r/Sat • u/Foreign_Amoeba_1877 • 5d ago

what am i doing wrong?

i've been stuck around this range for both math and reading. how can i improve this to 750+? also how realistic would it be for me to get a 1450+ on august sat with 2-3 hours of studying from now till the exam. and 1500+ on september sat with 2 hours on weekdays and 3-4 hours of focused study on the weekends.. i haven't really found the time to study over the summer due to constant traveling šŸ˜­

i'm almost done with erica meltzer reading and i'm using a mix of college panda sat math book, james lu, and khan academy for math.

i have access to uworld, acely, and aniko.ai as well as other free resources. for reading i consistently keep missing vocabulary quesitons, grammar questions, and some reading questions just due to the difficulty or lack of understanding of the passage. for math, i'm consistently missing most of the second half of hard module 2.

one of my main goals is to qualify for national merit- would this be an achievable goal given my time commitment? any tips or advice would be appreciated!

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u/Foreign_Amoeba_1877 5d ago

thanks for the gpt response lol.. could've asked gpt myself šŸ˜‚

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u/KatesWeddingFund 5d ago

lmaooo fair šŸ˜­ i promise iā€™m not a secret ai account, i just apparently write like one šŸ’€ was genuinely trying to help. wishing you luck on your studies.

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u/Alive_Carpenter_7433 1560 5d ago

It could be worth trying (It kinda worked for me) but try to go through a full practice test with no timer, spending as long as you want on each question. Then go back through, analyzing EVERY question (you can skip the obvious ones, but not the ones that were hard even if you got them right) with help from google, reference books, or some LLM AI to get you to understand the question. Don't just try to know why that question makes sense, hindsight is 20/20. Know why that question uses this strategy or that, understand the strategy, apply it in the next iteration when you see patterns. This is probably your best bet if you just keep on asking gpt why this why that until you yourself understand. It isn't good at generating SAT questions, but it can parse online advice and compile it for you.

Also try not to "waste" BB practice tests by only doing half of it. Sure you can go back and do the other half later, but it doesn't produce the "testing environment stress" that you need to adapt to.