A recent post about SAT reading passages prompted the following comment from loyal Test Prep reader AP_Nerd:
How do you force yourself to be focused while taking the SAT, or just any test in general? I actually enjoy the math section, and cruise through English, but I'm never in the mood for reading. Advice?
We hear you loud and clear! On any readings-based test, especially the SAT or ACT, it can be difficult to enjoy digging into some of the most boring reading passages known to humankind. But successful test takers get past this fact by using a strategy known as active reading. Active reading won't make the passages any more fun to work on, but it will keep your on track.
lalasunshinetook the SATlast November. After a couple of months spent in recovery, she's finally pulled herself together enough to share what she learned from the experience.
Like every other high school student in the U.S., I had to undergo the torturous, arduous, strenuous, onerous, grueling four-hour ordeal known as the SAT. For some time after I took it, just thinking of the SAT would bring back a rush of the horrible memories of that November day when all my brainpower was sucked from my skull as I plowed through question after question. But now that the experience is a couple of months behind me, I can look back on that day with peace and clarity, rather than terror and agony. And so, I present to you my hard earned wisdom on how to deal with the SAT:
