Before 2005, the SAT Reasoning Test contained only the verbal part (now known as Critical Reading) and mathematics - the current Writing section was not there. This is very important because the verbal and mathematical part of the SAT sometimes can remind you of certain intelligence tests.
When you are preparing for the SAT, you will see that SAT almost does not test what you have learned in high school, but sets the problems you need to know to solve at that particular time. Critical Reading sections have probably never seen you, and some math problems will look more like logical and spatial / visual problems. Because of this very many universities, SAT 1 is more important than other tests because it tests your ability to "adapt" to the new situation and problems you have not seen so far. However, the Writing section was introduced in 2005 and the only difference from the other two sections is that this part of the SAT can really learn and understand how to overcome the pitfalls and problems that are found on the SAT.
The main advice for preparing the SAT is:Do as many official training tests as possible. Definitely read the books that explain how to access SAT tests, but you need to practice Practice Testing to feel what it is like to be faced with problems you've never seen. This applies in particular to the Writing section.
There are techniques for each section that will help you achieve an excellent result on SAT, which are:
Critical Reading: Elimination Technique and Independent Response,
Math: Exercise and Elimination Techniques,
Writing: Practice Through Practice Tests.
CRITICAL READING
This section will require you two things: to understand a more advanced vocabulary and to read the text in an analytical way.
To prepare your vocabulary you need to learn new words and learn how to apply them in sentences - if you only learn the meaning of the word, there is a great chance you will forget them. Because the SAT Multiple Choice Test will answer you, which means that the paper is always the right answer to you, you just have to know how to find it. You will do this by using the elimination technique. However, before you use this technique, you must apply a stand-alone response technique.
What does that mean?
This means - when you look at the question, do not look at the answers that were offered because SAT was made to give you a wrong answer. Instead, you can cover your answers by hand and consider the answer you give. If you are filling out sentences (where you need to know the vocabulary), ask yourself what words you put into empty fields and only when you're certain which words should stand in the empty fields, go to eliminating the wrong answers. As soon as you see the words that have the opposite meaning of those words you chose, cross them.
Likewise, when you read the texts in this section, never look at the answers offered until you understand how your answer should look. Some people like to read the full text and only then answer the question, but the technique that is far more advanced is to immediately look at and find the questions that point you to the line number in a certain text - for example, a question can ask you something and point to "Line 43" in Text 1. This is very useful because you know immediately that the answer lies in that part of the text and that you do not have to waste the time you would go into asking for a response if you read the full text and just started asking questions. When you find part of the text that points to the question, cover your answers by hand and ask how your answer looks like this. When you are confident in your answer,
For this section, it is important to remember the process through which you will get the right answer:
When you read the question, do not look into the answers offered. Ask what your answer looks like (this refers to Passage Reading) or which words you would put up to complete the sentence (this refers to the Sentence Completion / Vocabulary).
When you have the idea of how your answer should look, do not ask for a correct answer, rather than look for the wrong answers that you can eliminate! By this way, you will not enter the SAT trap and you will be left with the correct answer. If you are left on two options that look just the same, guess. SAT does not give negative points, so it makes no sense to avoid or leave things empty.
Finally - read the texts in English and do a lot of official exercise tests to apply these techniques and find out what is best for you. It is much better to practice and prepare yourself for official exercise tests than just reading different texts, but you do not know how to apply these techniques on the correct test.
The MATH
Math section is very straightforward, so you will have to do a lot of Practice Tests and practice problems. SAT usually uses a similar type of problem on the Math section, so in this section you will become better exercise - the more you practice, you will understand what kind of problems they most often use and how to correct them correctly.
You will also have to apply the elimination technique here and ask for the first wrong answers. Let's say there is a geometric figure in front of you that SAT seeks to find the surface. If this is a complex geometric figure in which you really don't know how & ways to calculate the surface, look for answers that are obviously wrong - solutions will certainly have some number that is obviously oversized or too small and there will not be any chances of it being correct.
Always be aware that the correct answer is in front of you, but the SAT always makes the pitfalls by placing tempting responses to you who are actually wrong. If you think before you answer, you can eliminate the wrong answers and get the correct answer. Of course, there are always chances that you can not decide between two answers that look just the same - in this case, you have to guess.
For this section it is important to remember:
Practice math, but not the math you are doing in school, but math of SAT. You are doing a lot of official tests issued by the Collegeboard. Always return to the wrong answers and try to understand why they are wrong not to make the same mistake.
By eliminating the process, you can always get closer to the correct answer even when you have no idea how to solve the question - remember, Sat will put tempting pitfalls in front of you, but you will also put the visibly wrong answers.
WRITING
There are a lot of tricks for this section, but they are all based on one fact, that is, people who make SAT tests are never too creative about the Writing section - that is, they always use the same traps and similar examples, which means that your persistent exercise it can easily lead to a perfect result. The writing section consists of two parts: essay and correction of grammatical errors.
Essay - The first fact about the SAT essay is that they are completely different from the essay you are going to write at US Universities. While American universities will ask you to know how to formulate a thought and write a stylized essay, SAT will ask you to write a structured essay in 25 minutes that does not have to be creative. The structure is most important in SAT essays and can increase the result.
To make a good score on the essay, you need to keep track of the following things:
Write your essay on the complete two pages - although this seems like stupid advice, this will definitely help you out. The 2005 research conducted by Dr. Les Perelman showed that the essays that were longer had better points. This makes sense because scouts will spend a full minute of your essay and the essay that looks longer will definitely look smarter. So do not leave blank spaces underneath, write as much as possible.
Use the required structure: introduction, 3 examples and conclusion. Though official books will never tell you, use two examples of literature or any aspect of science, and you can take the third example from your own life. Never take all three examples from your own life - this kind of writing will definitely reduce your points.
For the essay you need to know that your ability to write is not tested here, but how much you are capable of doing what the creators of the SAT tests are asking you to: adapt the structure and write such an essay as they want. This sounds stupid, but makes sense because this will show the universities that you are able to adapt to that format. One interesting thing is that the evaluators will not evaluate the accuracy of your data - Collegeboard never stated in its rules that the essays evaluate the accuracy of the data so even the wrong data in your essay will not be a problem (of course, if it does not seem too fake and unrealistic) .
Remember, in the SAT essay is most important to do what is required of you. The Suhoparan essay that is concrete and follows the structure of the SAT's writing style will get better points than a stylized essay that is abstract and has no structure. Practice writing such an essay within 25 minutes - after a few times you will become so skilled in writing the SAT- sheep essay in a short time.
Correcting Grammatical Errors - This section of the Writing section may seem complicated, but if you do a lot of Practice Tests, you will notice that creators of SAT always use the same tricks - although sentences will look different, the same traps and the same error correction principles will always be used. That is why it is very important to do as many official training tests as possible and to always return to the wrong answers and to understand why they were wrong. In this section, it is most important that you go through your correct answers as you will then learn how to approach each question.
The Writing section was added in 2005 and is therefore much "weaker" in its structure than the other two, but it is a good sign to the universities how much you are capable of learning new things because it is in this section to see if you learned from your mistakes.
LAST COMMENT
SAT may sometimes seem complicated, but it is important to know that this test was made to test your ability to work, not knowledge. To learn how to avoid the traps that this test puts you, you need to learn how to apply these techniques & do lots of Practice Tests. When you are doing the first tests, do not be limited by time, but slowly go through each section to learn how to apply the techniques and to figure out how to answer the questions you answered incorrectly.
If you apply these techniques, the increase in points is guaranteed. Good luck.
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