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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just have a hearty breakfast and get a good night rest before the test. Oh, and try one practice exam to get familiarized few days before the test.[/quote]
This is truly terrible advice, as is the advice to focus on extracurriculars over test prep. If your child is always fabulous at standardized tests after lots of practice and has perfect or close to perfect grades in rigorous courses, then it's fine to do other things. But great ECs will not make up for mediocre grades or test scores, so your child should focus on those things first if he or she is on a serious college preparatory path.

You may not need to do a formal test prep program, but please do some research on trusted prep methods, which at a minimum involve doing lmany practice tests and focusing very intently on mistakes to understand what is needed to improve.

Also, I believe there is no school other than VA tech that will not accept an "old" SAT taken this year by a junior summer through January. Finally, a good test prep program can raise an SAT score much more than a few points--think from 1900 to 2200 as a reasonable good outcome. [/quote]

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