Tag: sat prep
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Fun celebrity grammar examples for the SAT Writing section
While you’re here, be sure to join my SAT email list so I can sent you my Urgent Report on Critical Reading and other exclusive SAT-related content! I happened across a small but charming and fun grammar website that I found while researching my “Misplaced Modifiers” articles (Misplaced Modifiers on the SAT) I’m always on…
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SAT Writing and Grammar: Misplaced Modifier Examples
While you’re here, be sure to sign up for my SAT email list to download the Urgent Report on Critical Reading and get other SAT-related bonuses just for subscribers! Alright, this post is going to provide some practice problems to develop your misplaced-modifier identification skills on the SAT Writing and grammar multiple-choice sections. This post…
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SAT Writing and Grammar: Misplaced Modifiers Part 2
While you’re here, be sure to sign up for my SAT email list to download the Urgent Report on Critical Reading and get other SAT-related bonuses just for subscribers! Alright, let’s investigate misplaced modifiers on the SAT a little further. This is a continuation of SAT Grammar: Misplaced Modifiers, Part 1. Remember that misplaced modifiers are…
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SAT Writing and Grammar: Misplaced Modifiers Part 1
If you need to raise your SAT Writing section score in a hurry, check out the SAT Grammar Crammer – it’s designed to target the most common SAT Writing mistakes and quickly boost your score! It’s been a few days since I provided some real hard-core free SAT prep info, so it’s time to talk about…
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Should I Use “Less” Or “Fewer” On The SAT Writing Section?
For more SAT Writing lessons from a professional SAT prep tutor and perfect-scorer, check out my SAT Grammar prep book. Also be sure to join my email list for free subscriber-only exclusive content! In honor of Jen’s comment where she caught me making a classic SAT grammar mistake in a blog post, I wanted to…
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Top 10 Things to Bring to College
Taking the SAT test before you head off to college or university? Sign up for my free SAT mailing list to stay in touch with a professional, perfect-scoring SAT prep tutor and get subscriber-only exclusive content! Looking for a list of stuff to bring to college? That’s great – I was in your shoes once…
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Where To Find The Best SAT Prep Help
Be sure to sign up for my email list today to download your free Urgent Report on the SAT Critical Reading – you’ll also get access to exclusive subscriber-only content to help you prepare for the SAT test! Once I introduce myself to a new acquaintance and tell them what I do for a living,…
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SAT Blog Update 6.11.2011 PM
If you want exclusive SAT-related content emailed straight to your inbox, be sure to join my free SAT email list while you’re here today! Good evening, everyone! First of all, I want to thank all my SAT Prep Blog RSS subscribers – we’ve just reached the 100-subscriber mark and while I’m still only half-clear on…
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Crazy SAT Stories: Who says the SAT isn’t exciting?
While you are here, I highly recommend joining my SAT email list to download my Urgent Report on SAT Critical Reading and other subscriber-only content! When I was working as an AmeriCorps State* member, teaching college readiness and ACT and SAT prep, I heard a funny story from the previous year’s instructors. Although it amuses me to think about it,…
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SAT Essay Evidence: Nicolaus Copernicus
Looking for more help on the SAT Essay that you can download today? Check out 30 More SAT Essay Examples To Use, as well as my Guidebook To Writing The SAT Essay! Here’s another great historical figure to use for your SAT essay evidence bank! (In case you’re new to my SAT blog, let me…
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Secrets of the Official SAT Study Guide
While you are here today, be sure to sign up for my SAT email list in order to download the FREE Urgent Report on SAT Critical Reading and access other exclusive SAT-related content! Review of The Official SAT Study Guide (pre-March-2016 edition) by the College Board AND: How to best use this book! Update: SAT Format…
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SAT Essay Evidence: Mahatma Gandhi
Looking for more help? Check out 30 More SAT Essay Examples To Use, as well as my Guidebook To Writing The SAT Essay! So I had a great idea! I’m starting a new feature on the blog, which is: the analysis of specific people, places, events, literature, and the like that can be used to…
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What to do the night before the SAT
Thanks for visiting my SAT prep blog! Be sure to join my SAT mailing list while you are here – subscribers get instant access to my Urgent Report on SAT Critical Reading as well as other exclusive content! When preparing for the SAT, students think that they have covered all their bases: Grammar practice? Check.…
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Three pro tips for the SAT Essay
Thanks for visiting! While you’re here today, be sure to claim your Free Urgent Report on SAT Critical Reading by joining my email list! In addition, I’ll send you great subscriber-only bonuses to help with the SAT! Today is June 4th, 2011 – the last SAT test date of the 2010-2011 school year! In honor…
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SAT Calculator Programs: When to use them and where to get them
While you are here today, be sure to sign up for my SAT prep email list to grab your free Urgent Report on Critical Reading, exclusive SAT-related content and other subscriber-only bonuses! Though the SAT Math section is by-and-large designed to not be “calculator math,” there is still at least one specific situation in which…
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“Official” SAT prep tips that you should NOT follow
Are you interested in getting more help from a perfect-scoring independent SAT prep tutor? Join my SAT mailing list and I will sent you a free Urgent Report on Critical Reading, exclusive subscriber content and other great SAT-related bonuses! There’s a lot of advice out there about SAT prep tips, some good, some bad. But the…
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Do You Know When to Use a Calculator on the SAT?
