what's going on guys I'm back with another video and this video I'm gonna
show you my ultimate guessing guide for the SAT and we all know sometimes time
gets in the way of SAT and your pressure for time and you really have to decide
what choice to pick quickly so it usually what most people do is they sat guessing guide
either randomly circle questions the question answers based on some pattern
like go to ABCD then see VA ABCD or some just pick one letter and go all the way
down so they'll pick bbbbbb like for example my teacher he told me
to always take beep alright if you have to guess like the last five just take B
typically pick me pick me now for the SAT you don't want to do that okay what
you actually want to do and also this can apply to any test what you want to sat guessing guide
do is smart guess when I say smart guess I mean instead of spending the last 30
seconds of the SAT just circling in B I want you guys to spend the last two
minutes smart guesting for your answer choices now what I mean by smart
guessing imma discussed in this video oh you can see right here for example if
I look at number two okay number two before I even look at the actual
question or I'll look at the question I already know it's a system of linear
equations I have to find X or Y right and that comes through practice right
away I look at all four answer choices okay guys what you want to do is you sat guessing guide
want to look at all four answer choices and see the discrepancies between one of
them and the other three for example so abd they all have negative 2 as the
y-coordinate C does not all of them they see now so I'll eliminate C okay now I
look at all four again okay so I know C's eliminated but I still want to look
at all four go to find more discrepancies a is the only one with
three unit right three in any of the coordinates the CB BCD all have twos so
I'll eliminate eight now it's time look at B and D well B and D it's a 50-50
shot at this point so like I said always pick B if you're at the 50/50 and B's
when the choices pick B don't pick a is usually the trap answer B is usually the
correct answer in my opinion that's why we go with solid would be and this
specific question that answers actually right B is answer for this question what
I recommend guys is reading sat guessing guide entire question or skimming as fast as
you can when you have a smart guess okay and the reason I say two minutes the
smart guess it's because you have to read the questions in order to smart
guess write blind guessing is reading a circle whatever without even reading the
question smart guessing is reading the question and then circling based on some
heuristic that you develop in your mind and the thing is you need some time to
read the questions that's why it is fine instead of spending the last thirty
second guessing why don't you spend the last two miss SAT smart guessing okay so
if asking this question real quick slow to contains point one a does not matter
with lalalala the last line the two lines intersect at
the point a B what is the value of a plus B so now you really want to think
as a test maker or you want to think of what are some student errors that can be
made well they may find a they may find B and they may put the answer whatever a
is they may put that as an answer or whatever B is they may put that as an
answer and they might forget to do a plus B so let's take of what which to
which of these two answer choices added together give you another answer choice
let's see a negative four negative one give you negative five not on here for sat guessing guide
negative one gives you three threes up here I'll go with B right away and this
falls our thinking that okay a maybe four and B maybe negative one now the
constant error would be to put a right if for four they may calculate a first
they may put for an answer or they may calculate B first and put negative one
has an answer they may forget to add them so these if these are the two
common student mistakes if you add them together you get three so the answer is
three in my opinion and in this case it actually history now I was looking
number 11 number 11 common student air would just be divide the fraction right
down the middle well I split it right down the middle to
add or subtract so already eliminate eliminate beat now 5050 C or D if I look
at all for an choices I see that it has minus plus minus plus so it's not like I
can know which operation has a high chance of being correct just either
between C or D and this is a 50/50 shot like I said but it's better than a 25% sat guessing guide
shot if you had all four viable answers right you want to
minimize it to two or if if you can't do one minimize to two in this case we were
able to minimize into two so now it's 5050 shot you know with C or D obviously
I usually go with the one that's higher up if it's not so see now let's look at
12 actually this look at another one so 14 like I said skim the question really
quick a radioactive substance is the case at an annual rate of 13% that first
sentence is enough to tell me that if considering the exponential form right
it's 1 - 1 - what are the percentages in this case 13% so point 1 3 and that sat guessing guide sat guessing guide
