Wow! That’s amazing! Congratulations! I’m so glad I could help. If there were any particular videos, tips, or strategies that you thought made the biggest difference, share it in the comments!
Hey Mike, Thank you so much for your videos. Helped me a ton I scored a 1510 (790M / 720 RW) on the August Test which really went beyond my expectations. Was scoring mid 1400’s and had never scored >700 on reading so huge surprise. Thanks for all your help!! Finally done with this annoying test and time to apply to colleges 😅
Hey ,I just want to say that your videos really help me to achieve a 1460 on the August SAT 🎉🎉 So I just want to say thank you for making these videos❤.I will recommend your channel to any of my friends who want to take the SAT.😊
Hey Mike! I don't know if you still remember me; I asked you many questions😅I took the August SAT! And I checked my score yesterday...I didn't expect it at all--> I got a 1490 with 710 in English and 780 in Math!!! I hope I could try a little bit harder in math so i can break the 1500. My goal was 800 math since I am pretty good at math. However, I always got some minor mistakes or might be just mission some concepts. So I keep getting 770 780 or 790 in Math even for practice exams. And I found I was really stressful on the real test; The time for math went by a lot quicker than I expected. Thus, I didn't get to check my second module. But thank you for all your videos; I cannot get this score without your videos, and patience for responding my comments! I will keep working on it and take the October SAT to break the 1500. My next goal is 1530 and get to my dream colleges since it is my senior year!!
In addition, I only did all the Uworld questions, all practice exams several times, r.test's tests(I don't recommend that), and some question band questions without reviewing tho... And just so you know, I was getting 1290 on the SAT before this one.
Of course I remember, and I’m so glad I could help you do so well. A 1490 is an amazing score! Congratulations! I totally understand the urge to take it again to beat 1500, and this time around you should be less nervous. You can go into the test knowing you literally cannot do worse because the 1490 is already on the books. You’re also getting to the point where luck might be the deciding factor - which vocab words you get, having familiar math topics instead of random ones, etc. Maybe study more vocabulary words and review some of the twisted questions (which I’ll make more of), but I’d say just keep doing what you’re doing. There’s a good chance you hit that 1530. Congrats again! I’m very happy I could help you!
@@SetteleTutoring OK! I will keep working hard! Thank you!! I'm an international student, English is very challenging for me. Just hoping the best luck on the test and study as hard as I can.
thanks for this video. Can tutors take the real SAT? it would be good for them to see what it's really like, if it's actually harder than the practice tests or else student feelings about it...Also do you think there are more unpredictable questions on the real test on the Reading/Writing section that haven't been seen before on the bluebook tests? or is it more the math that seems unpredictable and new stuff that isn't seen before...
It’s unclear if tutors can take the SAT. You’re not supposed to take it unless you plan to use it to apply to colleges, but it might not be strictly enforced. I have not taken a chance on the new SAT, mostly because I live in California where there are never any open spots. As for the unpredictability, I disagree with the premise of the question: there is NOT new stuff on the test! The SAT is consistent in the topics that it tests. Any “new stuff” is simply the old stuff repackaged in new ways. There are infinite ways to ask these kinds of questions, so every SAT - in both sections - will have questions that are unpredictable in the literal sense that we can’t memorize the steps to solve them beforehand, even if we took 100 practice tests. I’ve been taking SATs for 15 years, and I still see questions that surprise me, but the formulas, rules, and strategies I use to solve are the same ones I used when I took my own high school SAT in 2005.
Thanks for sharing my channel! 1400 is a hard score to get. It really depends where you’re starting from and what you’re struggling with. In general, 100 points of improvement can come with some basic studying and implementing the new strategies. 200 points takes more time and effort. Beyond that, it gets very very hard, but I’ve seen people improve by 300 or more points with lots of practice.
Do you have any advice? I scored consistently 1560~1580 ( which was the score I got on practice six) on all of the practice tests. When I watch your videos, they all make sense! I implemented that on my exam but the level of difficulty were so much harder than the questions on bluebook and int he sat question bank. The math section even included a cause and effect relationship type question which I had never seen before... I ended up getting a 1470 on the August exam and im quite upset. Any advice or resources to get harder questions?
