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What SAT Score Will Your Child Aim For?

February 9, 2012 by Amy Martin Rodriguez, PhD 1 Comment

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Determining your child's target SAT score is the first step

Choosing your Child’s Target SAT Score

It is best to determine the desired SAT score your child will aim for before he starts to prepare for the SAT.  This is the score that he needs to achieve to get into the colleges at the top of his list.

Many of my clients look at me like I am crazy when I ask them about their target score for the SAT. “The top score is 2400, right? My son is smart and gets good grades in school. So his target score should be 2400.”

I have many students who strive for a perfect score on this difficult test, but most of my students end up setting their sights lower when they realize that a 1900 or a 2250 will get them into the most competitive colleges on their list.

“But why not shoot for a perfect score? It can’t hurt, right?” a lot of my clients ask. This is true: achieving a higher score will never hurt a student.

But achieving a perfect or near-perfect score on the SAT takes an enormous amount of time and effort. And even more importantly, it takes an incredible amount of motivation.

Before I accept 2400 as a student’s target score, I need to find out if the student wants this score so badly that he will spend countless hours doing the toughest problems and practicing strategies to improve his timing on the test.

This motivation cannot come from the parent. It must come from the student. Because it is the student who will have to spend the long hours working through the difficult problems that show up on this test. It is the student who will have to have to dig deeper into seemingly unsolvable math problems and indecipherable critical reading passages to find his way to the correct answer. In the next post I will start you on the process to determining your child’s target score.

Amy Martin Rodriguez, PhD
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Start SAT Prep now… with your child’s PSAT score report

February 1, 2012 by Amy Martin Rodriguez, PhD 7 Comments

PSAT Score Report

PSAT Score Report

You just received your child’s PSAT score report. This is the perfect time to put it into use to start your child on the path to a top SAT score.

The PSAT score report provides valuable information on how your child can expect to score on the SAT as well as the means to start preparing right now.

First you will want to approximate your child’s expected SAT score:

  • Multiply each of the individual Critical Reading, Math and Writing scores by 10 to get estimated individual SAT section scores
  • Then add the results for an estimated overall SAT score

So if your daughter got a 60 in Critical Reading, a 52 in Math, and a 65 in Writing on the PSAT, you can expect that she would score approximately 600 in Critical Reading, 520 in Math and 650 in Writing. So she would achieve an overall SAT score somewhere in the neighborhood of 1770 if she took the SAT without any further preparation.

Please be aware that the PSAT and SAT are very similar but that there are significant differences, so this is only an approximation but it is a good way to get an idea of what your child would probably score if she took the test today.

In my next post I will show you how to start using this information to get your child the SAT score she needs to get into her top colleges.

Amy Martin Rodriguez, PhD
Academic coach and Owner
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