by dmkphotography

Choosing An Sat Tutor: Is It Even Worth The Money?

As you navigate your way through the college admissions process, hiring a tutor to help your son or daughter prepare for the SAT is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make. It’s a big investment of time and money. You want the best return on your investment that you can possibly get.

The key to getting a big return is the tutor that you choose.

If you make the wrong choice, you’ll face endless battles with your son or daughter over the amount of effort he’s putting into his lessons and homework, and the prospect of little or no improvement in his score.

If you pick the right tutor, you’ll dramatically increase the chance that you’ll end up with a happy, motivated, confident child who’s SAT score goes through the roof.

Choosing wisely can be a daunting prospect. There are a lot of tutors and a lot of tutoring companies. It can feel like you’re buying a car. You don’t hire a tutor very often, and you’re dealing with a professional who’s job it is to sell his services or those of his company.

How do you cut through the jargon? How do you evaluate their claims of success? When you speak to a couple of them, you’ll realize there are conflicting approaches to helping students improve their scores. How do you know which is right? Will it work for your child? How do you know if the tutor is any good? What questions should you ask? What answers should you expect?

Should you hire a tutor at all?

If you’re reading this report, you’ve probably decided to hire one. If you’re on the fence, let’s examine a few reasons why hiring the right tutor can make a big difference for your child.

1. It’s hard to get into a good college today. The number of applicants to the most     desired schools has gone up dramatically in recent years. The number of students being admitted has stayed fairly constant. Many of the top private and state schools are reporting record low admissions rates.

Are you considering a top public university? In the spring of 2009, UCLA admitted only 21% of its applicants, the lowest rate of any public university in the country.  UC Berkeley wasn’t far behind with an admission rate of 23%.

Considering a top private school? Some Ivy League universities had admission rates of less than 10%. The top small private colleges had admission rates in the teens.

2. You’ll pay as much, if not more, at many mid-ranking private colleges and universities as you will at the most selective schools. In a recent study of the cost and quality of a college education, Malcom Gertz, a professor of economics at Vanderbilt, found that the price of tuition is not directly associated with the quality of education.1 In fact, the most selective colleges offer the most financial help.

3. Projected lifetime income for students at the most selective colleges and universities is significantly higher than it is for students at less selective universities. According to Caroline Hoxley, a Stanford based economist, the average difference in projected income is .2 million.2

4. Higher SAT scores mean a greater likelihood of a getting a merit based grant or scholarship.  

5. Perhaps most importantly, a significantly higher SAT score increases the likelihood that your child will get into the school of his dreams.  

Choosing a college is an enormous decision. Better SAT scores mean more choices. Now more than ever, the stakes are high. Test preparation isn’t just another educational expense – it’s an investment in your child’s future.

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by larrysphatpage

If you want your child to succeed on the SAT exam, a SAT tutor New York can help

As a concerned parent, you want nothing but the best for your kids. You want them to be happy of course, but you also want to make sure that they get into a good school so they can get a good job and will therefore be able to support themselves. So you naturally want to do whatever you can to ensure that your kids get into a well respected college. These days, most colleges look heavily at prospective students’ SAT scores, as well as their high school transcripts. But the SAT score is the most important factor in whether or not your child gets accepted into the school of his or her choice. That is so why so many parents in the tri state area hire an SAT tutor New York to help their children be as prepared for the SAT as possible, so they can get the best score possible, and can therefore hopefully get into the school of their choice, ensuring that their future is bright.

When you enlist the services of a SAT tutor New York for your child, you are taking an active step in ensuring that they will get a good school. This is imperative because the SAT school is often the first thing that colleges look at when trying to decide whether or not to accept a particular student. A SAT tutor New York can help students in the New York area prepare for the SAT exam, focusing on areas that need improving, as well as focusing on general test taking techniques which can help students in all future academic endeavors. This two pronged attack ensures that your child will be more than ready to take the SAT, and will be more than ready to succeed in life.

