A single mom studies and takes the SAT so that she can bond with her son. She takes it seven times in the year before her son takes it in order to get a perfect score.
- College Board's Question of the Day.
- Advice: full, timed practice SATs using College Board material only. Take a least 10 practice tests before the actual test.
- Test Success!, B. Bernstein
- Outsmarting the SAT, E. King.
- about motivating a teen, and the kids who never rebelled because that family did projects together. Lots of family activities together and vacations together.
- blog - Kitchen Table Math.
- Hold on to your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers, G. Neufeld and G. Mate.
- Authoritative parents -- warm and strict, who give their children the mental freedom to think whatever they want but not the physical freedom to do whatever they want -- raise great kids.
- attempting to convince her son he was not the only kid on the planet whose mom wanted him to study for the SAT before his junior year.
- Advice II: 1. Get College Board Blue Book (Official SAT Study Guide); 2. Do one full timed test every weekend; 3. Spend rest of the weekend going over the wrong answers.
- perfectscoreproject.com -- more links to practice tests.
- Vocab -- tend to fall into predictable categories -- "unoriginal", "to make better", " to praise". On the test, cross out wrong answers.
- Vocab study -- thecriticalreader.com (Erica Meltzer); word-nerd.com.
- SAT math - like a puzzle. Need to spot shortcuts.
- SAT strategy -- The New Math SAT Game Plan, P. Keller.
- What Can I do to Help My Child with Math When I Don't Know Any Myself?, Dr. Yaqoob.
- Essay -- essay length is the best predictor of score. No waffling. Pick a side.
- Math -- erikthered.com/tutor/
- Pwn the SAT -- blog. SAT full of patterns, esp. Math. Pull in answers, esp the small numbers, variables.
- Test prep must address -- fundamental skills and test strategy.
- SAT math -- test of speed as much as reasoning. Math knowledge must be ingrained.
- Kumon - 20 min. a day. A sealant to stop the gaps. Most of the math on the SAT happens in Levels E to K.
- Critical Reader -- grammar. Correct answers do pop up when you come up with your own answers first. Students need to read closely so as to understand how particular linguistic and stylistic choices shape the impression the author wants to convey. That's what the SAT is asking.
- Deliberate practice -- things you can't do. It's hard.
- Mathematics 6, Enn Nurk and Aksel Telgmaa. Russian 6th grade math. Find an English translation.
- "The development of expertise requires coaches who are capable of giving constructive, even painful feedback." -- Ericcson (original 10,000 hour guy).
- Top drawer test prep - most expensive, too. Advantage Testing. Personal SAT notebooks. