Procrastination is Key to Score High
Monday, March 6, 2006
If you want to score high on the SAT or ACT, don't waste your time studying for hours and hours...and hours. Instead, study just a few days before the test, and you'll do much better. Remember, procrastination is key to scoring high. Here are a few steps you can take to succeed in your procrastination adventure:
1) Cram three days before test day.
Three days before test day, start studying. Hopefully you haven't studied at all before this crucial point in procrastination preparation. You'll be most effective with a clean slate and a fresh mind. During your cramming sessions, drink a lot of coffee or better yet, take caffeine pills, and do your best to function on as little sleep as possible. This brings me to a second point.
2) Don't sleep the night before test day.
Sleep will mess up your circadian rhythms, so don't sleep at all the night before the test. Instead, stay up all night studying vocabulary words, doing practice math problems, and take at least three practice tests. The less sleep you get and the more studying you can fit in the night before, the better. This strategy will help you retain more information than if you were to study the material over a length of time like several months.
3) Buy every SAT/ACT secret that you can find on the Internet.
All of the SAT/ACT secrets are available on the web for a very reasonable price. Buy all of them. They will help you get a high score "guaranteed". All of these secrets are designed precisely for the procrastinator and will help procrastinating optimaliity. I would list the secrets here, but that really is not fair to the people who sell the secrets, is it?
4) Focus on the areas of strength.
Pay little attention to the subjects that you're bad at and pay more attention to the subjects you are better at. If you waste time studying the weak areas, you'll lose points on the sections that you're best at. It's better to have one great section score and several very very bad scores than three very good section scores. Hence, if you're good at math, study only for math.
Follow these steps. If you don't, you'll be sorry.
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Return to reality. If you believed anything I just said, please read the StudyBeans SAT study guide and archive IMMEDIIATELY! The truth is that if you procrastinate in your SAT test preparation, you simply will not show college admission committees your full potential. To show your full potential, don't cram, sleep well, forget about any kind of SAT/ACT secrets, and work on improving your weaknesses.
I am always dumbfounded that people would prepare for the SAT/ACT following the fake steps above. For my well-being and your testing success, please don't follow the procrastiation tips. Spread your studies over a few months, a little bit at a time. You can thank StudyBeans later.