A SAT tutor New York can help your student get the best possible SAT score

Some parents are unsure at what age is best to hire a SAT Tutor New York for their child. The truth of the matter is that it is never really too early, and that children of all ages can benefit from the services of a SAT tutor New York. But realistically speaking, high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors have the most to gain from regular sessions with a SAT tutor New York. These students are preparing for college already, so it stands to reason then that hiring a SAT tutor New York for them is really a good idea.

Once you decide to take the step of hiring a SAT tutor New York, your tutor will design a curriculum that is customized for your students needs. For example, if your student excels at multiple choice questions, but struggles with essay writing, then you SAT tutor New York will focus on this area, as it promises the largest opportunity for growth. Through sound educational decisions, your SAT tutor New York will have your student running at the highest level of efficiency when it comes to test time. So don’t delay another day, get in contact with a SAT tutor New York today. You and your child will be glad you did.

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by MeltCupid

How To Choose An Sat Tutor: Questions To Ask, And Answers To Expect

What to look for in a tutor

Whether your son or daughter is shooting for a perfect score, happy to break a 1700, or somewhere in between, you want a tutor who can help her to break through to the next level and reach her potential.

Since junior and senior year of high school are a busy time, you also want a tutor who can craft an approach that will be easiest for your particular child and most conducive to learning without stress. There’s work involved, of course, but the right SAT tutor should increase her confidence, calm her fears, inspire and motivate her, help her to focus, and take an approach to tutoring that’s tailored to her particular strengths and weakness and works best for her personally.

Taking the SAT is similar to activities like sports and theater; there are many factors that affect someone’s performance. It’s not always what a student knows or how talented he is that makes the difference. If you want your child to perform at his best in a super stressful, make or break test taking situation, you need a tutor who can help him prepare mentally and emotionally, not just academically, for the test.

The right SAT tutor will help your child learn exactly what’s going to be on the test and how to approach it. As importantly, the right tutor will help him learn the mentality to have while taking the test and the mentality to have while studying. That’s the combination that results in a greatly improved score.

It’s relatively easy to find a tutor who understands the material that’s tested on the SAT and the problem solving methods. It’s hard to find a tutor who understands his students.

Here are are some questions to ask, and some answers to look for, to help you make this very important decision.

1) Can I speak directly to the tutor you plan to assign to my child?

If you’re thinking of hiring a tutor from a company such as Kaplan, Princeton Review, Revolution, or any other company of that nature, ask them if you can speak to the tutor they plan to assign to your son or daughter before you make a commitment to hire them.

It’s not enough to know the company’s philosophy or the company’s track record. If they won’t allow you to speak with the tutor directly before you make a final decision, walk away.  

Of course they train their tutors, and would never send a tutor who didn’t understand the algebra or know the grammar rules. It’s not enough that the tutor knows the material. You have to ask the specific tutor himself the questions that follow, and receive satisfactory answers, or you run a high risk of getting a tutor who can’t help your child.

2) Do you have testimonials or references?

Every tutor will have them. The important thing here is that if you’re considering a tutor from a test prep company, you have to get testimonials or references for that tutor himself. You can’t rely on those for the company in general.

3) How much experience do you have?

Experience doesn’t equal effectiveness. Someone with 7 years of experience won’t necessarily be better than someone with only three. However, a tutor with only a year or two of experience hasn’t worked with enough students.

Every student is different. They have different issues, different learning styles, different personalities, and different roadblocks that get in the way of doing their best. You can’t count on a tutor with only a couple of years of experience to handle the particular challenges that your son or daughter will face on her way to getting the score she deserves.

4) What’s the most important factor in getting the best score possible?

There are 2 acceptable answers.

The first one is “focus.” Focus is the most important factor in getting the best score possible. When taking the SAT, if a student isn’t paying full attention at every moment, he’ll get questions wrong when he knows how to get them right.

Answers that seem right but are actually wrong are built into every section of the test. A skilled tutor knows this and is always helping his students sharpen their focus. It’s the absolute, number one key at all score levels.

The second acceptable answer is motivation or perseverance. As President Obama said in his back to school speech,

“People succeed because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time… If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying. No one’s born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work… You’ve got to practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.”3

Studying for the SAT can be frustrating. It can make a student feel stupid sometimes. The key is to keep working at it.

