If you don’t study for the SAT now, you won’t get the score you want on the test. Then you’ll have to take it again, and then you’ll have to study and panic at the same time.

Back before we got involved with SparkNotes, we were both professional boxers. Our coach used to tell us, “Son(s), you gotta get in, get hit, and get out.” That’s just what you want to do to the SAT. Get in the habit of studying furiously, hit the SAT hard on test day, and get out of there with the score you want. Then you won’t have to think about the SAT ever again. No rematch. NEVER.