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Why Is Your SAT Score Stuck? How to Break Through Score Plateaus

“When I wrote my first Bluebook practice test, my score was 1360. I spent the next two months preparing hard. Now my score is always in the 1460 to 1500 range and doesn’t go past 1520.” Sounds familiar? You are not alone. Stop blaming yourself. The test is designed that way. So, how do we break that barrier? The “Skill Knob” vs. The “Psychology Knob” The SAT uses a bunch of different “knobs” to tune each question. Solving hundreds of Algebra problems won’t get you past a certain score, because that’s where the skill knob ends and the psychology knob starts turning.
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