Hey guys!
Today I'll be giving you some advice about the SAT
So to start off with - some studying tips
My main advice would be to do a lot of practice questions
Ideally, you'd only use official SAT questions made by the College Board
This way you get used to how they ask the questions
And what the correct opinion is
Doing these questions is like working up a muscle
Or developing a skill
It's something you can improve on as you do it more
However, another really important aspect of doing practice questions is to address your mistakes
Make sure you always read the answer explanations or ask someone else for help
That way you understand the reasons why your answer was incorrect and why the correct answer is what it is
Also the mistakes you make will help you figure out which aspects you need to focus on more and practice more
If you always find yourself making mistakes in geometry
Then do more geometry questions
Yes, you do want to continue practicing the areas you're strong in to maintain that strength
But it also is necessary to patch over and to raise up the areas that aren't quite as strong
This is something else that is idealised and I honestly didn't do this all that often
But when you do your practice questions
Try to make the environment as much like the actual SAT test environment as possible
So this means a silent environment using number two wood case pencils doing it on paper
Don't take out your phone
So resource recommendations for practice questions
My number one favorite and it's what I use to study for the SAT is Khan Academy
It connects to your previous SAT and PSAT scores and also takes into consideration
What you make mistakes on as you do their practice
To do some sort of magical
computer algorithm thing to serve you questions in areas that you most need to work on
Some things to focus on for particular subject areas for reading and writing
This isn't a real study tip that you can implement in the week or the month or even two months before the test
Rather a general lifestyle thing
It helps to be well-read and you'll have a better intuitive understanding of grammar and
How paragraphs and essays are structured. Yes. This is kind of hard to implement right before a test
but it's never too late to start reading more to areas that you definitely want to pay attention to though our
number one the concept of
agreement
So making sure that your verb tenses match within a section making sure that the subject matches the conjugation of the verb
also punctuation
specifically the colon the semicolon and the dash
Now moving on to the math section the math knowledge that you need for the SAT is algebra two
So if you haven't taken that yet, you'll probably need to either self study it or take an additional class
I don't really know how to help with this
But one tip I do have is to get really quick and really accurate at mental math
this will help you in the non calculator section since you'll be able to do those operations more quickly and more correctly and
It's also useful for calculator sections because you'll be more efficient since you don't need to punch in those operations into your calculator
Instead you can quickly do them in your head the way you can study. This skill is really simple
You can do this with the math homework and SAT math practice that you're already doing. Just
Don't use your calculator for anything unless it's absolutely a hundred percent necessary
so also I don't really have si advice because I
Didn't really prepare for the essay
I did two practice ones
Never really got anyone else to read them and give me feedback and I got a pretty bad score on the essay. So
It's what I deserved and I can't really help you
Now for it tips on taking the test in answering the questions
So in general keep in mind that every question is worth the same amount
So if you get stuck on one don't waste your time on trying to figure it out when you could just keep going
First go through and pick up all the easy points of things how you already know?
Then you can go back and start working on the March anyone's
This is key
If you have problems with running out of time
And of course, be sure to guess if you don't get to certain questions
Since the SAT doesn't penalize you for getting a question wrong
Now for reading one of my favorite question types are the ones that ask you to support a previous answer using
Evidence in these types of questions. It's really easy to take advantage of the multiple-choice format
usually only one pairing of an answer and a segment of evidence will make sense both together and
Incorrectly answering the question next for the writing section
Pick the answer that is most concise and still captures all the information and makes grammatical sense
for example if your choices are tan
tan brown and
Tannish light brownish hue then obviously tan is the correct answer since it captures all of the information
While being the most concise another strategy for writing
Although it can be a double-edged sword is to substitute all of the answer choices
In to the blank and read the section aloud in your head and see which one makes the most sense
But this could be dangerous if you have a fundamental misunderstanding in the way grammar works in your head
So make sure to always pay attention to grammar rules first and foremost and then to narrow it down
just use what sounds best in your head and
lastly for math
one main thing that caused me to make mistakes is not paying attention to what exactly the question is asking for if
The question asks you to find Y X will probably be an answer choice
So don't get fooled by that make sure you underline or circle or mark up the question
To pay attention to any words that might trip you up that way. You actually answer the correct question
Unless you're absolutely a hundred percent sure that you'll have enough time to go and double-check every single question as you do the questions
mark
The ones that you really want to go back and check since some types of questions are more time-consuming more tedious and more
errors and others
these notes of what you need or don't really need to go back and check will make you more efficient throughout the section and
Lastly now let's say you finished studying finished taking the test and you've gotten your score back
How do you decide what to do with that score? Is it good enough should you retake the test?
hopefully you have a college list or at least an idea of a couple of schools that you might want to attend for all of
those schools Google SAT percentiles for that school
You'll probably find a table with 25th 50th and 75th percentile
So 50th percentile would be the average and you definitely want to be above that 50th percentile
Ideally you'd also be above the 75th
But if you're pretty close
I don't
think it matters that much and
Remember that your SAT score doesn't define who you are and you can always improve it
Don't think that just because you've got a certain number on that one test
it means that you're dumb and a bad person because it doesn't
I Hope you found this video helpful and good luck on your SAT. If you're done studying
I upload new videos every Friday and my Tumblr and Instagram are at studyquill
See you next time!