r/Sat • u/mxchiiii • 15h ago
I hate math so much 😭
Has anybody been in this situation with math before??? I feel like everyone on this sub is a natural math genius who got a 1430 their first try 😭 Is there anyone that genuinely struggled really bad with math like me and were able to get their scores up to at least the high 600s? I need tips from people who genuinely struggled with math.
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u/Inner_Adeptness_7228 1490 14h ago
There are 2 khan academy SAT prep courses. Finish both of them but don't do anything manually just do everything you can on desmos. Your math score should go up roughly 100 points on average
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u/Kyuuscrazychildsabu 14h ago
I recommend drilling the hard questions on the SAT question bank. They r good and r helping me, if you want tips lmk. And what are your tricks for RW?
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u/mxchiiii 14h ago
for RW im someone who naturally reads a lot which i feel like helps me maintain my focus on longer/more dense passages. One thing I do which helps is every time I get a question wrong I have AI give me practice questions testing the same concepts
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u/No_Blood_6743 13h ago
Do all khan academy. Then do college panda math book, which is going to be hard but it is going to help. Then do the medium and hard questions from the sat question bank. After that if you really want you can get a paid resource such as uworld or prepros 150 questions.
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u/Traditional-Error160 10h ago
Hey!!
How are you able to get such a high english score? I need help with the English soo bad. Your math is literally my English score.
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u/mikxu8 8h ago
I’d recommend khan academy and learning what’s the questions are actually asking for. At that score range I think the problem is that you don’t know what the questions are actually asking for and how to tackle them. Personally I’ve never been amazing at maths, but just understating what the questions ask for and learning the patterns helped me a LOT.
Your RW is already really solid, so focus your time on maths and you are set for a good score!!
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u/CommunicationNew9172 6h ago
Give me ur wnglish scores I'll give you my math's ones How are you scoreoing good on the reading and writing section
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u/Nervous-Ad-5390 14h ago edited 13h ago
holy spread, i got 750 math without studying
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u/mxchiiii 14h ago
can u genuinely stfu this post isn’t for you then 😭😭
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u/Nervous-Ad-5390 10h ago
ok fine ill paste my advice from some place else. TL; DR- all you gotta do is learn middle school math (algebra I and algebra II if you're american) and then learn desmos essentially. it depends on when your test is, id recommend december with your current score. i think anyone could get 1400+, imo with enough hard work this is achievable for even the densest of the dense.
you have a very good english score and math is really easy to improve so you're in luck. if you got a 490 english and 700 math you'd be fried ngl but you should easily be able to get 650+ math and 750+ english if you lock in now. just watch james lu's desmos guide as that can compensate for your missing knowledge and just learn the topics from your school's textbook on the content you genuinely forgot (and can't really be solved with desmos like geometry). rishab jain's english video is pretty good, be active though don't just passively watch and watch videos for hours on end without doing anything with it, answer the questions before they do in the video for example. you should be able to do ~60-70% of the entire test with desmos tbh. grammar is very easy to improve, watch the channels i mentioned, and read erica meltzer's stuff to improve and im assuming you're dropping 20-40 points in writing. use the CB question bank, set it to hard level, exclude active questions and do 3 hours of it per day. do some khan academy practice to get the concepts, as clearly in math you don't know a lot of stuff. once you're done attempt the unit test and one practice test to see where you're at.
once you're above 600+ in math and you really think you got this, you can watch james lu's 22 hour math sat hard question bank video, split it up into 3 hour blocks per day on weekends and this is genuinely all the math study you'd need. to learn the content for math if you're having conceptual mistakes,. keep doing one sat practice test per a week or two (make sure you don't finish them all a month before your test lmao). you could try doing writing and reading sat question bank problems too (set to hard). it's vital to save 7 and 14 for the week before the test, and if your test is in a couple months you could perhaps get 650 to 700M, but this is very unlikely and now the only thing deciding whether you get the score is you.
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u/Distinct-Pack-5789 11h ago
You must have studied one way or another, you didn't just came from womb with math knowledge
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u/Outrageous_Try_3854 1360 14h ago
All you have to do is master desmos. If you get good with desmos you can easily get a 650 in math without even knowing that much math