SAT 101 Chapter 7 - Practice Test Links
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Practice Test Links
- Khan Academy Online Tests
- Khan is the best place to take online tests, since they are official tests and have good breakdowns.
- College Board Official Practice Tests
- Scroll down and you can find some official practice tests from the College Board themselves.
- Officially Released Past SAT Tests
- This subreddit has a nice list of links to officially released SAT tests from the past, called QAS tests.
- Sometimes the link or thread gets taken down, but just go to reddit.com/r/sat/ and you should find another.
Once you get your first practice test results
Go to the previous page and follow the tips there to make sure you learn as much as possible from the test you just took. This is more important than taking more practice tests. Going over one practice test in extreme detail is probably worth more than just taking another 3 practice tests combined. Seriously! Learn from your experiences, and you will become an SAT god.
Figure 1.6
So where do you begin?
Next, you want to choose what to study on moving forward. A common mistake people make is just purely focusing on their weakest areas in which they got the worst scores. While you definitely want to focus on those at some point, if you are short on time and looking for the biggest increase in the smallest timeframe, it's often even more effective to study your strong section more. This is because it's usually easy for us to learn concepts in subjects we are strong in, and because of the way the SAT curve works.
Spend time on your best section
As you get closer to a perfect score, every extra question you get is worth more and more. For example, the difference between a 770 and 800 might be a single question, whereas the difference between a 500 and 520 might be 3 questions. It's just how the curving system and percentiles work.
So make sure you work on your best section, too! When you are already good at something, it's a lot easier to analyze your thought process, figure out what mistakes you're making, and implement fixes to those. If you're just a downright shitty reader (no shame in that, some of you were raised on a diet of iPads and TikTok) then it's probably going to be a long and difficult process getting huge increases in your reading score.
On the other hand, if you're already pretty good at math and getting a 700, it's going to be pretty easy for you to make some optimizations and learn some shortcuts that will get you to an easy 760.
Okay, but I'm indecisive AF and incapable of making my own decisions
Alright you useless piece of crap, I'll decide for you then. Start with reading. If you don't know where to start, I'd always recommend going with the reading section, just because it's the section that reveals the most about the SAT's question style and underlying patterns. In the reading section, you get to see all the common traps and tricks the test writers put into questions and answer choices more clearly than in Math and Writing.
The same concepts are used in Math and Writing, but they are a little harder to pick out because they are more like traditional tests. It's much more obvious why, for example, one punctuation mark works but another doesn't, or why one number is the right answer. You don't really need to think much about the test structure. On the reading section, however, you can get into the SAT's head and learn all of it's tricks, and then use those tricks against the other two sections.