hi joan, you can fill that time with additional magoosh practice, reviewing lesson videos, analyzing your mistakes, or coming up with a stress reduction technique to help you prepare for the exam 🙂

hi hadia,

you have a little over a month to prepare for the sat–you can certainly see significant improvement in that time, but you’ll have to study hard if you want to see an increase of over 300 points! i recommend that you check out our one month study plan , which will give you a good idea of what you have to do to prepare over the next month. it’s essential that you use high quality study materials and practice as much as possible. if you are looking for effective and affordable test prep, check out our magoosh premium program, which is on sale now 😀

the first thing i’ll tell you is that there’s definitely a limit on how much you can improve your sat reading score (or your score on any sat section) in just one week. to boost your score as much as possible, i recommend focusing on strategy. test strategy can be learned a lot faster than overall reading skill. focus on multiple choice strategies in sat reading. magoosh actually has a three part post on sat reading multiple strategies that you can check out: sat reading multiple choice strategies, part 1; sat reading multiple choice strategies, part 2; sat reading multiple choice strategies, part 3.

also work on more basic reading skills like skimming (quickly looking at a passage for the main ideas) and scanning (quickly looking through the passage for keywords related tot he questions. these skills can be built up very quickly with a few days’ practice, which can really help you improve your score.

if you focus on test strategies, skimming and scanning for the next week, i’m confident you can improve your sat reading score. exactly how much you can improve your score is a little unpredictable of course. good luck!

in all honesty, it’s very difficult to boost your score by that much in just 9 days. for the fastest possible score increase, i recommend focusing on test strategies and test skills rather than academic content. strategies and skills can be learned more quickly than specific information about math, grammar, literary devices, etc…. but again, even with a skills-strategy approach, you’re not guaranteed to get all the way up to 1300 int hat short of a time. still, it doesn’t hurt to try. good luck!

going all the way up from 1200 to 1350 in just two weeks is a tall order. doing this would be very difficult, but not necessarily impossible. sometimes students miss a lot of sat questions due to poor multiple choice strategy and not because they still need to learn more academic content. my advice is to focus on sat multiple choice strategies first and academic content second. this is the best way to boost your score as much as possible in a short time. will it get you all the way to 1350? that’s hard to say. but it’s definitely worth attempting. if you have time after the test, come back and let us know how things went!