It’s definitely about being flexible for those hard questions. If we try to memorize the “steps” to solve hard questions, we’ll always be surprised on the real exam because there is endless variety for what the hard, twisted questions can look like. Rarely do we see a topic that is truly new, so I’m curious what you mean by a “cause and effect relationship” question. Have you watched my Walkthrough videos for those last practice tests? You might learn something by watching me see those hard math questions for the first time. You want to have a toolbox full of strategies you can try as quickly as possible without needing to figure out the entire plan. Here’s the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLlvPF6rDVN_uTpvNogg-p980EeVGYtw6T.html
hey, my practice test scores were around 1440-1450, I got 1410 on real test, but it really was much harder, 2 modules of both sections had many more time consuming questions then there should have been(
I know that it’s technically lower, but 30 or 40 points is within the normal range of fluctuation. I probably should have been more specific about that in the video. What made the questions more time consuming? Did the normal strategies that shorten the time not work as well?
that's very similar to my situation! i got 1560 on test 5 and 1540 on test 6, yet only 1420 in the actual exam. i feel like some of the math module 2 questions were genuinely problems i haven't seen before
Yeah that kind of drop is a little more than I’d expect from normal score fluctuation. Did any of the Knowledge and Skills scores show a clear weakness? Did anything happen to you on the real test that was different from the practice tests, like getting held up on a question and/or running out of time?
@@ssa.alastair That’s a very big drop. A few extra hard math problems wouldn’t account for all of that. Were you very nervous? Did you second guess yourself? Maybe had you accidentally spoiled some of those practice tests before you took them? One thing to note is that you will ALWAYS have hard math questions that you’ve never seen before. The key is to practice being flexible and using strategies to deal with the weirdness of those hard questions. If you’re trying to memorize the “steps” for every type of questions, you will always feel lost and surprised on the real SAT. The hardest questions will never follow a specific formula. We need to be able to adapt to whatever they give us. And even if the question itself is new, the underlying topics will be the same stuff that we see on the easy questions, just repackaged and combined so that they aren’t as recognizable.
I got 1570 on tests 4,5, and 6, but ended up getting a 1410.. (710 English, 700 math) any advice?? I’m planning to retake it, but I hate how I can’t know what exact question types I got wrong, even with the skills performance.
hey bro .. its the same thing for me also. My advice is to solve more new questions not just doing practice tests: my suggestion do khan academy course challenge or youtube video questions
Unfortunately, you can’t. The SAT will not release the test questions, so the best we can do is guess based on those Knowledge and Skills categories, but even those can be misleading. For example, just because a KS category is full, doesn’t mean you got all of those questions right on the real test. The best you can do is go back to those old tests and look again at what you struggled with. Notice that I did not say “what you got wrong”. This is why I’m always talking about saving the Bookmarks for practice tests. When you’re scoring as high as you are, there will only be a few wrong answers, but there might be many more “almost wrong” answers that you should be reviewing. The bookmarks are how we judge our own confidence in our answers and the level of proof we have before we know for sure if we’re right. Did you save your bookmarks when you took those practice tests? ua-cam.com/video/atH5msm9B4I/v-deo.html
@@TARUNV-bo5nu Yeah this is good advice. It’s important to practice, not by memorizing the steps for the hard ones, but by learning how to use strategies and cleverness to start solving quickly. It’s rare that we will see identical hard questions on the real exam.
That’s definitely a disappointing drop, but it’s on the edge of what might be considered typical score fluctuation, especially if the 50 points was split pretty evenly between the two sections. Just one or two more wrong answers in each section could explain that, which could even come down to some unlucky vocabulary words. If you took another test, it might automatically go back up to a 1300.
I don’t think cone because it’s too weird. I haven’t seen a cylinder question yet, but I’d say it’s fair game, since a cylinder is just two circles and a rectangle. Those are basic shapes that we could calculate on our own without a formula.
@@Spo_ng My understanding is that the English sections are more consistent overall. I’d be curious what people who took the test would say to that question.
Hey Mike, unfortunately I did worse than I wanted. I wanted a 1450 and got a 1390. I improved 70 points from last time but I didn’t get the score I wanted. 700 RW and 690 Math. What do I do to get a better math I’m starting to want to give up on the SAT and just full send the essay
If you want to stop testing, that’s fine. But you should be sending a 1390 to pretty much every school you apply to. The top ones require SAT scores at this point, but any place where the test is optional is still going to want to see a 1390. If you don’t send it, they’ll assume it’s much worse. A 1390 is 93rd percentile!
