You probably don't know and don't care but I am a high school junior.
I've recently taken the November 2, 2013 SAT because that's what juniors do and received a 610 on critical reading, a 700 on math, and 680 on writing for a grand total of 1990, a pretty average score to the least.
I plan on retaking the SAT II some time again in January 2014. But enough about that. I'm going to do a series of posts on this blog about the SAT to help all those other juniors out there gain some insight.
So here's the breakdown for you:
There are three subjects (duh):
1. Critical Reading
2. Math
3. Writing
These three subjects break down into subtopics:
1.Critical Reading
a. vocabulary fill-in-da-blank
b. short passage questions
c. long passage questions
2. Math
a. Algebra
b. geometry
c. numerical operations
3. Writing
a. THE ESSAY (dun dun dun)
b. sentence find-da-error
c. correct the sentence
d. correct the passage
And these subtopics break down into even smaller subsubtopics!:D depending on the skill they're testing.
Personally, I find math the easiest to score points on (I'm in calculus), and critical reading tends to be the one I just give up on life on or fall asleep during.
Each test has about 10 sections
(1) Essay
(3) Math sections
(3) Critical Reading sections
(2) Grammar sections
and (1) survey FAKE section where they get statistics for the SAT on. You never know which section is the FAKE section so you end up doing it for nothing and it's not even going to be scored -___-
2400 is the perfect, golden score
that means,
800 on CR
800 on Math
and
800 on Writing
To get an 800 on the CR, you have to get all the questions correct.
To get an 800 on the Math, you can miss 1 question
To get an 800 on the Writing, can you either
a. get 12 (full score) on the essay + miss 1-2 on the multiple choice
or
b. get 10-11 on the essay + perfect score on the multiple choice
Isn't that nice? You get to choose!
Sarcasm aside, I intend to post tips, tricks, formats, and helpful info on the SAT.
I hope they help!
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