It sounds obvious, but sometimes that’s what eludes us. If a tutor doesn’t know that motivation and perseverance are the key to massive improvement, he either hasn’t worked with enough students, or he doesn’t know how to help his students address these challenges.

5) What is the key to keeping a student motivated?

There are 3 keys to staying motivated.

The first is knowing why you want to get your results.  When a student is motivated by a strong desire to get into a particular school, she’ll stay motivated to push ahead with studying for the SAT even when it gets tough.  

The second key is expecting a positive outcome. If a student gets discouraged and feels like she won’t reach her goal, her motivation to keep studying will weaken. When a student expects to be successful, her motivation will stay strong.

The third key to staying motivated is enjoying the process. It really helps when the tutoring sessions are fun and engaging.

A skilled tutor will impact all of these areas. If a tutor says that motivation is purely the student’s responsibility, find a different tutor.   

6) How do you eliminate careless mistakes in the Math section?

You can think of a careless mistake as one where you knew the right answer, but made some sort of mistake along the way. The issue isn’t carelessness, though, it’s a loss of focus.

When doing a math problem, a student has to do 3 things correctly.

He has to read the problem correctly, meaning he has to know what information the problem is giving him, and what specifically it’s asking him to solve for. Then he has to figure out how to solve it. Finally he has to do a calculation correctly. If he makes a mistake anywhere along the way, he gets the problem wrong.

An unskilled tutor will simply say that careless errors come from rushing and the solution is to slow down. Or he’ll say that nothing can be done about them.

A skilled tutor knows that the way to eliminate careless errors is for the student to take a few seconds after reading the problem and ask himself, “Did I read this correctly?”  Then after finishing the problem and before moving on to the next one, take a few seconds and ask, “Did I calculate this correctly?”

When mastered, that’s a silver bullet.

A skilled tutor knows that “careless” errors happen when a student loses focus. He might not describe the steps to correct them exactly as I have here, but should know they’re correctable and have a plan to do it.

7) What’s the key for a student who wants to improve his score in Critical Reading?

Reading more and studying vocabulary are two important steps a student can take to get a better score on this section of the SAT, but if a tutor gives you this answer, you have to follow up, because it passes all the responsibility to the student.

There are two other keys to improvement that a tutor should know.

A skilled tutor knows that the most important thing to focus on in the reading passages is the main idea of the passage. When a student who’s a pretty good reader has trouble with this section, it’s often because he got stuck on the details and missed the main point.

A skilled tutor also knows that students who do really well on this section use the process of elimination to eliminate the answers that are clearly wrong, then pick the best remaining answer.  Unlike in math, where the right answer is clearly right, in the Critical Reading section a student has to look for the best possible answer among the choices given.

Give the tutor extra credit if he tells you that if a student is still unsure of the answer after eliminating those that are clearly wrong, he should pick the one that most closely reflects the main idea of the passage.

The Critical Reading section is the hardest one to improve on. If a tutor doesn’t give you one of these answers, he won’t be able to help your child on this section

How do you accurately gauge a student’s strengths and weaknesses? How do you gauge her potential score?

A skilled tutor will interactively go through official College Board SAT material with a student and carefully watch how she works. When she struggles, he’ll ask her what she’s thinking and listen carefully to her response. He’ll offer suggestions and see how she responds. He’ll encourage her to ask questions of her own.  He’ll be patient and watch how she responds to instruction.

A skilled tutor eliminates the pressure of time and creates a relaxed atmosphere. He knows that going slow is the key to building a student’s confidence. It shows both the tutor and his student what the student really knows and what she doesn’t, what her real level is.

It’s often the case that someone who thinks she’s bad at math, for example, rushes the questions because she’s nervous or insecure. She’ll get more questions wrong this way, of course, and reinforce her belief that she’s bad at it. The same is true for someone who thinks she’s bad at reading.

In order to know a student’s true potential, the tutor has to create the conditions for it to come out.

A skilled tutor knows that every student is different. When a tutor works with a student this way, it takes no more than a few hours to see what her real issues are, identify her strengths and weaknesses, and formulate a plan to help her improve based who she is as an individual.

