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[ahmalsabag]

For those of you who score really high number sense scores, how do I improve? How long does it take to improve your score from a 90 to a 270?

[shrig94]

My recommendation:
Contact Anthony Newberry:(940) 224-9049
and buy his materials, obviously he knows a thing or two about ns if he has a team with 6 kids who can score over 200.

Buy Numsen tests, and take 2 easy's and a uil or medium a day.
Take 1 real UIL test a day.
Once you can score over 250 on numsen easy's consistently, set the clock for 10 minutes and just do two numsen easy back pages. Once, that becomes easy, move up to mediums.

You should be a beast with that practice.
45 minutes a day for 3 months will make you insane.

[sinkokuyou]

easiest way:
U need to have a striong motivation on the subject(NUMSEN), and learn to do problems simply by standing next to a guy who scores 300+ and ask them questions, and see how different u r from them, and for most of us, we will have a sense of experienced way on doing problems, and then start doing tests when u feel comfortable, do NOT spend the whole summer doing those tests, bcs then u'll get bored and want to quit the club even before the school starts... and be sure to have unlimited resourses as well as unlimited time...
Before the test(the day before), this is what u do: study tricks, and do 3 tests of different levels(Easy, Medium, Hard, or UIL or one that don't have a level mark), and have a good night sleep.
Before the test(within 2hrs), this is what u do: NOTHING, u simply sitting there, looking at the celling and waiting for the test to start, and then u'll be hungry for it, so u'll probably finish the test and miss 4-10 problems, getting approx 300...
During the test: Make sure u have 2 pens(non-black, bcs ur test may have dots on it, and if u use a black pen, they may think u wrote it and will count it wrong) and a timer that don't beep, look carefully at questions that u miss often, if u recognized a question u don't know to do, leave it blank and move on, save the blank for later use... remember, don't skip more than 5, bcs then u'll loose for sure... unless u r those whose geniuses who can get perfect, or those whose opponent is too weak that were being ignored athosand times by athosand ppl already... and also during the test, concentrate...
After the test: think over what u may have missed, and try to predict ur score, and practise punchins for CalcApp...

[SumitG]

Alright, so...in line with what the other people here are saying, I'll say that you should practice. Maybe when you're starting, take like 5-10 tests a day until you are able to reach the back consistently. Then concentrate on the 3rd column for a while. The 4th column is a joke, there's no need to practice it. If there are specific problems which you have problems with, make sure you do a lot of those. If you can't get a trick, you can come here and ask and I'm sure somebody will develop one.

Next, for competition practice. Once you've gotten the basis down and everything and can at least break 200, are decently accurate, etc. You'll want to start practicing speed to finish things up. To do this, do tests while listening to high-speed techno music. We're talking 180 bpm here.
(Note: I have never actually done this before state. I've done it at Region with decent results though.)

[88bobcat]