@@SetteleTutoring Thank you so much for this. I was very disheartened after seeing my score since I was expecting a 1580 and 1560 if things so sour. Your message is comforting. I do plan on using this score for RiceU ED1, and I plan on retaking in nov/dec since I was very much sleep deprived and had to travel long distance the day before as the test venue was quite far. Manifesting a 1580+ for the next test and hopefully using it for the RDs. Tysm for all the video u have made; especially that 10 video series, specifically the trap questions one.
That’s still a great score! I know 1550 would have felt much better, but sounds like nervousness was a factor. Anything else I said in this video connect with you?
Thank you so much for these videos, I just got a 1500 after getting a 1370 on a practice test a few days before my last test by watching your videos
congratulations
what practice test did u take
was the actual test easier for u?
OMG! this is so like me!!!! I was getting the same score on practice exams. Congrats for breaking the 1500!!!! College Board is really a magic :)
Wow! That’s amazing! Congratulations! I’m so glad I could help. If there were any particular videos, tips, or strategies that you thought made the biggest difference, share it in the comments!
Hey Mike, Thank you so much for your videos. Helped me a ton I scored a 1510 (790M / 720 RW) on the August Test which really went beyond my expectations. Was scoring mid 1400’s and had never scored >700 on reading so huge surprise. Thanks for all your help!! Finally done with this annoying test and time to apply to colleges 😅
That’s awesome! Congratulations! I’m so glad I could help you get scores like that. Good luck with the rest of your applications!
YOOOO SAME THING FOR ME! i had a 1350 on my last SAT attempt and then studied for 3 days and ended up getting 1510 (790 Math / 720 Reading)
Hey ,I just want to say that your videos really help me to achieve a 1460 on the August SAT 🎉🎉
So I just want to say thank you for making these videos❤.I will recommend your channel to any of my friends who want to take the SAT.😊
Thank you so much! I’m so glad I could help you. A 1460 is an amazing score. Congratulations!
ey bro like was it that easy for you compared to the practice tests?
@@Katoto112 nah bro it was a bit challenging .But in general if you follow the guide on the videos,you'll be fine
Thank you for your videos! Without you, I wouldn’t have been able to get a 1530. 660 (march) to 740 English :)
That’s a great score! Congratulations! I’m so glad I could help you get there. Thanks for watching!
Hey Mike! I don't know if you still remember me; I asked you many questions😅I took the August SAT! And I checked my score yesterday...I didn't expect it at all--> I got a 1490 with 710 in English and 780 in Math!!! I hope I could try a little bit harder in math so i can break the 1500. My goal was 800 math since I am pretty good at math. However, I always got some minor mistakes or might be just mission some concepts. So I keep getting 770 780 or 790 in Math even for practice exams. And I found I was really stressful on the real test; The time for math went by a lot quicker than I expected. Thus, I didn't get to check my second module. But thank you for all your videos; I cannot get this score without your videos, and patience for responding my comments! I will keep working on it and take the October SAT to break the 1500. My next goal is 1530 and get to my dream colleges since it is my senior year!!
In addition, I only did all the Uworld questions, all practice exams several times, r.test's tests(I don't recommend that), and some question band questions without reviewing tho... And just so you know, I was getting 1290 on the SAT before this one.
I didn't have a tutor, and YOUR VIDEOS ARE MY TUTORING COURSES :) OK I'm gonna stop talking! Sorry I sent too much cause I was too excited
Of course I remember, and I’m so glad I could help you do so well. A 1490 is an amazing score! Congratulations! I totally understand the urge to take it again to beat 1500, and this time around you should be less nervous. You can go into the test knowing you literally cannot do worse because the 1490 is already on the books. You’re also getting to the point where luck might be the deciding factor - which vocab words you get, having familiar math topics instead of random ones, etc. Maybe study more vocabulary words and review some of the twisted questions (which I’ll make more of), but I’d say just keep doing what you’re doing. There’s a good chance you hit that 1530. Congrats again! I’m very happy I could help you!
@@SetteleTutoring OK! I will keep working hard! Thank you!! I'm an international student, English is very challenging for me. Just hoping the best luck on the test and study as hard as I can.
@@SetteleTutoring what are twisted questions?
