When I said earlier that I only got three questions wrong across all sections during a timed full test at home, that happened just once.
It wasnāt as if I consistently achieved that score every time I practiced.
At the beginning, I had to put in an incredible amount of effort just to get fewer than ten questions wrong in each section ā Reading and Writing.
It was mentally exhausting.
To bring my total mistakes under ten ā meaning no more than five per section ā I had to push myself to the edge.
There were times when I completely drained myself, feeling as though I was being chipped away piece by piece.
I was never one of those students who started off missing only three questions in total.
If the SAT were an exam where your score increased proportionally with the amount of time you studied, things would have been so much easier.
But thatās not how the SAT works.
I always say that SAT scores donāt rise like a straight slope ā they rise like a staircase.
Among all the tests Iāve ever taken, the SAT was the one where I felt the least sense of visible improvement, even when I was studying hard.
Going from:
ā¦took an enormous amount of time.