Common SAT Mistakes to Avoid

While preparing for SAT, students more often try to get start so that they can impress the examiners. Here, there are number of mistakes which students usually perform but how to avoid them these are all by the experts. Scores are surely an important factor in determining the state that whether a student will be able to take admission in a certain college or university. Here are some common SAT mistakes which should be avoided.

 Pressure and Nervousness: SAT is four hour test and this is the reason while most of the students failed. Their nervousness leads them in a pool where their blank mind gives them nothing but a bad score. So before test they should be mentally prepared like stress reducing techniques can sometimes be helpful. Some students have a good control over their stress and anxiety.

False Reaction: What most of the students do is to answer the question which was not asked by the examiner? This error is most common. SAT is more likely to question what a normal human can predict and most of the times the answer is present in the question or choices. This mistake can be avoided by reading the questions twice right before starting the work. And again read it before merging in the answer.

Mental Lock! Now, when questions come in front of the, their mind gets locked. They don’t know from where they should start and from where they should start thinking. So they waste their precious time in staring the question. Now the question is how to avoid this mistake? When students mostly see the question, immediately for sure any image any equation do strike the mind. Then they should look at the question. Most of the SAT question are more related to the solving stuff, which are not solved without writing anything.

Wrong answering of questions! The next most common error that most of the students do is to sometimes add the questions which require subtraction not addition and also multiplication instead of division. Now how to avoid these mistakes?

Students should write all the formulas they know at the first age because they completely not rely on their own memory because mind sometimes gets misleading so they should paste each and every formula they know. Mostly Pythagoras theorem is used in SAT Math’s questions. They should go for a+b/2 which is another favorite one of SAT. For this students really need to practice Math questions daily without relying on their memory.

Poor Homework for Essay: SAT tests that how a student writes? Students don’t know how to compose an essay. What to do and how to prove the point. This is the major fault of the students and may the major reason behind their institution; the main focus may be was not on essay writing. In order to avoid this mistake, they should start collecting the knowledge which they already have regarding the topic. And then start following the pattern of:

• Introduction
• Main body
• Conclusion

Reading is a base, don’t overlook it! SAT is all about reading. Infect the reading is the very basics of the SAT test. Mostly students just skim the reading when they read articles, newspapers, notes and books in order to grasp the main idea but this is not the case in SAT. They should practice the reading materials for SAT test. Even in the test, Math section more related to the reading. So it’s not a matter of taking it a low matter.

Concluding the whole, the most common errors can help the students in preparing for the SA test if they have never gone through SAT. The students who have experienced the SAT, they can sue their previous common errors in order to improve the difficulties they encountered.