equals 0.87 right point 8 7 so point 8 7 9 there down there down
there it's an a I'll put a right away that's that's how I want you got smart
guess now all we see 3 the entire question you may get some other clues
that point to B being the correct answer or some other question minute correct
answer some other answer being the correct answer but what I want you to do
when you're smart guess is get the minimal amount of information okay
guys once you have the minimal amount of information I want you to make a guess
off of that okay now let's try this one 15 another common error would just be
just to be ignore the X's so that would be a so you get circles to get that out
of here another mistake would just to be divide that divide this part and then
divide this part so I'll be like 5 minus 2/3 yet so like be wrong so now again C
or D 50/50 shot what I would do is again another student a student error could
just to be leaves a 5 out and there's 2 minus 2 over X plus 3 that that's that's
almost a giveaway right so again I wouldn't pick C either I'd pick B so
let's look at number 3 skimming real fast it's an M text
message each out for 5 hours so already I know 5 m okay it's all I need to know
5 m right because our nose scent and text messages each hour for 5 hours
that's what I'm thinking of so automatically I see 5 m at sea topic see
now say I didn't read the question I'm just looking at the answer choices right
so yeah like 10 seconds left I don't have time to read an answer choice right
away 5 m of 5 4 4 or 5 right to answer choices have this um this mix up right
they're just probably guessing if you get silent variable to the correct
coefficient so already I know a and B are wrong
they don't have any binomial see you near only binomials right they share
this so the choice that is the probability of a and B being correct is sat guessing guide
highly like wrong all right so as you see you're deep and then like I said
pick the one that's higher up so I go with C and look at all the answer
choices right I see two of them have 2x squared Y right C and D a and B share
nothing they have no nothing about that shows
that a these two together has something these two though
but C and D they both have this two x squared y - x squared Y which Amy do not
so Amy are out of here all right but now when I try to distinguish whether it's C
or D I want to look at all four answer choices again so B has this 8 X 8 X Y
squared minus 6x plus 2 minus 6 Y squared just ideas right see does it
have that C is a 2 x squared Y which appears 2xy squared which appears
nowhere else anywhere on a B or D right so I'll take C out and optic D now with
these type of questions I see that you're supposed to be switching
quantities around right the quantities are usually still there there's
expressed in a different way it is not really simplified and in this case C and
D are very simplified so C and E are just wrong man I'd take that out that's
a test maker would you want to make it that easy for the student No so that's a
student should be able to recognize that that there's no way it's this easy right
it's no way just C or D bank no there's more to it and now you have to think of
the common student mistake which is you just which the variable sat guessing guide
it says expressed in terms of P right so they may do switch m and P which is
obviously wrong so which answer choice has that common student error a does all
right a is usually the common error so B is a correct answer now I'm gonna give
you guys an example of where this does not work so you guys don't think this is
some amazing technique to always get the correct answer if you look at number 9
negative 6 negative 6 and C and D a and B had nothing shared right so
instinctively you may think a and B are wrong right and it's either between C or
D and then the high one the one that's higher up is C obviously C comes before
D so you go to C in this case the correct answer is actually B
so and that essa that's just a common example I have how this this trick may
not work right and this trick usually does get to you get you down to like two
viable answer choices that usually the correct answer team wanted them to
sometimes it doesn't work in this case it didn't work and you have to accept
that that's why this is a heuristic a guessing trick it's not a guaranteed way
to find a solution it's not an algorithm this is only for the last two minutes of
SAT we have more time that actually read the problem and try to find an algorithm sat guessing guide
that gets you the correct answer if you're down two minutes and time is you
know time is like it's over right it's almost over sat guessing guide
now I want you guys to just use a smart guessing trick don't just circle bbbb
all the way down I'll let you out like ten seconds left I have two left in the
a circle B but otherwise if you're down in two minutes and you have some answer
choices left answer as many as you can smartly and then maybe the last ten
second you can guess B all the way down but that's what I want you guys to do in
terms of guessing for the SAT so hope you guys like this video please like sat guessing guide
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