1. Your personal ACT/SAT tutor!
ePrep Intro
Your personal ACT/SAT tutor!

2. What is ePrep? Practice ACT/SAT tests
Online tutorial videos based on what you missed

3. Why we use ePrep: To even the “playing field” for you!
Provides a “baseline” of your strengths & weaknesses on these exams
To study in order to improve when you take the real ACT and SAT

4. How it works: Take the practice exam Enter your answers
Get personalized tutorial videos
Take notes on the videos as you watch

5. Overall expectations:
FOCUS!
Assigned seats
Headphones in
All other distractions away
Thorough notes
Honest ratings

6. TEST TAKING SKILLS -General Strategies -ACT/SAT Specific Strategies

7. Get ready before testing
Get plenty of rest the night before each testing day
You need 8-10 hours of sleep!
Get ready before testing
Eat a good nutritious breakfast the morning of each testing day
-Protein, fruit, water; not Hot Cheetos and candy ;-)
Avoid the morning rush. Set out everything you’ll need the night before. Get to the testing site EARLY!

8. Use your time wisely!
1. Don’t spend too much time on any one question.
2. It is important to answer every question even if you are not sure of the answer.
3. Answer the easiest questions first, but be sure to go back to those questions you skipped.
4. Save time at the end to review your test and make sure you haven't left out any answers.
5. Use all your time! There are no extra points for finishing early.

9. Elimination
If you can’t figure out which answer is correct, try to eliminate (get rid of) the answers that you know are wrong.
Eliminate obviously wrong answer choices
Eliminate choices that are partly correct
Eliminate items that are correct, but don’t answer the question

10. Focus on those before the other answer choices
Opposites!
If there are two possible answers that are opposites, then one of them is likely the correct answer!
The opposite of the correct answer is easiest for the test creator to come up with
Focus on those before the other answer choices

11. Educated Guess
Educated guessing means using everything you know to attempt to answer the question.
A random guess gives you a 25% chance of getting the right answer. An educated guess gives you a much higher chance of answering correctly

12. ABSOLUTE WORDS ALL ALWAYS MUST NONE NEVER EVERY
ANSWERS WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS ARE USUALLY WRONG/FALSE.
ABSOLUTE WORDS
ALL ALWAYS
MUST NONE
NEVER EVERY
ENTIRELY BEST WORST ONLY
EVERYONE

13. ANSWERS WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS ARE USUALLY CORRECT/TRUE
GENERAL WORDS
SOME SOMETIMES GENERALLY
USUALLY
FREQUENTLY PROBABLY
MOST FEW MANY OFTEN SELDOM

14. LOOK FOR CLUES
The context of a word includes all the words and sentences that surround it and the situation in which the word is used.
WHEN THE ANSWER IS NOT CLEAR, LOOK FOR CLUES ( CONTEXT, TENSE, WORD TYPE, GRAMMAR) IN THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER CHOICES

15. Questions with graphs, charts, and tables…
1. Read all the titles, labels, and other given information
Check the units of measurement
Look for a pattern, trend, or comparison in the graph or table

16. When Reading a Passage Remember To:
Reading a story
When Reading a Passage Remember To:
READ THE QUESTIONS FIRST to determine what you are looking for as you read the selection.

17. Don’t misbubble or leave any blank!
If you reach a hard question and can’t make your educated guess, answer anyway!!!
Write a light question mark next to the question you are planning to go back to and move on to the next question.
Return to this question at the end if you have time!

18. To sum it all up…
Remember the strategies! They will help you to feel confident.
Think positively about doing your best!
Take a deep breath to relax.
Answer EVERY question.
Make intelligent educated guesses.
Think about one item at a time.
DO YOUR BEST!

19. What's on the SAT: Reading 52 multiple–choice questions 65 minutes
Passages or pairs of passages (literature, historical documents, social sciences, and natural sciences
Writing & Language
44 multiple–choice questions
35 minutes
Grammar, vocabulary in context, and editing skills
Math
58 multiple–choice questions
a. 20-question No-Calculator section (25 min)
b. 38-question Calculator-allowed section (55 min)
Algebra I and II, geometry, and some trigonometry

20. What’s on the ACT: English 75 multiple–choice questions 45 minutes
Tests grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and rhetorical skills
Math
60 multiple–choice questions
60 minutes
Algebra I and II, geometry, and some trigonometry
Reading
40 multiple–choice questions
35 minutes
Four passages (prose fiction, social studies, humanities, and natural sciences) with 10 questions per passage
Science
Questions on science-based passages presented with graphs, charts, tables and research summaries