Offered since 1982, Taming the SAT has helped more than 120,000 high school students prepare for this crucial entrance examination. The focus is on test-taking strategies -- strategies that help students maximize their scores on the SAT and PSAT.
What your son or daughter will learn
About the test as a whole
- Using sound test-taking methods: pacing, searching out the easier questions, thinking like the test-makers...
- Making intelligent guesses—an essential skill for SAT success
- Understanding the structure of the new test
About the SAT verbal questions
- Applying the basics, such as reading all the answer choices and crossing out incorrect choices
- Unlocking the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Systematically arriving at the answers to sentence completion questions
- Coping with complications that may arise, such as not knowing the meaning of words or finding that too many answer choices seem to work
- Attacking passage-based reading questions, which now make up more than 70% of the critical reading
- Dealing with questions on paired reading passages, including questions that relate to both of the passages
- Answering particular types of critical reading questions: vocabulary-in-context and negative-instance questions
- Taming the new writing section questions: sentence error, sentence improvement, paragraph improvement and the essay
- Solving complex, difficult problems by considering easier analogous problems
About the SAT math questions
- Using methods that speed up—sometimes eliminate—time-consuming calculations
- Spotting occasions when a calculator can help and when it can’t—when it may even slow you down or mislead you
- Tackling arithmetic and algebra questions with nonroutine strategies that save precious time or allow students to arrive at answers to problems they can’t otherwise solve
- Attacking SAT geometry problems, quite different from those encountered in high school classes
- Entering answers properly to grid-in questions—ensuring that the scoring machine doesn’t count a right answer as wrong
What your son or daughter will bring home
A complete set of top-quality, university-developed materials, available only to participants in Taming the SAT workshops:
- Two booklets, Verbal Exercises and Math Exercises. They add up to more than 100 practice questions that students tackle as they participate in the workshop.
- A Study Guide book. It summarizes all the key points made in the workshop and provides additional material for study. Allows students to review what they’ve learned after the workshop and makes it unnecessary to take notes during the workshop.
- A Practice Tests book. It contains two complete practice tests, with detailed explanations of the answers to each question. Also includes suggestions for making best use of the tests and guidelines for practicing our strategies.
PLEASE NOTE: Schedules are updated accordingly and you may browse and schedule the class local to your area. If you need any further assistance please contact us via email at tamingthesat@att.net or call toll free at 1 (800) 761-3086. You may also fax in your order at 1 (323) 660-2428.
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