A tutor who works this way can not only assess his student’s potential score, he can also give her a taste of reaching it, and show her what she needs to get there.  

If a tutor tells you the way to do it is with a diagnostic test, walk away. If the he tells you that he plans to give a diagnostic test that’s produced by a test prep company rather an official College Board SAT, run.

The results of a diagnostic test can only show what questions a student got wrong, not why, and it can’t show a student her potential, only her limitations.

A tutor who’s focused on limitations can’t get the most out of his students.

9) What material should you practice with, official College Board SAT material, or proprietary material designed by a test prep company?

A skilled tutor will only use official College Board material. A student has to know exactly what’s going to be on the test. Pattern recognition is extremely important. The only way to do that is to use official material.

It’s fine to use material produced by a third party to remediate a lack of knowledge. If a student is weak in algebra or geometry, is sorely lacking in grammar, or needs additional practice in reading comprehension, a skilled tutor might use additional material to teach and practice the concepts.

However, if a tutor doesn’t use the College Board’s own material for the bulk of his work with your son or daughter, look for a different tutor.    

Final thoughts

Here’s what happens when a student takes his SAT score to the next level. He learns that he can do things he didn’t know he could do before. He sees the improvement in his homework and on his practice tests. He believes that his efforts are paying off and expects to do well. His confidence and self image as a student and a test taker grows, which motivates him to practice even harder. The process builds on itself.

A skilled tutor knows how it works. He knows it’s all about helping his students have an inner shift, the right frame of mind, and a positive attitude. Then the material covered on the test, the problem solving skills, and even the level of focus he needs to do really well become pretty easy to learn.

Use these questions as a guide. They’ll help you find the right tutor for you. When it comes to getting the highest SAT score possible, that makes all the difference.

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by avlxyz

Sat Tutor Nyc Can Easily Help you Crack the Exams

SAT is standardized tests which are conducted to select students in college and universities in America. For both parents and students, the time before the SAT exams are crucial and they take all efforts to ensure that the entire process is easy. One needs to have good SAT scores if they wish to be freshman in any college or university. Better the SAT score is, better are the prospects of the student to gain entry to a reputed college or university. In other words, your SAT scores will determine if you can continue your further studies in a good institute or not. One means through which the process can become easy and manageable is to seek private SAT tutor NYC.

SAT tutor know what needs to be done if students want to clear the exams successfully with high scores. There are many programs on offer which parents can opt for their children. However, it has been seen that the best results yield only when one seeks the guide of a private SAT tutor to crack the SAT exams. Being successful is very important these days and having a good education surely helps in this regard. And who would not like to study in the most reputed educational institutes in the country. The idea behind hiring private tutors is to ensure that your child is fully equipped to answer any question or questions with ease. Everyone dreams of high SAT scores and entering to the college or university of their dreams.

SAT, also known as Scholastic Aptitude Test, is one thing which is uppermost in the minds of all students who have just passed out from high school or are in the final year of high school. Preparations for SAT needs to be made well in advance so that once you pass out from high school, you are in a position to crack the exams without too much of hassle. You need not dread the tests whether you are the parent of a student or you are a student yourself. Every student has certain abilities and what the private tutor does is fine tunes those skills or helps the student in understanding newer things in a better way. After all it is all about being confident enough to take on any test.

Private SAT tutors have different preparatory methods in place and can use that to help the students in taking the exams. Depending on the needs of the students, private tutors can also come up with a method that will suit the shortcomings of the students. Private tutors put the students in an actual test situation is of great help. This helps the students in preparing according to the way the test is actually conducted; they will not be caught off guard about any aspect related to the SAT tests. All you need to make sure is to hire a good SAT tutor for your child. After all, the future of your child depends on this and surely you would not like to take any chances with this. Make all the arrangements that you can to ensure that your child does wall in the SAT exams.

by teacherhax

Startling Confession By a College Planner - SAT Tutor Scams and Rip-offs

Earlier this month I traveled to New York because I’m opening a branch office there.  I had occasion to speak to two successful SAT tutors/instructors about a variety of subjects related to the SAT, the College Board (who administers the SAT) and parents.  I thought I’d share some of that info in this article.

