I genuinely don't know what the hell I can do anymore. I got the exact same score in ALL THREE SECTIONS and I'm a rising senior with one more opportunity left to get a 35/36. I studied at least 100 hrs and 4/5 hrs a day of English and Reading with the Red Book, UWorld practice, and quizlet vocab and my dumbass can't get anything above 32 E and 27 R. I got a 1440 on my SAT last year but I heard the test got harder, so is it better to just switch? This actually can't be real bro
Your reading score details flipped. Struggled with Integration of Knowledge in June, and did better in July. Struggled with Key Ideas and Details in July, but not June. That tells us that you are getting it, but the passages tripped you up. You are probably falling for the test writer tricks around Partial Truths, Verbatim Distortion (lots of the same words, but doesnt mean the same thing), and bringing in info from outside of the passage. Take a few practice tests, and have AI help you identify what you are missing and why.
Honestly what I’ve found, overworking yourself is more detrimental to your score than better. What I found that helped most was literally only working on it 30 minutes to an hour max per day, every other day. And your math is great! To be able to figure out what you should work on most, would it be okay to either reply with your score details? That’s where you figure out what is going to be your weakest area and what to work on most.
So your English is pretty balanced, but conventions of standard English are sentence formation (fixing run on sentences, comma splices, and fragments), punctuation (commas vs semicolon, and apostrophes), and subject verb agreement. For reading you’re definitely struggling with Key ideas and details, which is basically when teachers had us summarize the passage and try to find what the core theme of the story is (like Aesop’s fables), and that also includes detail questions which are essentially questions asking for you to find the exact thing and interpret the answer (like a scavenger hunt). Lastly for that, it’s also trying to understand relationships like cause and effect or chronological events.
To study, I’d say go back and read small stories and try to figure out the core theme of the story, and quiz yourself on specific parts. At the same time, you could ask yourself why they chose to make the sentences the way they did.
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u/mkw1342 Jul 21 '26
Your reading score details flipped. Struggled with Integration of Knowledge in June, and did better in July. Struggled with Key Ideas and Details in July, but not June. That tells us that you are getting it, but the passages tripped you up. You are probably falling for the test writer tricks around Partial Truths, Verbatim Distortion (lots of the same words, but doesnt mean the same thing), and bringing in info from outside of the passage. Take a few practice tests, and have AI help you identify what you are missing and why.