Order the "blue book" and begin reading/skimming the parts that will get you familiar with format.
Practice, practice, practice. Begin the free practice tests at the back and time out every section exactly as it should be timed! Set an alarm or something but make sure you time it. DO NOT GUESS, use this as a time to figure out what you know and what you don't know 100%.
Go over all of the problems that you got wrong and make sure you understand why you got them wrong! Don't focus on what the right answer is, focus on the process.
Finally become familiar with College Confidential's SAT Prep section and all of the guides that have already been consolidated into one thread.

Additional Tips:

-go through Vocab with flashcards and make it a habit to try and use 5 new words a day in regular writing/conversation to better remember and understand context.

-spend a lot of time on collegeconfidential.com in general, it is by far the largest and most comprehensive resource I ever had while looking at colleges.

-keep in mind that everyone out there agrees that the Writing section is totally coachable, meaning that with a week or two of prep you should be able to guarantee yourself 700-800 points.

-math sections are all very simple as far as concepts but they will try to come up with new tricks and outside symbols that you won't have ever seen in a standard math class. Just remember that the SAT is a far trickier test than the ACT, but that knowledge can be used to your advantage as long as you are never intimidated by things you have never seen before. Try to apply conceptual formulas you learned in regular Algebra/Geometry classes to these problems instead of trying to understand the symbols.

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