The top secret to preparing for any college entrance exams is to start your preparation several months in move forward. I would propose about four months before your first college test date. Slow and steady in fact does win the race. Now as part of your college test prep, you want to have two parts.

 You want to have a happy constituent to your preparation, in which you’re reviewing the rules of grammar, the vocabulary that you may need, and the basic math concepts that the test is going to test you on. In addition, you want to have a part that deals with test strategies.

How to use your time effectively, when to guess and when to leave questions blank. I think also as part of the college test training, you’ll want to take several timed practice tests, so that you’re used to sitting for an comprehensive period of time.

One common mistake that many students make while taking the SAT is that they miss-bubble the answer sheet. In other words, they make the common mistake of putting the answer for question number 5 into the oval for question number 4, and then the rest of their test is then off by one question which can be quite a disaster. You want to put your answers to each question in your test booklet as well as transferring it to your answer sheet.

Another common mistake that students make while taking the SAT is that they’re not well-known with the directions and the format of the test, so when the real test begins, they spend a lot of time interpretation the directions and trying to figure out what they’re supposed to do. So you want to at least prepare for the directions and the format. In addition, I would say students have trouble with the timing.

They get stuck on one or two questions which use up a lot of time. It’s actually important to move at a nice, steady pace so that you at least get to seem at every question on the test even if not of necessity answer every question. Also, what happens is that some student’s just panic if they hit a question or two that appear mainly difficult. I would say just relax. One third of the questions have to be easy.

 Another one third is going to be of midrange complexity. Only one third of the questions are what the test makers think to be very hard. If you hit a patch of hard questions, relax, skip to a section that might be easier, and then take it from there.

(1). What should I do if I am tempt to cheat?

Don’t cheat in an exam. There’s a simple answer. You’re only fooling yourself. The likelihood is that you’ll get caught. A teacher - they call them invigilators in the examination room itself - is patrolling the examination room and there might be more than one. If you’re trying to cheat by looking at something, a piece of paper, or whatever that you’ve taken in, there’s always the temptation to look up and see if the invigilator is there. From the invigilator’s standpoint, they will note that, and you could not only be ineligible from that examination you’re sitting, but you could be not entitled from examinations for a number of years. Cheating in exams is a very, very serious thing, so don’t do it. If you’re at the point of having to cheat, then the likelihood is that you’re not going to do well on the examination at all.

(2). Everyone has answered differently to me, what should I do?

If everyone has answered differently to you, there’s nothing you can do to influence the examination paper that you’ve just taken but there’s an awful lot you can do with the one you’re about to take. Avoid your friends outside the examination room, don’t have these discussions. Go home, put the examination paper in a drawer and don’t look at it again until your own grandchildren ask to see it. It is of no importance anymore. The examiner will make a decision if you’ve done well on the examination or not. Concentrate on the next paper you’re going to take and that’s where you can make a dissimilarity.

 (3). Everyone finishes before me, what can I do?

It doesn’t matter whether everybody walks out after 1 minute; you’re there for whatever time of the test. It’s your paper that’s going to be marked, and it’s your score that you’re paying notice in, not other popular grades. You don’t be familiar with what they’ve done on the examination paper. Forget about everyone about you and concentrate on your own paper.

(4). Hearing what other people have written makes me think I have answered wrongly, what should I do?

It doesn’t mean anything. It’s your examination, and it’s your paper that’s going to be marked, so think on what you do. There are rushers and planners in examinations. Some people just go ahead without understanding the question paper properly, and they give the wrong answers to the question because they’ve not understand writing the text carefully. They write many, many notes and It doesn’t substance, it’s a load of refuse what they’re symbols. It won’t influence your examination mark finally. So think on your own paper and ignore everybody else.