First, if you or your child is a Junior or going to be a Junior and not taking at least at online SAT course, you’re behind the eight ball.  Here’s why.

Assuming you live in an affluent or upper-middle class area, your SAT (and ACT) scores are graded differently than if you lived in a less desirable neighborhood.  How?

Because college admissions officers will assume that you’ve prepared for the test because you’re likely to have enrolled in an SAT prep course – like Kaplan or Princeton Review -  or hired a tutor. Even if you haven’t!

In other words, kids from less affluent areas who don’t score as highly may have their scores “grossed up” to be on par with students likely to have taken SAT preparation classes.

So an inner city student who cracks 1100 could be as impressive as a high schooler from Long Island with a 1400.

Now, say what you will about the SAT and other standardized tests – the fact remains that they are critically important to admissions officers – even though they’re flawed.

The next thing I learned is how much money parents in affluent areas will devote to college prep. Granted, Long Island is not exactly Boise, but it is similar to pockets of Miami, Boca Raton, Newton, Mass. (my hometown), the North side of Chicago, parts of L.A. and other affluent areas around the country.

So I’m sure there are thousands of families shelling out ,000-,000 just on SAT prep!  One private tutoring company charges close to ,000 to sign up, then 0-plus each session. And the sessions are generally weekly – so it’s easy to drop 0 per month for several months!

Do they get value for that kind of money?

Of course the answer is “it depends.”

I believe that the tutors that College Pete and I recommend are all top-quality, results-driven educators.

But the other half of the equation is that no tutor can get blood from a stone – if the student doesn’t follow the plan, it doesn’t matter how much Mommy or Daddy spent on test prep.

Which brings me to my third point – its seems that the kids whose parents were shelling out the upper end of the spectrum in tutoring fees tended to be highly motivated.  In other words, they respected the investment their parents made and were forced to be accountable by their instructors.

So that bolsters the argument that you ‘get what you pay for.’

If you’re looking to hire an SAT tutor, here are a few questions you should ask, especially if they charge a high fee.

What is your philosophy?  Meaning, are you the same as all the other options, like Sylvan, Kaplan or Princeton Review or do you do things differently?
What characteristics do your most successful students share?  In other words, what are you looking for in a potential student?
Who does the instructing?  How is he or she trained or qualified?
Why would a student be unhappy with his or her results after you work with him/her?  Give examples of students or parents who were not pleased with your services and cite reasons why.
Do you offer any type of guarantee? Why or why not?

Then, go with your gut feel.  If you received reasonable answers to the above questions, use your instincts to make a decision.  Then get your little student crackin’!

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SAT Tutor New York : How To Choose The Best One!

Right from the early high school time, the student needs to be very serious about his career and his ambitions. Who does not want to study from a reputed foreign university offering maximum exposure and significant education? Well, everyone does! But at the same time, the competition is growing very tough. There are millions of students and thus, one definitely has to give one’s very best. Nothing helps better than SAT because not only it makes you taste the exact definition of success but also lets you have that needed guidance to mould your further future is such an impressive manner, that it cannot be counted as before.

But the course is so vast and the syllabus so much, that just purchasing the highly publicised SAT books won’t make a big difference. With SAT, being in one of the most reputed and famous college or university of USA is not a hard task. But then, to give one’s very best, you need the SAT tutor New York. Having a tutor, in many ways is better and best for scoring well in the SAT papers. This aptitude test cannot be just understood by practising questions but also by knowing the very fundamental and concepts of the paper asked. In such grasping of the concepts, the tutor plays a very important role. The tutor makes it sure that the student understands the very basics and he gives personal attention to the student. Thus, in the longer run, the student is able to go to the tutor with every doubt clearance and solving of any problem.

The SAT tutor New York is also important because the tutor himself has years of expertise and experience in the field. Moreover, it’s only with the help of the tutor that the student can know where the mistakes are and how to correct them in the needed manner. The best shot can be given by the student only when there is a guidance and motivating factor. At the same time, the tutor also gives study materials and sample papers to the students so that they can do the best they can. Apart from this, the tutor also aids in the polishing of the potential of the child and makes him know his respective failures. Only a good teacher can find out faults and weaknesses of his student and can rectify them without letting kid feel humiliated.