I do not know what happened but I got 1490. Not the score that i was expecting but still my pr so far
Thank you Mike
That’s a great score! Congratulations! To set a PR on a real test is a great achievement.
Can u please make a video about reading data questions??
I’ve made several!
ua-cam.com/play/PLlvPF6rDVN_tXlvzMzLrPGE4aoXbMtXzq.html
@@SetteleTutoring Thank you !!
thanks for this video. Can tutors take the real SAT? it would be good for them to see what it's really like, if it's actually harder than the practice tests or else student feelings about it...Also do you think there are more unpredictable questions on the real test on the Reading/Writing section that haven't been seen before on the bluebook tests? or is it more the math that seems unpredictable and new stuff that isn't seen before...
It’s unclear if tutors can take the SAT. You’re not supposed to take it unless you plan to use it to apply to colleges, but it might not be strictly enforced. I have not taken a chance on the new SAT, mostly because I live in California where there are never any open spots. As for the unpredictability, I disagree with the premise of the question: there is NOT new stuff on the test! The SAT is consistent in the topics that it tests. Any “new stuff” is simply the old stuff repackaged in new ways. There are infinite ways to ask these kinds of questions, so every SAT - in both sections - will have questions that are unpredictable in the literal sense that we can’t memorize the steps to solve them beforehand, even if we took 100 practice tests. I’ve been taking SATs for 15 years, and I still see questions that surprise me, but the formulas, rules, and strategies I use to solve are the same ones I used when I took my own high school SAT in 2005.
I share your videos to my friends..you are really lifesaver..btw, can we score 1400 in 40 days regular practice
Thanks for sharing my channel! 1400 is a hard score to get. It really depends where you’re starting from and what you’re struggling with. In general, 100 points of improvement can come with some basic studying and implementing the new strategies. 200 points takes more time and effort. Beyond that, it gets very very hard, but I’ve seen people improve by 300 or more points with lots of practice.
Do you have any advice? I scored consistently 1560~1580 ( which was the score I got on practice six) on all of the practice tests. When I watch your videos, they all make sense! I implemented that on my exam but the level of difficulty were so much harder than the questions on bluebook and int he sat question bank. The math section even included a cause and effect relationship type question which I had never seen before... I ended up getting a 1470 on the August exam and im quite upset. Any advice or resources to get harder questions?
It’s definitely about being flexible for those hard questions. If we try to memorize the “steps” to solve hard questions, we’ll always be surprised on the real exam because there is endless variety for what the hard, twisted questions can look like. Rarely do we see a topic that is truly new, so I’m curious what you mean by a “cause and effect relationship” question. Have you watched my Walkthrough videos for those last practice tests? You might learn something by watching me see those hard math questions for the first time. You want to have a toolbox full of strategies you can try as quickly as possible without needing to figure out the entire plan. Here’s the playlist:
ua-cam.com/play/PLlvPF6rDVN_uTpvNogg-p980EeVGYtw6T.html
hey, my practice test scores were around 1440-1450, I got 1410 on real test, but it really was much harder, 2 modules of both sections had many more time consuming questions then there should have been(
I know that it’s technically lower, but 30 or 40 points is within the normal range of fluctuation. I probably should have been more specific about that in the video. What made the questions more time consuming? Did the normal strategies that shorten the time not work as well?
I also scored in that range for my practice tests 1 through 4 (since I already took 5&6 for my May prep) but I got a 1400 on the real test.
I got 1490 on practice test 5 and 1500 on test 6. When I took the August SAT just a few days later I got 1410, it’s pretty upsetting
that's very similar to my situation! i got 1560 on test 5 and 1540 on test 6, yet only 1420 in the actual exam. i feel like some of the math module 2 questions were genuinely problems i haven't seen before
Yeah that kind of drop is a little more than I’d expect from normal score fluctuation. Did any of the Knowledge and Skills scores show a clear weakness? Did anything happen to you on the real test that was different from the practice tests, like getting held up on a question and/or running out of time?
@@ssa.alastair That’s a very big drop. A few extra hard math problems wouldn’t account for all of that. Were you very nervous? Did you second guess yourself? Maybe had you accidentally spoiled some of those practice tests before you took them? One thing to note is that you will ALWAYS have hard math questions that you’ve never seen before. The key is to practice being flexible and using strategies to deal with the weirdness of those hard questions. If you’re trying to memorize the “steps” for every type of questions, you will always feel lost and surprised on the real SAT. The hardest questions will never follow a specific formula. We need to be able to adapt to whatever they give us. And even if the question itself is new, the underlying topics will be the same stuff that we see on the easy questions, just repackaged and combined so that they aren’t as recognizable.
