I also don't recall any particular preparation that I did for the SAT - I may have picked up a second-hand prep book somewhere. But it was not like it was rock

I also don't recall any particular preparation that I did for the SAT - I may have picked up a second-hand prep book somewhere. But it was not like it was rocket science to know how one is supposed to take these kinds of tests. I graduated from a very unremarkable rural school system in New England. From 2nd grade on, we took a standardized scantron-type test (the CAT test, if I recall correctly). In 4th and 7th or 8th we took a state-wide standardized test that was more of the same multiple-choice sections, with an additional writing component that was a watered-down version of the now-discontinued writing portion of the SAT. Then I believe that they had us all take the PSAT in 10th or 11th grade, and they also encouraged people to take the ASVAB, as we had a large percentage that were planning on the military anyway. By the point it was time to take the SATs, all of the strategies and gimmicks that are covered in test prep for the SAT were pretty old hat, and we'd been through that wringer at least a dozen times over by then.