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Most schools prefer to enroll students who have an SAT composite score of at least 1,000, which is approximately 500 on both the English and the math tests.

If your English score is 550 or higher, you may be able to get away with a math score that’s slightly less than 500. Even so, a good first goal would be to break 500 on the math test.

To get this score, you need to answer about 32 of the 58 SAT math questions correctly. To this end, refer to Table 1-1, and then plan to do the following:

 Attempt to answer all 20 easy questions correctly.

 Choose 12 out of 18 medium questions to answer correctly, and guess the rest.

 Guess on the 20 hard questions.

I know it seems weird to guess so many questions. But the SAT is different from the tests you take in school, where you need to get at least 80 percent right to get a decent grade.

Choosing 32 easy and medium questions to focus on gives you almost three minutes per question, which increases your changes of answering more questions correctly. And remember that you have a 25 percent chance of guessing each multiple-choice question correctly, which will also help increase your score a bit.

Believe me, in my experience working with hundreds of students, if you’re simply trying to break 500, you probably need to give yourself more time by answering fewer questions.