Moreover, the SAT exam includes 5 different sections and with the aid of the tutor, the student can easily excel in these sections. There are several tutors in New York thus it is better to choose the right one. Rather than just going for the publicity and the promotion of the tutor, one should go for the credibility which the tutor has. The SAT tutor New York is the best person who can highlight you your greatest features and make you what you exactly want to be in life. Thus, go for the best guide in the city and make the future. And also make sure that your SAT tutor has himself cracked the SAT papers.

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I just hate it so much. My tutor isn’t helping me the littlest bit, we have TONS of homework from it and do next to nothing in our sessions. I dread them every week and they make me want to cry all weekend knowing that i have them on sunday nights. My tutor can’t physically laugh either, which is the creepiest thing ever. Its not that he’s just very focused on work its that he cannot laugh. He’s like some kind of SAT robot. Anyway, I just want to quit and i just feel like it could NEVER be worth the pain to get great scores. I’m going to music schools which only ask for the SAT scores if you want scholarships. They dont even matter.

Hi. I am a Sophmore high school student. I took psat and got 35%, 125.
In other words, I failed the test.

I prepared my test my memorizing some SAT words, and by tutoring with a person online. I tutored with a proffessional person, who chrages 40 dollars, but Im not improving. I learned a lot, but Im not improving.

Can you guys recommend me a new SAT online tutor, a site that you guys think can improve me??

My Weakness:
-Vocabs, dont know a single.
-Math, I failed, Im good at school math, but not SAT
-Writing is still terrible, But i know the rules/strategies for writing

Thanks!

I know the math section is out of 800 but my tutor told me to omit the last 2 questions of each math section. So I was wondering, what is the highest grade I can get on the math section if I use this strategy?

I just would like to know so I can see if I need to get a tutor or not! Thank you to anyone who helps!

My fiance took the asvab and scored a 32 when he needed a 50 to enlist. We are trying to look for a tutor but have had no luck. I was wondering if a sat prep class teaches similar stuff to the problems on the ASVAB. He needs help on math and english parts of the test. And the asvab study books are not what we are looking for.

Hey my two sisters had an SAT tutor and now I have them. They are a couple who teaches SAT, but I feel like I am not being prepared! Even though it is one on one, i feel very uncomftorable with them, and I am afraid to ask questions. When I do, I feel like I don’t get a clear response. I really want to take a prep class somewhere else or get a different tutor, but I am afraid my parents wont let me because my two sisters got into good colleges and they had this tutor. What should I do??

My friend stats:

UCLA-3.5
LSAT-175

Catholic school Math teacher (2 years)
SAT prep tutor for inner city children
Red Cross volunteer
A lot of community services at Uganda

Language- Swahili and English

Major-philosophy
Minor-math

She is from Uganda but lived in Sudan for a while until she was 10 then she came to America with her family.

What are her chances for her dream coming true to get into any of those law schools?

if i dont have enough money to afford a tutor, what are some alternatives to studying and still scoring well?

Ok. I am a freshman and I’m taking Biology. I want to do it by myself (with no tutor or any extra help) because I don’t want to become dependent on anyone. I want to start studying early, but I am sort of a procrastinator. So, I think I’m going to start studying soon.

Do you still think I have enough time to study and get a 750+, considering I am a freshman?

I’m trying to find good test prep for both the ACT and SAT. I have heard that Huntington and Sylvan have good programs but I do not know what the cost is, Could someone please tell me around how much it costs to do these programs and in your opinion which program is better.
I have a hard time learning from just books so I really need tutor of sorts. I already have a good score I just want a better one. I have a 28 and want a 31 at least

I need help prepare for SAT. Can you guys give me a link, for online tutor for SAT?
I want a paid online tutor but a really good one.

Please recommend me a good SAT online tutor. I need someone who has full preparation and like a really good tutor. I dont care how much they charge as long as their really good at preparing students for SAT. Thanks!!!

