HOW TO SCORE HIGH ON SAT

How to score high on SAT

Meet the other guy –

Smart Sid

Smart Sid understands that SAT is a test of aptitude and he has never taken the SAT so he tries to understand what the SAT looks for and prepares according to the requirements of the SAT.

Smart Sid looks at real questions that have appeared on the SAT, works backwards and learns why a particular answer is a credited answer.

Smart Sid strikes the right balance between hard work and smart work to improve his score on the SAT.

Smart Sid does some research to find out one reliable source of guidance and checks whether the guidance is helping him by attempting real questions that have appeared on the SAT. He attempts 10 to 15 Mock SAT to fine tune his strategies and eliminate his problem areas.

The Advantages

School and college exams test your knowledge, while the SAT tests your aptitude. If you prepare for SAT, the way most other students prepare, you are destined for a score of 500, the score most students get on the SAT.

Hard work is required in school or college exams, which test you on knowledge, so you have to either understand or mug up stuff that you can spill out in the exam, but SAT is not a test of knowledge.

These time-tested methods work on knowledge-heavy tests such as school and college exams, where the more you know and write the better scores you get. For SAT, the rules of the game are different and different SAT Prep classroom programs, books and guides have different orientations and some of them may even be suspect as tools to help you. Many sources of help will confuse you. Moreover, the online forums are even more unreliable; Any Tom, Dick and Harry can sit and preach there.

Attempting Mock SAT s helps you to make all the necessary midcourse correction required to get a perfect SAT score. If you haven’t taken at least 10 to 15 Mock SATs, analyzed your performance and learnt from your mistakes, then you are not ready for the real SAT.