How should I prepare for SAT in three months?

Question

Even if it sounds impossible, I dare to dream. Of course, I'm not really a novice, but i didn't start to prepare at maximum capacity ...
Note: I'm an international student! Give me some good advices !

Answer 1

Work Hard!!! Revise!

Go over your notes. Read through through them. Put your notes away and make a mind map to see what you've remembered (for help on this put mind map into a search engine)
Compare your notes with the mind map and see what you've missed. Read your notes again, make another mind map.
Make posters and put them up on your walls and look at them. Make flash cards - I have different packs of my notes - i,e when I did my A-Levels, I had packs for Chemistry - Foundation, Organic, Inorganic etc. Each was a set of condensed notes, or bullet points on the most important things about that subject. I carried one pack with me everywhere I went and read it on the bus, on the train, in the car (when I wasnt driving!) while I was waiting for friends etc.

Also use lots of colours, things that will jog up your memory. Revise with a friend, or try to explain something to a member of your family that you have learnt in as much detail as you can. You'll find that you need to understand in order to make them understand. Then get the member of your family to test you (using your notes but without you looking!)

Revise for an hour - put away your phone, turn off your internet and concentrate on an hour's worth of solid work, then take a break for 20 minutes and then do another hour. You'll find that three hours worth of work with three mini breaks thrown in to make about 4 hours in total is a lot more productive than sitting there for four hours solid, You'll have had enough after two hours.

I was told at school many moons ago that in order to know something, you should go over it three times - learn it, revise it, revise it again. I wrote myself a list of everything on the syllabus and put a tick next to it each time I went over it.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Eat healthy foods, swim, take piano lessons and relax.

You can not cram for the SAT, you prepare for the SAT. It is not a test you study for. The preparation should have started from birth, receiving a quality education and self-discipline.


Find out if a community college in your area is offering SAT test preparation. Find a kid who scored high on the SAT and get some help. Shut down your computer and get started you have a lot to do. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Of course get the best preperation book for the SAT's that you can (ask your college bookstore which one sells best.)
Then develop a strategy. You only have so long. You know your weaknesses and strengths.
Handle this like an athelete. Keep up your strengths, exercise them, study them too, but go into depth on your weak subjects and hire or find a tutor for those and spend no more than 4 hours a day on this, and get plenty of sleep and take pre-tests, (practice SAT tests,) every two weeks. And don't panic. Keep your diet up, no alcohol, and again plenty of rest.. You can do this if you have a plan , good tutors and a belief in yourself. OK?

Answer 4

3 months is lot of time - lot longer than what you might think - but, like someone else suggested - SAT tests certain skills that take very long time to develop - but again, who knows - you may be already good in those skills!!

First - it is important to know how good you are currently - so, take a sample test first - either in a book (Barron's or whatever) or on some website. This will tell you your strengths, and weaknesses. More over - it will also give you an idea what SAT is all about.

Secret is unleashing your full potential - I mean, if you are very good in certain areas, it is very important that you capitalize those strengths. The big problem, believe it or not, is going to be having the necessary "FOCUS."

These types of standard tests are long, and brain-numbing. Practicing many FULL-LENGTH exams, and simulating exam room conditions is going to help you with focus/concentration in the real exam.

Last, but not least - SAT score is very important - don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. It is worthwhile to give up "other things" and make time for SAT prep. Like I said, 3 months is lot of time = 90 days = 720 work hours (assuming 8h work days) = 2160 Total hours!

Good Luck!
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PS: I am not quite sure what you are trying to hint with "international-student" thing. Don't let that bother you - lot of international students do as well (or as worse) as local students in SAT.

SAT doesn't test English fluency - local students may be fluent and more comfortable speaking in English - but that is not same as having good vocabulary, grammer, and comprehension.

