Now that school is out, many students will take advantage of their extra time to prepare for the SAT. At Ivy Masters, we are stoked to be serving so many students in preparation for the August and September SATs. That said, I would like to present you with some pointers on how to best prepare on your own or, if you are already preparing with us or with another company, how to best supplement what you are already doing.
1)If you are preparing for the tests with a test prep company or preparing on your own, you can build your foundation, practice medium-level questions, or work on advanced concepts in any of 4 different math categories or 3 different reading/writing categories on https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/digital-sat
2) Practice in pencil. Go over and take notes on any questions you have wrong in red—ideally a red erasable pen. This will make it easy for you to distinguish the work you’ve done and what you must study to improve.
3) Once you study what is needed to improve, redo the questions you had wrong without looking at your notes. Anything you have wrong again should be studied further until you can get it correct without looking. Repeat until you can get all the questions correct. Make this cumulative practice. This is easy to do with the linear tests. For the digital tests, find a PDF.
4) Find and complete extra drills that focus on your weakness. Work backwards from the answer choices to any questions you had incorrect. See if you can figure out where you went wrong. Make sure you can get these question correct without looking at your notes.
5) If you are not, and do not plan to prepare with a company, do the tests on the Bluebook App. If you are a low scorer, begin with the PSAT 8/9 (1 linear and 2 digital tests), then the PSAT/NMSQT (1 linear and 2 digital tests) before taking the SAT (10 linear and 10 digital tests). After you complete each digital test, click on the Practice Specific Questions link. The College Board’s question bank algorithm will give you questions like the ones you answered incorrectly when you took the test.
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