When to start practicing for sat
How to Get a 1500+ on the SAT
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hey guys it's me Estella and today I'm
gonna be talking about something that
everybody has wanted me to make a video
about since the dawn of my channel so
now that I'm done taking the SAT I can
finally make si si videos because I've
taken them three times so I definitely
say pretty much you know the ins and
outs of it so I'm going to be bestowing
my wisdom upon all of you probably your
junior frantically cramming for your SAT
or a freshman who's curious about what
is this big deal of an SAT so I'm gonna
be talking about the SACU today got my
book right here as you guys can see and
pretty much I'm gonna be making a series
just so you guys know with SAT and ACC
videos so I'm just gonna kind of go over
how to get a 1500 plus on the SAT today
I'm gonna go over the different sections
more in depth and like how to get
motivated to study for the SAT because
that's probably one of the biggest
things all that kind of stuff in
separate videos and also if you have
anything specific that you want me to
talk about like either in a sadqa or
just make a separate video just comment
below SAT and then whatever you want me
to talk about if that makes sense
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alright so most of you prop wash in this
probably already know why you want to
get a 1500 plus so I'm just gonna get
right into how to get a 1500 plus so
first of all prep books wise I have
three prep books but pretty much the
only one that I used and I'm gonna talk
about in this video right now is this
book it's called the College Board Blue
Book you can get it on Amazon has this
one that I have has eight SAT practice
tests
it's it's pretty thick as you can see
it's uh it's it's pretty big so yeah it
does have a practices I definitely
recommend getting this book you can get
all the practice tests for free online
but I just find it more convenient that
so that you don't have to print off
every single practice test and it's
honestly better to do it when you're
doing your practice says to do it by
hand because it's just more realistic
and you can bubble in the bubble sheet
rather than looking on a screen if that
makes sense so yeah so I definitely
recommend getting this book and once
you've gotten this beautiful wonderful
book in your hands the first thing that
you should do is to diagnostic tests so
what do I mean by diagnostic tests I
just mean you new find some time after
school or on the weekend just sit down
follow the instructions and do the
entire for our test so I know it sounds
not very exciting but you definitely
should do it because first of all if
your score pretty low you might want to
try taking an essay a CT sorry a CT
practice tests and seeing how you're
doing on the a CT and if you're doing
better overall you can compare your
scores and percentiles then you might
want to just study for the ACC and not
bother with the CT it really depends on
the person however if you are doing
pretty well or you feel like you can
significantly improve if you're studying
after studying then I definitely
recommend just for now just taking a sh
E and then if you don't see much
improvement after like a month or two
maybe start trying the ECT so why take
two diagnostic tests instead of one
diagnostic test and why take them in
condition the conditions that you will
be faced with when you enter the testing
room well if you take one diagnostic
test is usually not enough to really
kind of understand all of your
weaknesses so I personally prefer taking
two before I actually start studying for
tests
to kind of really understand where I'm
scoring up I definitely recommend taking
the official college board practice test
either from the internet or from this
book and I recommend doing probably
practice tests 5 & 6 or 6 & 7 because
those are the ones I believe are the
ones that were already released that
were given to students previously if
they were actually given to students on
test day so you know that it's already
an accurate representation of what the
test isn't going to be like I can see
that perk from personal experience that
the scores that I got on my practices
where maybe a couple of points higher
than when I actually was scoring what
they are pretty accurate overall if you
really harshly score yourself and don't
give yourself any free points
so once you've done the diagnostic tests
you need look at your mistakes and
evaluate your weaknesses maybe you're
doing amazing on the math section you're
getting a 790 or an 800 every time then
you probably shouldn't really study too
much for that maybe just review some
areas that you're really not you don't
remember well but let's say you're
getting a 650 on the reading section for
instance then definitely you would
understand that you new really spend
your time studying for the reading or
what happens if you kind of scoring in
the middle like 700 for both the reading
and the mouth then that's already when
already start looking really in depth on
what mistakes you're making and what
areas you study once you've gone over
your diagnostic test is too familiar
like I can't speak familiarize yourself
with the tests so before you start any
really intense study I recommend you
fully understand how the test is gonna
work of what's covered on the test what
sec like what specific topics are
covered in each of the sections what are
some strategies for the tests etc so i
would recommend either reading the
beginning of your blue book or if you
have a princeton review book for
instance reading the beginning of that
it's just going to talk about some
strategies what the test is like etc or
for free you can find online it's
there's this website called prep scholar
you've probably heard of it but they
also have some nice articles just about
the SAT like why you should try to aim
for a good SAT score what's on this 80
what's covered with math topics with
what reading topics grammar etc so I
definitely recommend just kind of
familiarizing yourself with the tests
before you really start
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once he's kind of realized okay I'm
really not doing well either on the math
section or the reading section of both
that's when you start going over the
content but pretty much just go over the
content areas that you've put that
you've circled after the two diagnostic
tests and you realize that you really
need to study those so once you've done
that and it shouldn't take you long
I'd say maybe maximum a week if you
study every single day to go over all of
your weak areas at that point that's
when you start really practicing and
what I mean by practicing is doing tons
and tons of practice questions all the
time pretty much every single day so
overall what I recommend is saving the
full practice tests until the end when
whatever time span you're playing about
studying and doing full official
practice tests maybe two to three times
a week like for weeks leading up to it
really depends on your time frame and
everything but leading up to the test
before then I definitely recommend doing
tons of drills the ones that are in the
Blue Book the ones that are on Khan
Academy there's a lot of crack SAT
practice tests online as well that you
can find of Princeton review tests
they're not really that accurate but
they're so good for practice and once
you've kind of done that start doing the
official practice tests
going over your mistakes is the most
important step probably out of all of
these and you should keep a special
notebook title it SAT notebook whatever
you want and pretty much just every time
you miss a question just write down the
question what your answer was what the
actual answer was and then why you
missed it and how you can avoid that
mistake in future and I know what the
house tedious but it actually really
works and it helps your brain remember
that type of question so that in the
future doesn't make that same mistake
again so I definitely recommend doing
that as you're practicing and especially
once you're already doing the official
practice sets that becomes even more
crucial all right well thank you guys so
much for watching this video I hope it
was useful and I will be doing lots of
more SATA CT ap SAT Subject Tests videos
for you guys so if you have any specific
requests just leave them in the comments
below and I will definitely try to make
them in the future
but yeah so welcome to my first official
si si video and I know I made one a
while back where wasn't really like an
official one so this is the first one in
the series but yeah so I hope you guys
enjoy this video and I will see you guys
next time
bye guys