Here’s my situation: I’m 22 and graduated from a reputable college a few months ago. Now I’m living at home and in the process of applying to professional school. I regret not making many friends in college, because now I’m stuck at home by myself, sad and lonely. I found a job as an SAT tutor that pays /hr, which is great, but I won’t have the chance to meet new people or make new friends, aside from the high school students who I will be tutoring alone in their homes. So, I’m thinking of getting another job in addition to the SAT job where I can meet more people my age. Where should I work? Starbucks? My concern is I have a degree and shouldn’t settle for minimum wage. Or maybe I should for the purpose of meeting people? Or maybe at a restaurant where I can earn tips? Any suggestions? I live in San Jose, California. Thanks I majored in Psychology and I’m applying to medical school.

I got a 1900 total and an 11 on the essay. I’m signed up to take them again in October.

Math: 670
Reading:590
Writing:640

What can you suggest to get the reading in particular up? Vocab flashcards?

I already have had a tutor and a class, so I can’t pay for another. I have books as well.

Thanks!

I took the SATs, and I got 360 in critical reading, 480 in math, and 520 in writing. Should I get a tutor? I heard it helps a lot. I want to get into a top university, and I am going to be a high school freshie next year. How much studying should I do as of now?

I need help on the SAT. I am a smart student, but the SAT doesn’t seem to be my cup of tea. The sections that I struggle in are critical reading and writing. So, obviously, I am a math guy. Recent scores were 500 CR, 530 RE, 670 M. There is a big gap between the CR/WR and the M section scores. Any advice to how I can prepare overall in all sections to level out my scores? What are the best books to prepare? Should I consider a SAT tutor? Any suggestions are welcome.

My SAT tutor has a rule that when a probability problem involves "AND" you multiply, and when a probability problem involves "OR" you add. I wasn’t there for that class but I have the answers to the problems. I just don’t know how to get them. If you answer please show all steps of how you got the answer using the method my tutor uses.

Thanks!

Norma tosses 5 Mounds, 7 Almond Joys, and 4 Snickers into a bag.

1. What is the probability that Seymour will grab three Snickers and 1 mounds?

2. If he hates Snickers and will discard any Snickers he gets, but he will eat anything else, what’s the probability that the first bar he both grabs and eats will be a Mounds?

What about if you do these with or?

Thanks!
Actually Murf the Surf, I think you did something wrong there. The answers to these questions are:

1. 1/364
2. 5/12

Any other ideas on how to do this?

Hai, Iam non native American currently a freshman and plan to retake SAT I.
When I do an SAT questions, passages on critical reading sometimes makes me sweat and dizzy. What should I do about this?
Is there any good novel that can help somehow?

About the grammar, it does really trappy…it looks like correct sentence but I believe there’s something wrong with it…but I dont know which one I should choose! Oh boy…Is there any nice free website or somekind to boost my score?

Does apply for tutor help? In my city I cant find any SAT tutor and If i want to, I have to go to abroad and it cost quite expensive, would u guys recomend this?

Please any suggestions would be nice.

Thanks in advance

I know the SAT isn’t for a while, but I wanted to get a head start on prepping for the exam, especially the reading and writing sections. If anyone wants to be my tutor or has good questions that I could practice with, let me know! Thanks!
I know there are a TON of books on the SAT; I was mainly looking for electronic resources that someone might have (practice questions, practice exams, etc…)

My daughter just took the SAT and got an overall score of 1840 - 680 for reading, 650 for writing, an 11 out of 12 on her essay, and a dismal 510 in math. Obviously, she’s not going to be studying anything math-related in college! She has a 3.5 GPA and is in the upper 1/3 of her class of about 600 kids. Knowing that she’ll be going into an English-related field, how will colleges look at her SAT scores? And aside from hiring a SAT-tutor (is that even worthwhile?), how can we help her get these scores up to a more respectable number? She did similarly well on the ACT - composite score of 26, with excellent results in the English sections, and not-so-great results in math. She’s interested in attending Hillsdale College, Carleton College, Colby College or perhaps Middlebury. Thanks!