[aruss]

Yes, there are ways to speed up your time. When I took the SAT (2011), the main skill I developed was to quickly categorize the kind of question. Since there are only a few different kinds of questions, you could train yourself to do this formulaically/algorithmically. The type of question tells you how to eliminate a couple of the answer choices, and then you apply another question-type-specific algorithm to figure out the answer from the remaining options.

[bombcar]

The Kaplan book (or similar) went over this. You learn to avoid “solving the problem the hard way” as much as possible.

However, the new digital SAT will require new strategies because its computer assisted, more like the LSAT/GRE (?) is.