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For high scorers, only the hardest problems near the end really matter. That’s where top math students get lost, waste time, feel stress, and lose points. How to avoid freaking out over crazy-hard questions? Three concrete suggestions follow.   1. Handle intimidation It’s normal to feel intimidated by a long, wordy, or complex problem. Most of the time, however, you’ll be able to answer the question correctly in a reasonable amount of time, if you give yourself a chance. Always approach such a problem with the mentality that you can solve it. Boil down the question. Reread and make sure you understand each sentence, part by part. You probably can, in fact, do this. If you slow down a bit, read carefully, take notes, and focus intently, you’ll be successful most of the time. 2. Dodge nightmare questions Instead of getting hung up on an unsolvable problem, it’s better to surrender, as quickly as possible, and live to fight another day. Prevent the wasted time, loss of energy, frust...

For high scorers, only the hardest problems near the end really matter. That’s where top math students get lost, waste time, feel stress, and lose points. How to avoid freaking out over crazy-hard questions? Three concrete suggestions follow.   1. Handle intimidation It’s normal to feel intimidated by a long, wordy, or complex problem. Most of the time, however, you’ll be able to answer the question correctly in a reasonable amount of time, if you give yourself a chance. Always approach such a problem with the mentality that you can solve it. Boil down the question. Reread and make sure you understand each sentence, part by part. You probably can, in fact, do this. If you slow down a bit, read carefully, take notes, and focus intently, you’ll be successful most of the time. 2. Dodge nightmare questions Instead of getting hung up on an unsolvable problem, it’s better to surrender, as quickly as possible, and live to fight another day. Prevent the wasted time, loss of energy, frust...

The Official Digital SAT Study Guide by The College Board has been the sine qua non of SAT work for decades.  But with the SAT's switch to a new digital format, just how useful is this latest incarnation of the venerable test prep tome? Why buy a book printed on paper when the test is now taken on-screen? These are good questions. The new edition contains four non-adaptive paper versions of the digital SAT – the very same "linear" tests made available as free downloads to students everywhere – which are roughly 70% identical to the four official adaptive on-screen tests contained in the College Board's BlueBook app (the only official tests available in on-screen adaptive form). So that's even less reason to buy the book, right? Right. Except for one thing. Currently, there's a severe scarcity of official SAT practice materials (this happens each time the College Board decides to overhaul the test). Every new official SAT question made available to the public...

The Official Digital SAT Study Guide by The College Board has been the sine qua non of SAT work for decades.  But with the SAT's switch to a new digital format, just how useful is this latest incarnation of the venerable test prep tome? Why buy a book printed on paper when the test is now taken on-screen? These are good questions. The new edition contains four non-adaptive paper versions of the digital SAT – the very same "linear" tests made available as free downloads to students everywhere – which are roughly 70% identical to the four official adaptive on-screen tests contained in the College Board's BlueBook app (the only official tests available in on-screen adaptive form). So that's even less reason to buy the book, right? Right. Except for one thing. Currently, there's a severe scarcity of official SAT practice materials (this happens each time the College Board decides to overhaul the test). Every new official SAT question made available to the public...

The Official Digital SAT Study Guide by The College Board has been the sine qua non of SAT work for decades.  But with the SAT's switch to a new digital format, just how useful is this latest incarnation of the venerable test prep tome? Why buy a book printed on paper when the test is now taken on-screen? These are good questions. The new edition contains four non-adaptive paper versions of the digital SAT – the very same "linear" tests made available as free downloads to students everywhere – which are roughly 70% identical to the four official adaptive on-screen tests contained in the College Board's BlueBook app (the only official tests available in on-screen adaptive form). So that's even less reason to buy the book, right? Right. Except for one thing. Currently, there's a severe scarcity of official SAT practice materials (this happens each time the College Board decides to overhaul the test). Every new official SAT question made available to the public...