- BLOCK OUT TIME IN YOUR SCHEDULE
Make appointments with yourself to study and take practice tests. Don’t
compromise this time; treat it as a serious commitment that you can’t break.
Find a quiet, secluded place, and don’t let yourself be disturbed—that means no
food breaks, no texting, no checking Facebook, no pat-the-cat sessions. When
you’re finished, go outside and yell for a while to release your tension. Then
reward your hard work and self-discipline by bathing in melted milk chocolate.
Put it on the same level as a date with your lifelong crush, or a 5-hour uninterrupted nap.
—Samantha
- STUDY WITH FRIENDS
Anything is more fun if you do it with friends (except maybe body piercing).
Read this book out loud. The jokes will be funnier and the tips will make more
sense.
Another advantage to studying with friends is that you can help one another
with some of the harder math concepts and argue over which sentence provides
evidence for a particular answer in a reading passage. Just make sure that you
don’t get carried away fooling around and forget to study. Also, don’t have too
good a time or the Evil Testing Serpent will hunt you down, hide under your bed,
and stab a number 2 pencil into your little toe while you sleep. The College
Board doesn’t like students to have any fun with the SAT.
Take practice tests in the morning if you can. You’re
never going to be taking the SAT at 8:00 p.m.,
unfortunately.