help regarding SAT

[harsh ridge]

Hello, I'm in my AS level currently.. writing in feb/march 2025. I'm also simultaneously preparing for the digital SAT exam. I'm planning on taking 3 attempts of this(One in December 2024, May 2025 and September 2025). I'm planning on my first attempt for December 2024. is this good because I feel like there's less time because its nearly one month before as level exams. can someone guide me please?

[pearl oak]

F/M 25 is a year away wdym 1 month, I'm confused

[harsh ridge]

no.. the time between december 2024 and january 2025 is one month

[pearl oak]

ahh tbh SAT prep isn't very time consuming. You can study for AS now and start with your SAT prep side by side some months before december. and then after that you'll just need to revise for AS and will have about a month and half to do so.

[harsh ridge]

i see, tysm @pearl oak

[prisma imp]

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[urban schooner]

why're you planning to write 3 attempts

try to finish it off in one attempt

[amber arrow]

yeah and try to give it in earlier session then december tbh all my classmates did the same they started SAT prep just after igcse and gave it in sept or oct or nov idk but dec is pretty late if you think about the AS plus AS is more imp compared to A2 for admissions so take as much time as possible for AS

also the more attempts you give the lesser they are worth

suppose you get 1400 in first attemp and 1520 in second attempt dont give the third

[crude horizon]

many people do multiple attempts to improve their score because the system kinda doesn’t punish you for it

in fact sat themselves says that it’s usual for people to do 2 attempts

[urban schooner]

that doesn't mean you HAVE to do more than one attempt

all i am saying is try to finish it off in one attempt so that you can focus on school and extracurriculars

if you were unable to get your dream score, you can rewrite but going into the exam with the idea that you are gonna rewrite it anyway isn't gonna help you

[crude horizon]

you don't have to but it can seriously help you

i'd just think about how many times you want to take it personally, if you think 3 is the right amount then well.. do 3 ig

[worldly ice]

it does.....

[crude horizon]

ok this is what college board says

id follow that

[worldly ice]

the universities know how many attempts you take

[crude horizon]

yea and they won't get mad if you retake it once

ofc you wouldn't do it 9 times

[worldly ice]

1 Attempt 1580
3 Attemps 1580

The 1 attempt will get the prefrence. However it depends if the university you are applying to is selective or not.

(I assume the rest of the profile and grades are similar here)

[crude horizon]

1 attempt 1380 vs 3 attempt 1480

usually it looks more like that so..

[urban schooner]

and 1 attempt 1480 looks better

so try to get 1500+ on your first attempt

[crude horizon]

do you think people just decide to score less on the first attempt 😭

no one wants to score less

[pallid quail]

wait our as exams are in jan??

[harsh ridge]

if your taking IT, then the practicals would be in 30th/31st jan approx.

if not then obviously its february

[pallid quail]

oh ok lmao

for some reason i thought as exams might happen a bit earlier

@harsh ridge how are you studying for dsat ?

[harsh ridge]

dsat prep going great as of now

but im mostly focusing on AS level

[pallid quail]

yeah but what ru doing

just practice tests ?

or studying material from somewhere

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[astral moss]

it doesn't matter what attempt you score the best, for 99% of top schools in the US you choose the score you want to submit and colleges won't know which attempt that is unless they ask otherwise, the only universities that do require all SAT scores to be submitted is a private such as CMU. don't sweat it and do your best, ideally twice is feasible both mentally and financially.

[radiant dagger]

i took the sat without studying and got a 1520 with a 720 in math 800 in english

it’s easy don’t stress if u took igcse math and first lang eng

[urban schooner]

gg yeah even i got a 1520 but an 800 in english is crazy 😭

[fading sigil]

@harsh ridge Honestly Dec might be a bit too close, maybe you can do it in October or Nov. I prepped for digital for about 5 months and got a good score on the first time. Better to finish it off once.

[pallid quail]

how much did u ge?

[fading sigil]

1570

[pallid quail]

oo

[jaunty mortar]

yeah set 1500+ as your target

if you got A* in igcse english, and you read a lot of books so have a good comprehension and you are doing AS maths then you should be good for SAT. However you still need to prepare cuz the style of questions are different and the content is slightly different

also my country only does the paper SAT and only in june, is that normal?

[pallid quail]

isnt it digital now how can they give paper sat

[crude horizon]

Replace AS with IGCSE maths A/A*

[jaunty mortar]

maybe it is, i'll have to check

[jaunty mortar]

LMAO is it that easy?

but 12th graders take it in america, some after they have done AP calc

[crude horizon]

Yes

There’s a few things not in igcse but there’s thing in igcse and not on ther

[urban schooner]

you should still prepare for math if you're getting 800 in the practice tests btw

the real test is usually harder

[urban schooner]

khan academy is a good resource

do all the 6 practice tests

read articles

the bluebook app

yeah even i found it hard

idk you can use the question bank

[prisma imp]

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[urban schooner]

it was yeah

much harder than i expected

[barren sky]

How hard is sat?

compared to igcse

[urban schooner]

i wrote the march 9th administration

both sections were just harder than i expected

time was a huge problem and i somehow got lucky in math

got a 790 i think the one mistake i made was i got the interior angle formula wrong 😭

should have revised igcse formulae

hard

it was generally hard from what i felt and what others told me asw

so like learn all the desmos tricks

i got a bunch of hard qns in like 30 seconds just because of desmos

features like regression saved me

yeah you are

[jaunty mortar]

why is the english section hard?

[crude horizon]

it’s just that the math part is comically easy so in comparison it seems a bit harder

[jaunty mortar]

how does the english compare to FLE?

[crude horizon]

Incomparable, they’re too different

except for the essay, I have no idea how that works

the reading section is just comprehension and grammar

[jaunty mortar]

interesting

i wish i could take the ACT cuz i like science and did well in science in igcse but it is not available in my country. only the SAT

[formal swallow]

science in ACT is not like science in IGCSE

you aren't quizzed on stuff like melting point of iron or explain why a dc motor spins

you read an excerpt from a research paper and answer questions related from that

topics range from microbiology to geology to astrophysics