SAT is a test that takes a lot of preparation to do well on. While solving a lot of questions, memorizing a lot of words, and getting as many information and resources as possible will help, one of the biggest step that must be taken is making a schedule, a routine.

While preparing for the SATs, the touch, the feel, the sense for the test is crucial. Basketball players will shoot hundreds of balls a day to maintain their feel for the ball. Soccer players will take hundreds of kicks to kick the ball at the exact spot to make it fly both accurately and powerfully. SAT is in a sense, the same. You need to maintain that feel for the test up until two days before the test day. (Please, no sections the day before. They don’t help!)

How? It takes a lot of self-initiative and self-motivation to accomplish it. However, it is a decent deal for a 2300+ score, if that is what you are aiming at. (Hopefully all SI readers are!) Open up Excel or get out a piece of paper and draw a table or just somehow get a planner. Then, plan out what you will do each day. Maybe you can take a section each (reading, writing, math) per day and memorize 10 vocabulary. If you still have a bit of time, you can do one section a day. If you’re running out of time, how about a test a day?

The schedule really depends on your personal schedule–the time you’ll spend on homework, school work, with friends, etc.–but if you get a schedule written down and pasted right in front of your desk, it is more likely that it will help you than not.  It may be a bit hard to follow at first, but once you get the hang of it, your scores will most definitely improve!

NOTE: Don’t make a schedule if you are not going to even look at it after you are done making it.

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