other students who took the test.
Anything above would be considered a great score. In , this meant the average SAT score was between and Anything above this score would be considered good, and anything below it might cause concern. The lowest possible score someone can get on the SAT is a , which would mean that both writing and math scores were tallied at And while it all depends on the percentile that other students scored in, the benchmark for evidence-based reading is and the benchmark for math is , totaling The benchmark is used as a baseline.
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