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SAT Prep Curriculum: Topics Covered

Our SAT prep students practice and develop these skills with a mix of teaching, personal discovery, real SAT practice questions, and our own SAT prep textbooks.

We emphasize mastery of the fundamental math, grammar, and reading topics as the base level of effective SAT prep tutoring, before moving to more complex problems and lower-priority concerns such as the SAT essay.

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BASIC GRAMMAR TOPICS

  • Subject/Verb Agreement (the most common grammar error!)
  • Verb Tense Agreement
  • Pronoun Clarity (Pronouns can be brutal on the SAT!)
  • Pronoun Agreement
  • Misplaced Modifiers (My personal favorite grammar topic)
  • Logical Coordination and Transitions
  • Parallel Structures
  • Illogical Comparison (one of the absolute sneakiest grammar mistakes you’ll ever make!)
  • Paragraph Structure and Flow

ADVANCED GRAMMAR TOPICS

  • Preposition Use
  • Prepositional Phrases (and how recognizing them can up your score)
  • Adjective and Adverb Usage
  • “I” vs. “Me”
  • Comperative vs. Superlative
  • Which vs. Who
  • Redundancy
  • Passive vs. Active Voice (one of these is almost always wrong on the SAT)

Your student will benefit from an organized, efficient review of all 15 major grammar topics on the SAT!

SAT Practice Methods

We all know that practice is key to success.

Our SAT prep students practice and develop these skills with a mix of teaching, personal discovery, real SAT practice questions, and our own SAT prep textbooks.

We emphasize mastery of the fundamental math, grammar, and reading topics as the base level of effective SAT prep tutoring, before moving to more complex problems and lower-priority concerns such as the SAT essay.

 

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MATH TOPICS

  • SAT-Specific styles of math
  • Using “Unauthorized” methods math teachers hate
  • Math Fundamentals (whenever necessary)
  • Basic Algebraic Operations
  • Basic Geometry: Angles, Triangles, Circles
  • Arcs and Sectors of circles (Lots of students don’t get this!)
  • Math “Vocabulary”
  • Function notation and “nested” functions (commonly misunderstood!)

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With over 65 total topics to discuss, our SAT tutors keep the focus where you need personal attention so you don’t feel stuck.

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MORE MATH TOPICS

  • Perimeter, Area, and Volume
  • Pythagorean Theorum and Pythagorean Triples
  • Advanced Triangle topics
  • Turning Words Into Math Equations
  • Exponent Rules and Algebra
  • When to “guess and check”
  • When to try their answers
  • When to skip and when to guess
  • Coordinate Geometry

EVEN MORE MATH TOPICS

  • Probability
  • Combinations and Permutations
  • Sequences (the classic SAT math problem!)
  • Weird Symbol problems (freaky if you’ve never seen them before!)
  • Mean, Median, Mode
  • Tricky Averages
  • Slopes of lines
  • Polynomials
  • Factoring
  • Absolute Values (most high schoolers find this topic difficult!)
  • Plus many more - about 50 total topics
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VOCABULARY TOPICS

No college-ready student can afford to neglect their vocabulary.

We know where to find the absolutely-best SAT vocab book and it’s provided free at your first lesson.

  • Find out why a strong vocabulary is SO crucial for a good SAT score
  • Just 15 minutes of daily vocab study can change your life - and massively improve your SAT score!
  • Strategies for getting vocab questions right even when you don’t know some of the words

We have a passion for SAT vocabulary and all words and writing!

CRITICAL READING TOPICS

  • Note-taking skills
  • Reading with purpose
  • Time-management strategies
  • Save time when reading dense passages - don’t get bogged down!
  • Learn to avoid common traps in the answer choices (improving this skill is the #1 way to boost your reading score)
  • Gain experience with common types of SAT reading questions
  • Develop your note-taking strategy for long passages
  • Learn to avoid confusion in long 2-passage reading

TEST-TAKING SKILLS

  • Time Management
  • Practice testing
  • Appropriate homework assignments
  • Confidence-building
  • Goal-Setting
  • Realistic but ambitious target scores
  • Dealing with stress
  • Energy management
  • Finding shortcuts
  • Test-prep theory
  • Attention-management techniques

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