More updates coming soon – but in the meantime, this is still pretty much the wrong way to go!
The Wrong Way to Get Ready for an SAT
Most test-takers approach the SAT with a points-focused mindset: I need a score of __00 to get into a ‘Good School.’ (We talk more about what’s a ‘Good Score’ in the Q&A.) They take a practice test, see they need to improve 300 points, for example, and then … what? Maybe they analyze their weaknesses by subject – Critical Reading is much lower than Math, for example. So they buy a copy of ’10,000 Words You Must Know If You Want to Have a Prayer of Passing the SAT,’ or whatever the book of the month might be, or they download the latest vocabulary app, cram for the next four weeks and wonder why their new practice test looks pretty much the same as the old one.
Or they buy a book of practice tests, thinking if they just keep taking more tests their scores will improve. (For those of us who have ever tried dieting, this isn’t all that far off from getting on the scale every day and hoping the pounds are simply melting away, without actually exercising or changing our eating habits in between. Been there, done that.) And they find that’s not working, either.
So what works? Start here …
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