I received a 400 for my critical reading on the sat reasoning test, i know reading more will improve my reading skill, im currently reading one of the harry potter book, will that help raise my reading skill or do i need to get a more difficult book im in eleventh grade but also i planning to take the sat in 1 month how long do i have to read in order to improve my reading skill, i worry that it is not enough time to improve for the upcoming sat, is there any faster method to improve ur critical reading without having to read i mean i will read but is there anything additional, also my math score on the sat is merely 500, is there any way that i can improve it? i dont really on what way i can… and lastly my essay score really sucks it is only 300 is there really really any way i can improve it btw i didnt finish the essay only got to two paragraphs and then i was timed on a 25 minutes time

Composite: 26
English: 22
Mathematics: 32
Reading: 20
Science: 30
Writing: 8 out of 12

I know what to do in order to improve my math and writing. I have those under control because I’m a pro math major… I just need to not think about nothing for math. For writing I have to go fast because I only finished my introduction and my time was up.

However, I believe that I got extremely lucky with science because alot of it I guessed on and English and Reading I obviously had trouble with. I’m looking to raise every score so that I have a composite of about 30 or more so I really need to work on those two sections and I feel that I did well overall considering the fact that I studied 0% while everyone else was studying their butts off. What do you recommend I do study-wise to improve those two scores? I’m taking the SAT Reasoning Test this month so any tips for studying for that too? Because if I do better on SAT then I won’t need to retake the ACT. Help please..
and can I get something more than "get the ACT book and review it" or something like that..

Well I just got my SAT scores back when I took the test on June 7. It was my first time and I’m really dissapointed with my score: Math 660, Writing 580, and for reading: a whopping 440. That adds to a big 1680 out of 2400 (not so good). I’m going to try to really bring all those marks up especially the reading mark because I’m planning to take the test again. My question is : how do I go about improving my reading mark? Also, when is a good time to take the reasoning test again? I’m entering my junior year in high school(I’m acutally Canadian) this fall and I need to know when is the best appropiate time to take it or does it not matter?

I am willing to devote 10 hours a day for the next three months to obtain a 2300/2400 on the SAT reasoning test. That is definitely not an exaggeration. I REALLY want to get into Princeton and I think I need a strong SAT score to do so. Which methods would be most worthy of my time:

An SAT prep course
Memorizing 1000 SAT words
Reading a book a week
Taking numerous practice tests
Memorizing all geometry and algebra theorems and formulae

Any other suggestions?

They are saying that I can not use another fee wavier for the SAT Reasoning Test. I really need to take it over. I took it twice and altogether I got a 1430. I do not understand why I can not take the SAT reasoning but I can take the subject test. It really does not make any sense and I do not want to take the subject test because I want to improve my scores on the reasoning test first. Why does College Board only allow the fee wavier 2 times?

I took the SAT reasoning test in January and got a 790 in Math, 710 in Critical Reading, and 690 in Writing (Essay: 9). Wanting to break 700 in Writing and improve my reading score, I retook it in May, after reading through a few review tip books, and I actually went down in Math and Reading and stayed exactly the same in Writing, right down to the Multiple Choice and Essay scores.

I then took the ACT in June and got a 32 composite score (34 in Math, 33 in English, 32 in Reading, and 30 in Science.

How would I go about improving my SAT scores? I want to break 2200 (my highest score at this point is 2190). Can you recommend any books? I own the big blue Collegeboard one. My parents want to enroll me in a prep class (probably Princeton Review), but I feel like it wouldn’t help much, especially since I’m crunched on time (October would be my last opportunity, since I’m taking subject tests in November). Would I have a better chance at improving my ACT scores (My goal is a 34 composite score)?
I plan on applying to a few BS/MD programs (you get accepted to both college and medical school), and those are insanely competitive. Also, I live in a town where high scores are pretty much the norm, and my parents, after hearing what some of my intellectually comparable peers got, feel that my scores aren’t competitive enough (I’m Asian, haha).
I’ve taken the Biology, Chemistry, and Math 2 SAT Subject tests. I didn’t do well on Bio or Chem (low 600s, but I plan to retake Bio in November after two months of AP Bio and some self-studying), but I got a 770 on Math 2.

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Which is more difficult, taking ACT Assessment and ACT Writing Test or taking SAT Reasoning Test?

Today, Nov.20, the results for the SAT reasoning test from Nov.1 was to appear online. Now, when I did go on collegeboard it stated that people whose results were not online yet was probably due to errors in filling out info on answer sheet and that they would have their scores sent in a week or two. This didn’t happen to me. When I logged on it showed my results and I was appalled. I then went to the organizer page of my collegeboard account and it showed
my scores from my June2008 SAT and the recent Nov12008 one.

The Nov.1 test showed the exact same scores as the June2008. My critical reading, my math, my writing, my essay, my multiple choice score from the writing, and even the percentiles were exactly identical. Now it’s possible that I could’ve scored the same exact score, but I very strongly doubt that it’s not the right one and I know I did a lot better this time.
Has this ever happened to anyone or has anyone heard of it? Usually the only error is when you fill out the wrong info, but even with that collegeboard would not have shown my score and would’ve sent it late.
I even called their office and they were reluctant to help me much since they were so busy and kept telling me to just order a hand rescore for 50 bucks.

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Which is more difficult, taking ACT Assessment and ACT Writing Test or taking SAT Reasoning Test?

I’m planning to buy one of those SAT prep books to help prepare for the SAT reasoning test. Any suggestions on which one to buy? thanks for the help.