when i took it a few weeks ago i didn't really realize how long it was. yeah, i understood it was from 9-1, but i really didn't think it was that long until i was sitting in the room taking the test and all i could think about was how i wished i would have had breakfast and i would have gone to sleep a few hours earlier. if you eat breakfast and get a good nights sleep (not in that order...), as generic as that sounds, you're going to do better than you would if you didn't do those things like i did. i didn't do bad (1570), but i would have done a lot better if i wouldn't have had those two things to throw me off track.
also don't do like the guy next to me and fall asleep during the test. waste of 50 dollars.
they make study books, but those are really boring. i'd find a math teacher that you respect, like a lot, and think you'd have fun around to coach you on your weak points. my weak point is geometry, and my math section was chock full of it. when i take it again in june i feel i'll do better because i've had this help. (and a friend of mine wrote a code on his TI that finds all the missing angles/sides of triangles if you plug in the only thing you know about it. it's pretty sweet. =D )
just don't get wigged out over it. yeah it's an important test, but you either know the information or you don't. don't let not knowing an answer trip you up. if you can't get it in a short amount of time then skip it as that won't cost you any points at all, but marking a wrong answer will.
