This is a postscript from a student who took SAT reasoning test on October 2007.

I took SAT on October which I aimed to get at least 2000. Before taking SAT, I was extremely nervous studying because some people said that October SAT is the hardest of all SATs. I went to Elite Institute where I only studied SAT only for 2 months. This Elite school improved my writing score and a little bit of Critical Reading score. This school provides a weekly test and reports our school on following day. My score gradually improved and I was surprised about my improvements too. On the last weekly test, I was able to achieve 1930 which is a dramatic improvement because first time when I took a weekly test I got 1590. I was very surprised and I appreciated Elite school. I had to increase my score by at least 70 more points which looked easy. After, I did not have enough time to study because of massive numbers of homework and other works. This prevented me from studying SAT for a while. I was able to study SAT from just 2 weeks away from the real test day and obviously 2 weeks is not enough time to study and prepare completely. Since I did not have confidence in Critical Reading section, I decided to boost up my score in Math and Writing section both of which I did not have difficulties and troubles. However as I expected, test did not go as I wanted to. For some reason, the passages in Critical Reading are very hard and I was very embarrassed to read. I had no choice but to skip a few questions due to a lack of time. Math and Writing section were okay but still not enough to satisfy me. This ended up making me think that I have to take SAT on December again. I am preparing for December test and I am hoping that I can get above 2000 on this test.

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This is a postscript from a student who took SAT reasoning on test on May 2007.

I took the SAT in May of 2007. I was quite nervous about taking the test, seeing as I had not prepared much for the test, which was my first mistake. I tried to stay positive about the whole test though I knew I was not as prepared as I could have been. I had bought an online preparation test book, and had planned on studying it, though I never got around to using it. Before I took the test, I did have the chance to read up on some tips for the test. One of them that I remembered very well was that the test questions go in order from easiest to hardest, with the exception of the reading response questions. That was one thing that helped me to know whether or not a question was really hard or not, by the placement of it in the test. Another thing that helped me was remembering that for every question I got wrong, I got 1/4 of a point off, which means it is better to leave an unsure question blank, because blank does not give you points, nor take them away. Overall, I felt it was quite a difficult test, though I think had I prepared more for it, I would have done a lot better. I decided not to take it again, but instead take the ACT, that way I would have one score of each.

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This is a postscript from a student who took SAT reasoning test on October 2007.

I took the SAT reasoning test on October 2007. before taking the test, I heard from my school’s previous students that the October SAT reasoning test is the hardest among all the SAT reasoning tests in other months because it’s the time when almost all the seniors take their SAT reasoning test. I had three critical reading sections, three writing sections, and three mathematics sections, and I think one more critical reading section for the experimental section.

The essay was the first section and the question was easy. It asked the test taker to talk about heroes and the celebrities. But as I got into critical reading sections, the vocabularies were getting harder, and the words that I haven’t seen before appeared. The reading passages are as confusing and boring as always. In addition, it was long so that I lacked time when reading the last passage in each section. So I thought that knowing many vocabularies are critically important. I think the math sections were okay and I was able to get through almost all the questions. And writing sections, they are the easiest among the critical reading and mathematics.

I cannot clearly say that this one was harder than the one that was in May, 2007 because my score rose to more than 150 points from the one in May. But I think that I could have raised more by knowing more vocabularies and having more time to read and think to solve the problems.

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