what would you recommend? If it helps, I'm taking the reasoning one, not the single subject one...
2007-02-07 15:37:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
well, for sample tests, i recommend the official collegeboard book. it offers 8 real sats so that you can get a sense of the difficulty and perhaps also which areas you need to focus on more.
2007-02-10 16:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by buckyball 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes, you should get yourself a book, preferably from the library, and do all the tests in it timed as you would be for the real test. Taking the test is partly a matter of stamina, so force yourself to go through the pain of sitting there for as long as it takes. However, before you do all of that, I would at least focus on some math tricks that will help you get through more quickly. There are a few simple mathematical concepts that many questions can be built upon. What is the formula, in the most basic sense, for finding a percentage, for instance? Once you have things like that memorized (and please don't bother with obscure constants or coefficients, they won't be in there) you can easily plug in the information they give you and get the information that they don't. There are a lot of problems that are based on simple concepts like percentages or fractions. They are often couched in word problems or "strange" looking setups. The ability to crack these problems to find the essentially easy problem contained within is what these books will give you.
As for the verbal section the best preparation is years of reading. If you haven't worked that angle yet, I would suggest learning words in groups around a concept; words that have to do with love or hate, words from colors, e.g. Also try and see connections from the roots of words. Any prefix plus -phobia means "fear of", you know that already. But what about a word like perspicacity? it contains the same root as spectacles and means "having the ability to see the truth of the matter". so, the idea is insight, which itself has the concept of vision involved. That may be too specific of an example, but I think you can see where I'm going with that.
So, study up by reading the books. They have a lot of good tricks in them for "beating" the test - and most of those tricks are good. With 100 hours of studying you can easily raise your score by 100 points and probably more. And please don't forget, right before the test, relax.
You can do it.
2007-02-08 00:01:25 · answer #2 · answered by Trenton D 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Princeton review has a fairly good book. It helped me alot, and they have practice tests in the back that you can take, and the answers to check yourself. That's all I did and I got a pretty good score.
2007-02-07 23:41:31 · answer #3 · answered by Jordan D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