1. Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Highest Possible Score!
The New SATs
Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Highest Possible Score!

2. Looking for The Perfect Score
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Don’t let it stress you out!

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Changes to the SAT
The New SAT
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4. Multiple Choice Questions
How to manage time
Pace yourself – take it slow and read each question and possible answers
When you don’t know the right answer
Use the process of elimination - Look for the wrong answers and eliminate them
When you don’t get to an answer
Use the Letter of the Day (LOTD) strategy, only when you run out of time
How to own it
Figure out your “Personal Order of Difficulty” then work the test in way that best fits your strengths

5. Reading Test Reading Test: What to Expect
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6. Reading Test Determining “Your Personal Level of Difficulty”
Look at the types of passages
Look at the topics of the passages
Look at the types of questions
Remember if you do skip a passage to use the “Letter of the Day” strategy

7. Follow these steps: Reading Test Read the blurb
Select and understand a question
Read what you need
Predict the correct answer
Use Process of Elimination

8. Reading Test Be careful when you see the words infer, imply or suggest
Vocabulary-in-Context Questions

9. Reading Test Practice Passage 1: Modeling/Whole Group
Passage 2: Partner Activity
Passage 3: Individual Homework

10. Writing and Language Test
Writing and Language Test: What to Expect
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11. Writing and Language Test
Follow these steps:
Check what is changing in the answer choices
Figure out what the question is testing
Use process of elimination
If you haven’t eliminated three answers, pick the one that is most consistent with the rest of the sentence

12. Writing and Language Test
Punctuation
Period, semicolon, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, long dash, colon
Remember STOP, HALF-STOP and GO punctuation
STOP punctuation can link only complete ideas
HALF-STOP punctuation must be preceded by a complete idea
GO punctuation can link anything except two complete ideas

13. Writing and Language Test
For changing STOP punctuation in the answer choices, use the Vertical Line Test
Four reasons to use a comma
STOP punctuation, GO punctuation, after every item in a list, to set off unnecessary information
On the SAT there are only two reasons to use an apostrophe
possessive nouns and contractions

14. Writing and Language Test
Words (nouns, pronouns and verbs)
Check what is changing in the answer choices
Use process of elimination
Consistency
Precision
Concision
Verb/Noun Consistency

15. Writing and Language Practice
Passage 1: Modeling/Whole Group
Passage 2: Partner Activity
Passage 3: Individual Homework

16. Essay Test Essay Test: What to Expect
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17. Test Day Preparations Take practice tests Build confidence
Time your practice tests
Don’t stay up late the night before the tests
Eat a good breakfast
Arrive early
Bring acceptable identification
Bring # 2 pencils and a calculator
Make sure that your desk is suitable
Make sure test booklet and answer sheet are not flawed
Be sure to darken in all responses and erase any stray marks

18. Don't make excuses...make improvements
Remember…
Don't make excuses...make improvements