New SAT preparation course.
How to study for the new SAT.
SAT preparation time:
As you prepare for the SAT, you want to make sure that you start soon
enough. Knowing when to begin your preparation process is critical to
having enough time to prepare, without feeling rushed. The amount of
time that is necessary to prepare depends on the individual, as well
as the score the test taker hopes to achieve. If you are a quick learner,
then you won't need to spend as much time preparing for the SAT as someone
that absorbs material and concepts at a lower rate. If you don't need
a very high SAT score in order to accomplish your goals, then you also
won't need to spend much time preparing. However, if you need a high
SAT score, then it will require additional study time.
1. Where to start when preparing for the SAT?
Start by getting an SAT prep book and go over the format, strategies
and content covered by the SAT. Make sure you understand what is going
to be on the SAT. If there is something you do not understand or remember,
make sure you review and learn it as soon as possible.
Get the official SAT Study Guide, which is written by the same people
who write the real SATs. It has several good practice tests.
2. Take a SAT practice test
Take a practice test, as if you were taking the real SATs. Make sure
you take the test timed, and in a quiet environment, just like the real
SAT.
Once you are finished the SAT practice test, grade it and take a note
of all questions you left blank or got wrong.
3. Take the SAT practice test again, with no time limits
Without any time limits, make sure you re-answer the questions you
got wrong or left blank, without checking your previous work or the
right answers. Use testing strategies if you have to (eliminating answers,
educated guesses, etc.), as if you were taking the real SAT (without
caring about time limit though.)
Check your SAT practice test once again, taking note of the questions
you got right and those you got wrong for the second time.
4. Questions you got wrong at first and right during your second SAT
practice test attempt
For the questions you got wrong the first time and right the second,
make sure you understand the question and know the answer. You might
have made a careless mistake the first time, or gotten lucky the second
time. Make sure that, if you made a silly mistake, you understand what
this careless mistake means, and you will be less likely to make the
same mistake again during your SATs.
5. Questions you got wrong on both SAT practice test attempts
For the questions you got wrong on both SAT practice test attempts,
you have identified a concept you do not know (it could be a math topic,
a literary term or vocabulary, for example). Go and learn the concept
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