Chances are that, at some point in your life, you'll be taking the SAT. If you prepare for it properly, you shouldn't have much trouble doing well on it. Here are five tips that you can use to perform better on it.

First, you need to study for it. That seems like a given, but a lot of people fail to do it, and it leads to their downfall.

Another thing you can do is to read a lot of novels and books. There is a lot of vocabulary on the SAT, and the more words you know the better chance you'll have of scoring highly on that section.

A lot of people want to take a practice SAT before they take the real one so that they can be more prepared. Whether that will work for you largely depends on who you are and whether you need the test preparation.

Some people learn by doing, in which case the practice test might help you. Others learn by reading, in which case the books for test preparation would likely be more helpful than the practice tests. Some practice tests are also very different than others, and whether they help you often depends on that, as well.