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What is your favorite activity?
• Why?• How do you feel?• What do you notice?• What do you think about?
What is the SAT and how hard is it?
• Made by average people (ETS)• Specialize in tricking and complicating tests• Measures ability to take tests, basic
knowledge, working under pressure• 100 other kids in line
Your Goal
• Scored from 200-800• Average is approximately 500• Check on Pacing Chart how many correct
answers you need (raw score)• Resource! www.Collegeboard.com• Scoring 1 point for correct; -1/4 incorrect; 0
points for leaving blank
Basic Tips
• POE• Pencil to Paper• The Guessing Game• Mark your answers
What is the capital of Uzbekistan?
• A. Washington DC• B. Paris• C. Moscow• D. Madrid• E. Tashkent
Advanced Tips
• Order of Questions = Order of Difficulty• Feeling Good vs. Feeling Right• Average Joe• Broken compass; Joe is your partner– All math, and sentence completions
• Be right; not fast
Advanced Tips
• Pace to reach your goal.• Question type * goal = approach• Do not be Joe
What would Joe pick?
• Repeated numbers from question• Easy answers• Hunches• Least and Greatest Answers• “Cannot be determined”
How many math questions?
• Part 1: 20 multiple choice – 25 minutes• Part 2: 8 multiple choice/10 grid in – 25
minutes• Part 3: 16 multiple choice – 20 minutes
19. Dennis walked to school at an average speed of 3 miles an hour and jogged back along the same route at 5 miles an hour. If his total traveling time was 1 hour, what was the total number of miles in the round trip?• A. 3• B. 3 1/8 • C. 3 ¾• D. 4• E. 5
1. Dennis walked to school at an average speed of 3 miles an hour and jogged back along the same route at 5 miles an hour. If his total traveling time was 1 hour, what was the total number of miles in the round trip?
• A. .01• B. .1• C. 3 ¾• D. 1000• E. 10000
In Summary
• Problems start easy and end difficult• All questions are weighted the same, do not
waste time on hard questions if you still have easy ones to answer.
Math Concepts
• Arithmetic (dealing with numbers)• Algebra (dealing with variables)• Geometry (shapes and graphs)• Statistics (charts and data)• Logic and Sequences
What would Joe do?
• Choose the easy answers
• Repeats• Least/greatest• “It cannot be
determined”
Principles to Difficult Questions in the Math Section
• Trust your hunches on easy questions• Double check your hunches on medium
questions• Eliminate the Joe answers on hard questions• Stay disciplined on the hard questions
Hard questions = Hard Answers
Hard questions = Hard answers
Simple Operations = Wrong Answers
Least/Greatest
In summary
• The average Joe gets easy questions right and hard ones wrong
• Eliminate obvious, simple answers to hard questions• Eliminate repeated number answers from question• Questions that ask for least or greatest answer to a
problem, eliminate the least or greatest answer from choices
• Joe is to guide you not to the answer, but away from incorrect answers.