How come taking lots of SAT practice tests increase your score?

Question

How come taking lots of SAT practice tests increase your score?

Answer 1

I don't know if it would be guaranteed to increase your score, but it will definitely familiarize you with the types of questions to expect.  Don't forget that the SATs are not so much a question of how smart you are, or how much you know, but how well you can take this one test.  Learn about the types of questions to expect, and try and develop strategies to solve them.  If anything it'll just give you an idea of the time constraints and how much you can accomplish.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Because they familiarize you with the types of question you are likely to get in exams and they make you think so you are revisin the subjects in the test as well.

Answer 4

it helps you familiarize yourself with the layout of the exam and you can learn how to better spread out your time between questions.  however, it won't increase your score that much unless you do additional study in conjunction with practice tests.  vocabulary exercises and reading comprehension practice are especially helpful.

Answer 5

You learn HOW to take the test and it helps increase your knowledge bank. But by taking a lot of the practice tests the main advantage is that you will learn techniques on how the SAT test needs to be taken.

Answer 6

How come doing CPR on a dummy helps you learn to save lives?  

Its all about repetition. You need to get used to the actual feeling of having a timer on you while you try to comprehend a long boring story about Juan and Jorge's trip to Istanbul or calculate the approximate area of a multidimensional shape.

Answer 7

The more you study and get to know whats on the test the more you are ready for it so in the long run you get a better score.

Answer 8

it could get you used to the formatting and help you grasp the concept of the structure and questions but it could also make you clinically insane.

Answer 9

because its all review and it has some of the actual test in it

Answer 10

its a very particular test- the types of questions it asks, the types of answers available, your comfort and familiarity with it.  it's kinda like most things- the more you do it, the better you get at it.

Answer 11

because taking tests that are similar to the real SAT can make your mind think in the way that is meant for the test.

it molds your mind into thinking a way that is easy for you to understand and assess the questions.

Answer 12

It helps you get used to the style of question asked on this standardized test. The content of the questions might change, but the format and style are very similar from test to test - there is a skill to taking the SAT apart from the content.

Answer 13

because SAT practices are like the actual test.. once u get those practice tests down.. you'll be fine in the actual thing

Answer 14

Because the stuff they quiz on isn't conventional or entirely practical, and there are a lot of trick and confusing questions.

Answer 15

The SAT is unlike any other test most of us normally take in school.  The questions aren't asked in the same way, the test is scored differently, and the time constraints are fairly extreme.

By taking practice tests under timed conditions, you are increasing your comfort level with the questions themselves and getting used to the flow of the test.  Additionally, the directions to each question type can be rather lengthy...the first time you take the test, you have to read the directions and that can waste several minutes over the course of the test.

Most importantly, the test writers are intentionally repetitive.  In order to make the scores on each SAT comparable, they use the same questions multiple times in different tests.  If it's math, they may ask the same exact question with a different set-up and numbers (a train traveling 50 mph becomes a car traveling 30mph).  In reading, they test the same vocabulary words over and over.  In writing, it's the same few grammar errors tested constantly.

So, by taking multiple practice tests, you are seeing similar questions and are better at them the second time around.

Answer 16

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Answer 17

i believe its because you get used to the question and start to understand how to answer them, and when you know when you can guess and when not too, and you get used to the way they ask them