{"id":1949,"date":"2014-05-01t09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-01t16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/sat\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2021-01-06t14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06t22:54:35","slug":"how-to-study-for-both-the-sat-and-your-ap-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/how-to-study-for-both-the-sat-and-your-ap-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"how to study for both the sat and your ap tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

everybody knows it, and everybody says it: junior year can be hellish. clearly, the pressure\u2019s on. if you\u2019re taking on a rigorous course load, then you may be in a pretty tight spot right now, studying for both the sat and your ap tests.<\/p>\n

and even if you\u2019re not in any ap classes, this post might still apply to you; after all, how close together are your finals and the june sat? whether it\u2019s ap tests or other exams, having the biggest test of the year in a class be so close to the sat is brutal.<\/p>\n

studying for both\u2014and yes, you\u2019ve got to <\/b>study for the sat\u2014is a balancing act, one you do for weeks (or even months). keeping from toppling over takes skill.<\/p>\n

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know your goal<\/h2>\n

the biggest problem, obviously, is time. how much of your life are you going to devote to these tests? once you\u2019re done with class, you still probably have a team, a club, a part-time job, or some other extra-curricular that\u2019s going to eat up time. maybe you have two or three. and you have to sleep, of course. what about seeing friends, reading a book, doing what you enjoy? ideally, you\u2019d have time for that too, but i\u2019ll be honest; for a few weeks, you might not. most people find that it boils down to three options\u2014grades, sleep, or fun\u2014and you can only pick two.<\/p>\n

that\u2019s a bit depressing, but don\u2019t give up on it here. there\u2019s a light at the end of the tunnel. the time leading up to these tests will go by a lot faster than you think. spending a few weeks with complete focus on academic goals (and being well-rested enough to remember what you study<\/a>) isn\u2019t going to kill you, and the reward is huge. these test scores affect your next few years, and the results can be pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

take, for example, a friend of mine: let\u2019s call her meghan. meghan did really well on all of her ap tests, and when she started college, she was given course credits for those tests. so in her junior year of college, she took a semester off\u2014she had enough credit that she didn\u2019t need to take any <\/i>classes for a whole semester, and she was still able to graduate on time. in that semester and the summer leading up to it, she moved to prague for 9 months, got a job teaching english, and basically lived it up euro-style. then, when it was time to come back, she moved back home and started up classes again. without the ap credits, none of that would\u2019ve been possible.<\/p>\n

did i mention that high sat scores and a solid gpa helped to lock down scholarship money and get her into her first choice school? there\u2019s that, too.<\/p>\n

if you\u2019ve heard this before, it\u2019s for good reason: it\u2019s worth repeating. keep your eye on the prize. put your social life, your leisure time, aside for now. you\u2019ll have a chance to come back to it later.<\/p>\n

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organize your time<\/h2>\n

devotion only gets you so far. what about the practical <\/i>advice? the most important thing you can do, the one indispensable piece of the puzzle, is creating a study schedule<\/a> for yourself. it\u2019s much, much easier to just do what\u2019s next on the list than it is to sit down and decide where to start, especially when you\u2019ve got so much on your plate.<\/p>\n

give yourself something to do every day, however small it may be. know how much time you want to spend on each subject. include breaks in the schedule, too, so you know exactly when you can step back from your book or computer.<\/p>\n

and, of course, each day in your schedule should have a couple of themes, focal points. don\u2019t expect to study for 5 different tests every day. but that\u2019s not the real danger. the common mistake is exactly the opposite…<\/p>\n

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mix your studies<\/h2>\n

organizing doesn\u2019t mean spending 3 hours studying only <\/i>chemistry on tuesday then 4 hours doing sat math on wednesday. break up your time like that and you\u2019re basically throwing some of your energy out of the window. if you want to really retain what you learn, you need to vary the topics a bit. spend 30-45 minutes on one subject, then move on to another for an hour, and a third for an hour after that. two or three subjects every day is a solid goal.<\/p>\n

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repeat the material<\/h2>\n

similar to breaking the material up and studying different subjects, repeating the same material across several days makes it much<\/i> more memorable. if you really want to learn, for example, how to write a good sat essay, one of the best ways is to read example essays a few times<\/a>, write more than one yourself, and come back to edit each one you\u2019ve written a couple of times over. each session you spend preparing for the essay might be only 30 minutes long, but in sum, they\u2019ll add up to a much greater impact than you\u2019d get by just hammering away on practice essays for hours on end on one miserable day.<\/p>\n

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quiz yourself often<\/h2>\n

repeating material isn\u2019t just limited to the time you spend in your bedroom, kitchen, school library, tree house, or wherever it is you study. spending just a minute or two mentally quizzing yourself, repeating information you\u2019ve studied, really cements it. when you\u2019re brushing your teeth, review the measurements of special triangles.<\/a> while you\u2019re in the shower, come up with as many sat words that start with \u201cc\u201d as you can (cathartic, catatonic, candor, cede, creedence<\/a>,…).<\/p>\n

every minute you spend helps; it doesn\u2019t have to be time that you scheduled for studying, specifically. keep your mind in the right place, and you\u2019ll make massive progress.<\/p>\n

and again, remember that it\u2019s not forever! the tests will pass, and life will go on. just not quite yet.<\/p>\n

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