7-Steps to a 350 Point SAT Score Increase
Take a look at the score gains in the screenshot below.
I received this text message from one of my students:
Have You Reached Your Score Goal?
This student was extremely motivated and methodical. We spent about 1 – 1.5 hours per week together, going over her tests. Most of the heavy lifting was done on her own.
7-Steps to a 350 Point SAT Score Increase:
1 – Establish a Starting Point: She began the process with a lot of test anxiety, which makes her score gain all the more remarkable. She not only had the standard challenges everyone else has, but she also had to address the anxiety issue. Anxiety is terrible for an SAT score.
The goal for the December SAT was to survive!
2 – Study Aids: She took a brief hiatus after the December SAT, then started the Critical Reading Intensive by late December.
Critical Reading Intensive – 28 Critical Reading Lessons
The New Math SAT Game Plan by Philip Keller
In January, she studied math, using The New Math SAT Game Plan, and took a few sections out of the College Board’s Blue Book.
3 – Practice SATs: By early February, she was ready to start taking full, timed practice SATs. We made a schedule — one full SAT every weekend.
4 – Test Analysis: After she took each practice test, she’d spend 1 day, looking up every single vocabulary word she didn’t know, including those from the reading passages. She studied those words every day, until test day.
5 – Charting Errors: After looking up the vocab, she would chart each of her errors, giving careful consideration to why she made the error, and coming up with new strategies for the next practice test. During the week, between practice tests, she’d spend about one hour per day, sitting with her errors.
6 – Different Methods: Each week, she tried out different “methods” of answering questions on her practice SATs. For example, one week she tried the passage based reading questions without reading the passage first (it didn’t work), another week she tried not guessing/leaving the question blank if she wasn’t sure of the answer (it worked), and another week she tried not leaving any questions blank.
7 – Practice Scores vs. Real Scores: Her practice scores fluctuated by about 50 points per section, from week to week. In the end, her May SAT math and reading scores were in the lower end of her range, and her writing score came in right in the middle.
This is a low cost test prep plan that could work for any highly motivated, methodical student.
Study Materials:
Critical Reading Intensive — $147
Essay Intensive — $147
The New Math SAT Game Plan by Philip Keller — $17.00
The Official SAT Study Guide — $17.50
If tutoring is what you’re looking for, send me an email and let’s talk.
Debbie@PerfectScoreProject.com
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