The College Board is the source of the SAT and its website is a good place to go for information, guidelines and help improving your SAT scores. The board offers lot of material, sample questions and guidelines on its website. These are specifically designed to evaluate your academic preparedness for college and can be accessed via email. The website also has printable practice tests and suggestions on the best ways to approach a question in all three subjects.
The essay in the writing section accounts for 30 percent of the total SAT score. Attempt to complete your essay within 25 minutes. Read the essay prompt carefully and decide your line of approach. Limit your essay to four to five paragraphs with a well-defined introduction and conclusion. Cite examples from history, literature, current affairs and personal experience. Study the multiple-choice questions carefully and try and finish these within 30 minutes. Thoroughly practice tenses, uses of adjectives and adverbs, subject-verb agreement, idioms and irregular verbs.
Regular practice is not enough to pass the math section. You need to recognize your specific weak areas and work to improve them. Identifying mistakes and trying to minimize them is vital to improving your math score. Familiarize yourself with the calculator. Check out the formulas in the reference information provided at the beginning of each math section. These will help you answer many questions. Attempt grid-in questions more than multiple-choice ones, as you won't lose marks if you answer grid-in questions incorrectly.
It is beneficial to have three to four months of practice before attempting the SAT. Pay attention to vocabulary as the more words you know, the easier it will be to tackle the sentence completion questions in the reading section. Strong vocabulary will also help in essay writing. Always look up new words in a dictionary and apply them to your writings. To raise your score, attempt four extra questions for every 50 points. First improve on your writing and math and then pay attention to the reading section.