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SAT PREP
hey guys i'm goin into junior year. i was wondering if anyone can give me some advice on the SAT and SAT PREP classes. which ones are the best and what is the best tiem to take it, a few month before the SAT so u cna extra time to review the material or right before the test so the stuff is fresh in your mind? any other advice is also good
thanks very much guys
jack
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Hey Jack. You wanna make sure that you at least get the College Board review book for the SATs, its a big blue one. Go through that and do the practice tests on your own to see how you do. You'll be taking the PSATs in the fall, which is a practice to see where you are. Since it is the summer, I would strongly advise you (and I'm telling you this because it would have helped me a great deal) to do at least an hour of work a day. An hour is not that much at all for this work. Whether it be math or reading or writing, try to get used to the type of questions they ask and how they ask it. In terms of courses I'm not too sure, but for self prep you definately should get that book. For math, I would suggest the Barrons prep book, it explains the answers and has a lot of problems, plus how to do the problems. To get good at the reading section you need to do just that - a lot of practice reading sections. So use your summer time wisely. Really though don't worry too much about it. You want to really get used to knowing vocab words and formulas now so that the night before you can have a quick and easy review, which would help a lot more than trying to cram everything in. Hope that helped and good luck.
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If this is one of those Princeton Review type classes (that you have to pay tuition for) it is an enourmous waste of money. Go to the library and check out a few SAT review/prep books (they'll have a lot of different ones) starting as soon as you can and read them. Take the practice tests. Reread them. This is all you'll be doing at the classes, oly you'll be paying an arm and a leg for them to tell you things that you'll read for free. I scored very high on mine, back in the day. Here are my tips.
-Read a lot of novels and books for pleasure. I think someone estimated that every your verbal score will increase by 20 points for every "real" book you read for fun
-Take the test (the real one) more then once, your score might vary but hundreds of points, and colleges will focus on the highest.
- Bring snacks and coffee on testing day, you'll starve to death and fall asleep if you don't.
-Read those practice books! In particular, check out ones written by students/test takers- they are loeaded with tips that you won't find in the offical books.
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