Okay, the title is a bit weird so I'll explain. I want DS11 to take the SAT during this coming school year (rather than during 2015-16) before the College Board changes the test. He needs 700 at age 12 or under to qualify for Hopkins' SET (Study of Exceptional Talent). When I had him take the 2014-15 practice test from the College Board website, he came up just a bit shy of the 700.
My initial thought was that his score should improve by next spring once he covers most of the Geometry course in school. However, when I gave him the incorrect/unanswered questions to retry, he easily got all of them correct so I don't think that it is a question of not yet having taken Geometry or Algebra 2. According to DS, he simply ran out of time on the couple of unanswered questions and was careless on the few incorrect questions.
If it is an issue of being just a bit quicker and not quite so careless, what are the best ways to improve his score without wasting time prepping? Or is doing many practice tests the only solution? On the other hand, I don't know if perhaps there were several careless errors because he knew it didn't count.
In addition to the current practice test, DS took one other practice test in spring 2013 and answered a total of maybe 100 random questions that his Algebra teacher gave him once a week during the last school year.
The reason why I don't want to tell DS to prep is because I don't think that it is a good use of his time. The AMC10 type problems are much more worthwhile if he is going to spend time prepping.
Any suggestions? BTDT?