Welcome to my SAT prep blog! Be sure to join the free SAT email list for a free Urgent Report and other exclusive content and bonuses for subscribers. If you want to improve your SAT math score, also make sure to order my perfect-scoring tutor’s textbooks: SAT Math Mastery Level 1 and SAT Math Mastery Level…
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Top 3 SAT Writing Grammar Errors
While you’re here, be sure to join my SAT email list for an Urgent Report on SAT Reading and other exclusive SAT-related bonuses. And, if you want to learn all the SAT Writing tips you never knew, check out my SAT Grammar Crammer prep book! The problem with the SAT grammar section, for most students, is that…
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Introduction to the SAT Writing Multiple-Choice Section
Want to improve your SAT Writing score? Check out this SAT Writing prep book! And, be sure to join my SAT email list while you are here! The addition of a grammar test to the SAT is a relatively recent development that the College Board rolled out in 2005. Essentially, they took what was previously a…
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Top 20 Careless Errors in the SAT Math Section
While you’re here, make sure to join my SAT prep email list to download the Urgent Report on SAT Critical Reading and get other great bonuses! In my time spent preparing for and teaching the SAT, I’ve noticed some common careless errors in the Math section that prevent students from achieving their top SAT scores. If…
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A Classic SAT Sequence Math Question You Can Learn From
In need of some good SAT Math practice problems or SAT prep books? Check out my SAT Math Fundamentals and Advanced SAT Math books, as well as the Power 800 SAT Math Video Course, for more tips and practice! Question: What is the sum of all the integers, inclusive, from 1 to 100? A) 942…
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Best SAT Vocabulary Flashcards: Princeton Review’s 500 Essential SAT Vocabulary Words
If this article is relevant to your SAT prep goals, be sure to sign up for my SAT prep mailing list to download your FREE Time-Sensitive Urgent Report on the Critical Reading section! If you’re serious about improving your SAT score, you have to find some way to learn the most common SAT vocabulary. Vocab study…
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SAT vs. ACT: A Comparison by a Professional Tutor
To get more SAT prep information sent straight to your inbox, be sure to sign up for the mailing list! We will immediately send you my free Urgent Report on Critical Reading as well as other exclusive content and SAT-related benefits! What’s the difference between the SAT test and the ACT? How are they similar? The…
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Best Strategies For Long SAT Critical Reading Passages
Be sure to download your free Urgent Report on Critical Reading when you join my mailing list today! Today I want to explain my method for beating the long reading SAT Passages and the Reading Comprehension section and getting a perfect score on the Critical Reading section of the SAT. This is the very method…
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How to get a perfect score on the SAT
What can you do with a perfect SAT score? Win scholarship money, get into better colleges, and build your self-esteem and confidence. Be sure to join my email list for free SAT-related bonuses! My combined SAT score was a 2390 as a high school senior. 10 points short of a perfect score… an 800 in Verbal,…
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Five Tips for a Top SAT Score
Welcome! Be sure to join the SAT mailing list and visit my bookstore while you are here today! Hope you’re ready to learn ;) I got a perfect score on the SAT, and I teach SAT prep lessons for a living, so I’d like to think my SAT advice is worth something – and, since…
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Why you simply must study an SAT Vocabulary word list
Join my FREE SAT prep mailing list for more perfect-score tips and tricks! And if you’re serious about building a strong SAT vocabulary, make sure to check out the books listed at the end of this post. Building a strong SAT Vocabulary is absolutely crucial for an elite score on the SAT exam, but students at…
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SAT Math Vocabulary: What You Need To Know
For more fundamental SAT Math practice, check out my math workbooks: SAT Math Level 1 and SAT Math Level 2! “SAT Math… Vocabulary? Is that a typo?” We tend to associate SAT vocab-building with the Critical Reading section, but even SAT Math Vocabulary is important. For example, are you…