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How should I prepare for it?
I live in Long Island and I need an idea of what books are the best books to get to prepare from?
Are there any classes/courses I can join that could help me prepare?
I want to start preparing this year.

2006-11-11 08:11:23 · 8 answers · asked by BoyBeater 1 in Education & Reference Standards & Testing

any ideas on what I should read? books that would especially help me extend my vocabulary?
my parents are pretty much forcing me to start preparing.
i hear that schools do prep courses for kids even in 7th grade and up.

2006-11-11 14:56:17 · update #1

8 answers

don't worry about it this year. really. you have better ways to spend your time.
at this point, my advice would be to read books (literature) outside of school. it's the best way to learn new words, structures, and ideas. the SAT prep books just try to teach you in a few days what you would learn from reading a lot of books, but there's no way that princeton review can be as effective as the real thing.
you have 2 years to go. relax. just keep up in school and try to do interesting things.

EDIT:
don't read those "SAT vocabulary books." they're absolutely crap. read something with a good story and real literary merit, like dickens or austen. you don't have to analyze freud or tolstoy, just read books that will challenge you a little. don't try to pack your brain with anything, just let yourself absorb it.
it's really insane how early some people start preparing for standardized tests. 3 hours on a saturday is worth so much less than a head full of real knowledge, and colleges see that. SAT scores count less than your transcript, always. really, just try to stay cool.

2006-11-11 10:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by donlockwood36 4 · 0 0

Thing is, courses are designed to maximize your test taking abilities. They give you test taking strategies. That will boost your score a few points, maybe quite a few if you just suck at taking standardized tests. But it won't really help get big gains.

The reason is that the SAT (and later, GRE or GMAT or any of these) are designed to test what you know in general. That's very different than a classroom, where they test on what you know in specific. English is a good example: No one in their right mind remembers all the different tenses and usage rules, but the really high scorers will have an innate ability to "hear" the right vs wrong answer. The way they know is by reading literature for the last 5 years. Same with math - the high scorers just "know" how to approach a math problem. They know because they've been studying math consistently all through Jr High and High School.

The best thing by far is to keep yourself busy academically. Don't slack off on taking hard classes. Take math each year. Take physics. Take advanced English courses that make you write essays and read literature. Keep reading, keep practicing and you'll have all the tools you need to slaughter the SAT and go wherever you want for college.

2006-11-11 20:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by ZenPenguin 7 · 0 0

HEy! I'm a ninth grader too, and serious bout the SAT and PSAT too.
~Well what ive been doing is actually doing Princeton Review, Barron's and Kaplan's. If you can't find those books right now, just go to the library, I'm sure they'll have them :)
~Be sure to keep reading and start vocabulary, that's kind of important, and it's not, ya know, a last minute kinda thing.
~And as for the classes, Im 200% sure you can get one somewhere :) i mean, you live in long island.... I'm acutally going to start preparing for the PSAT first, then going on the SAT practice. :)

2006-11-12 00:14:22 · answer #3 · answered by freshprince-ess 3 · 0 0

Check amazon.com other book stores and type in SAT. Ask you teachers for extra help. Yes, there should be summer school courses or a tutor to help you get ready, ask your school to find one. A friend of mine had a tutor and she scored really high on the SAT. Also, I would take the ACT too. Some colleges won't except the SAT. good luck

2006-11-11 08:31:41 · answer #4 · answered by Apple 4 · 0 0

Buy the official book. Do the practice tests. Sign up for the free question per day service at collegeboard.

In the meantime, read a lot. Build up your vocabulary. You have a lot of time. Don't stress too much about it.

2006-11-11 17:35:32 · answer #5 · answered by Gim 3 · 0 0

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2016-09-01 10:55:18 · answer #6 · answered by erlene 4 · 0 0

Buy one of the best revision guides. Write notes, and revise from them the way it fits with you and your schedule. Make sure you will plan everything out, make a revision schedule.

2006-11-11 08:19:01 · answer #7 · answered by DARIA. - JOINED MAY 2006 7 · 0 0

Princeton Review is garanteed to bring your score up. It teaches you how to decode the test.

2006-11-11 09:55:28 · answer #8 · answered by jgk5252 2 · 0 0

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