I got 1570 on tests 4,5, and 6, but ended up getting a 1410.. (710 English, 700 math) any advice?? I’m planning to retake it, but I hate how I can’t know what exact question types I got wrong, even with the skills performance.
hey bro .. its the same thing for me also. My advice is to solve more new questions not just doing practice tests:
my suggestion do khan academy course challenge or youtube video questions
Unfortunately, you can’t. The SAT will not release the test questions, so the best we can do is guess based on those Knowledge and Skills categories, but even those can be misleading. For example, just because a KS category is full, doesn’t mean you got all of those questions right on the real test. The best you can do is go back to those old tests and look again at what you struggled with. Notice that I did not say “what you got wrong”. This is why I’m always talking about saving the Bookmarks for practice tests. When you’re scoring as high as you are, there will only be a few wrong answers, but there might be many more “almost wrong” answers that you should be reviewing. The bookmarks are how we judge our own confidence in our answers and the level of proof we have before we know for sure if we’re right. Did you save your bookmarks when you took those practice tests?
ua-cam.com/video/atH5msm9B4I/v-deo.html
@@TARUNV-bo5nu Yeah this is good advice. It’s important to practice, not by memorizing the steps for the hard ones, but by learning how to use strategies and cleverness to start solving quickly. It’s rare that we will see identical hard questions on the real exam.
i used to get 1300 in practice tests , but in exam i got a 1250.
That’s definitely a disappointing drop, but it’s on the edge of what might be considered typical score fluctuation, especially if the 50 points was split pretty evenly between the two sections. Just one or two more wrong answers in each section could explain that, which could even come down to some unlucky vocabulary words. If you took another test, it might automatically go back up to a 1300.
Does the new sat test surface area of a cone and cylinder?
I don’t think cone because it’s too weird. I haven’t seen a cylinder question yet, but I’d say it’s fair game, since a cylinder is just two circles and a rectangle. Those are basic shapes that we could calculate on our own without a formula.
@@SetteleTutoring Thank you for the explanation
do you know which test number for the psatnmsqt have the same difficulty as the real test?
I recently took PSAT/NMSQT #2 and I was surprised at how hard the Math was. I have a feeling that the real test will be more like that one.
@@SetteleTutoring what about the english section? which psat practice test has the similar difficulty for english as real exam?
@@Spo_ng My understanding is that the English sections are more consistent overall. I’d be curious what people who took the test would say to that question.
@@SetteleTutoring ok
Hey Mike, unfortunately I did worse than I wanted. I wanted a 1450 and got a 1390. I improved 70 points from last time but I didn’t get the score I wanted. 700 RW and 690 Math. What do I do to get a better math I’m starting to want to give up on the SAT and just full send the essay
If you want to stop testing, that’s fine. But you should be sending a 1390 to pretty much every school you apply to. The top ones require SAT scores at this point, but any place where the test is optional is still going to want to see a 1390. If you don’t send it, they’ll assume it’s much worse. A 1390 is 93rd percentile!
my aug score comes out in a bit
just wanna thank you for all u did
edit: came out 1530 :(
Assalamu Aleykum, brother. What score did you get?
youre sad?!? thats a great score, congrats!
@@dilshoddilmurodov9551 1530, i added it as edit
That’s an excellent score! You should be submitting that to every college you apply to.
@@SetteleTutoring Thank you so much for this. I was very disheartened after seeing my score since I was expecting a 1580 and 1560 if things so sour. Your message is comforting.
I do plan on using this score for RiceU ED1, and I plan on retaking in nov/dec since I was very much sleep deprived and had to travel long distance the day before as the test venue was quite far. Manifesting a 1580+ for the next test and hopefully using it for the RDs.
Tysm for all the video u have made; especially that 10 video series, specifically the trap questions one.
Got a 1550 on pt 6, but 1480 on real test😭
Was it that much harder😢
@@MdnZunors it was harder. But I also think I was really nervous and didn’t get much sleep the night before
That’s still a great score! I know 1550 would have felt much better, but sounds like nervousness was a factor. Anything else I said in this video connect with you?