For Your Weekly Practice SAT you want to be relatively fresh for each section you take. That means you shouldn’t take it when you’re tired, stressed, etc. Best to leave your practice test alone if you don’t have the energy and time to focus. You want to know how you’ll do on the real SAT, not how you'll perform when you’re overly tired. … [Read more...]

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Your SAT Prep Process will follow these basic steps: Take a practice test; score it with the free app; set a session to meet with me (be sure to use a discount code); bring your answer sheets and TI-84 calculator to the session; set weekly sessions; witness your score increase. First Step of Your SAT Prep Process: Take a REAL … [Read more...]

Free SAT practice tests are essential for SAT prep. Taking a practice SAT at least once weekly is your best preparation. While taking practice tests is essential, it is not enough. After you take your practice SAT, an equally important part of your SAT prep includes reviewing your practice test. You can do this either by yourself as … [Read more...]

Basic SAT Triage SAT Triage, in a nutshell, is a means to improve your score as efficiently as possible by prioritizing questions you encounter on the test. Basically, you first want to answer the questions that are easy or make more sense to you. You will save the more challenging ones by marking them for later, once you’ve completed … [Read more...]

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Scoring Your Practice SAT Test Quickly with the Daily Practice for the SAT App Scoring Your Practice SAT Test is easy. First, though, there are a few things you need to do: Make sure you have a College Board account. You might already have one. You’ll need one anyway in order to register for your SAT and to receive your results. If … [Read more...]

Download Your Test Before Taking Your Practice SAT Test Taking your practice SAT Test involves using a Real Practice Test. These are the real tests provided by the College Board. All other tests are only approximations of the types and difficulty levels of the questions found on a real SAT. You can download your first practice test … [Read more...]

Taking a Practice SAT: the following are instructions for students considering taking the SAT for college admissions. You might be here to determine whether to take the SAT or ACT, establish a baseline SAT score, or work on improving your SAT score. If any of these describe your situation, please read the following instructions. … [Read more...]

Taking a Practice ACT: the following are instructions for students considering taking the ACT for college admissions. You might be here to determine whether to take the ACT or SAT, establish a baseline ACT score, or work on improving your ACT score. If any of these describe your situation, please read the following instructions. … [Read more...]