Local students may be preparing for SAT English with a confident and positive attitude - which eventually is helping them getting very good in English. Lot of foreign students, who work hard, also do well in English

Answer 5

The SAT asks questions in unusual ways - work on understanding the test at the most basic level. I would recommend a three book approach: Professor Dave's Owner's Manual for the SAT (teaches content, strategy, test-taking skills) Barron's Hot Words for the SAT (vocab) The College Board Official Guide to the SAT 2nd Edition (practice tests) Learn strategy. Learn process of elimination. Learn pacing. You can hit 700 from 600 pretty easily if you employ these. Best of luck with your prep.

Answer 6

I have my fisrt SAT in June 2, and I study everyday, and how? well, most of the times my time is too short for doing a deep SAT study, so I suscribed to www.collegeboard.com, which is an amazing site for any high school student, it does not matter where you're from, if you're taking the SAT collegeboard.com is the perfect place. There you can subscribe to The SAT Question of the Day, and they will send you a free SAT practice question to your email adress every single day.
I highly recommend you this, and also you can take there a Free Sample Test, that will be an amazing help too.

Good luck!!!!!

Answer 7

Get all the help you can
Scenario one: you cannot afford much
Get the right book second hand and ask help from someone who has written and done well for free or little something.
Scenario two:You have sufficient money
Get the latest book and hire an experienced home tutor.
Scenario three:You have a budget ...
Buy the latest book...Hire an online tutor from India hopefully a postgraduate it will work out cheap and some companies can give you packages at an avg of 6.25$ per hour if you buy 50 hours plus with a dedicated tutor.
You can search on the net for a deal or contact my company
www.jaagrut.com not that we can do miracles but we can get you really good tutors for a fab rate.

Answer 8

I prepared for the SAT in 2 months and I earned a score of 1510 (back when it was out of 1600). I got seven wrong in all.

How did I do it?

Simple. I took a test every day for one month under actual testing conditions. Its not that simple though. You have to go back and check any answers you got wrong and get it right.

Try different strategies. See what works for you. This is how I earned my score, and my scholarship.

Answer 9

I'm an international student and english is not my mother language.I toke the SAT the last year and I had in the maths a score of 740.so I'm excited to give u the net result to have high scores and I want to tell u that 3 months is totally enough to have high scores if u study well.
*****as I had no idea what the SAT is about I started buying any SAT book I found.I bought Barron's book which tell u about what ur going to face in the SAT and give examples of SAT questions.this book helped me to get adapted to SAT step by step.
*****I also bought the barron's book of questions which contains complete exams just like the SAT ones.
*****I bought the Official Sat book.published by college board which also contains exams of the same style as SAT exams.and the secret is(most of the vocab in those exams is repeated in the essential SAT exam u will take in may.
******try to learn new strategies in maths to learn how to not waste so much time in questions that can be resolved in an easier strategy.
*****u should answer the daily question on the www.coolegeboard.com site and it's also by 90% repeated in the exam u will take.(or at least similar to it)
*****for the vocab.many people used to learn lists of vocab by heart but I didn't.I just spend the time in answering as much vocab questions as possible.
******the main and most important thing is to learn to be quick by putting urself in same circumstances as when u take the real exam.isolate urself for 4 hours prepare ur pen and calculator and watch.and start answering the whole exam just as if u r in the real exam.

that mainly what made me have high scores.I hope this helps and connect me if u have any questions.

Answer 10

I took the SATs many years ago but I prepared by getting books by a company called Barron's. The book was page after page of the kinds of questions that were offered in SAT exams. The books also had all of the answers with explanations. It taught me how to look for trick questions and how to read carefully. It also gave me the ability to sit down for a couple of hours and just read and answer. I think it gave me a real advantage.

Answer 11

Consider hiring a tutor to help you get ready. Several companies hire professional tutors to help students improve their SAT scores. A good tutor will help you learn how the SAT works and what to expect.

If you are in California, check out http://www.ivywest.com/. If you're not, just do an Internet search on "SAT prep tutor and (your state)".

By the way, if you can't afford a private tutor, most high schools offer SAT prep classes. 3 months is plenty of time to get ready... good luck!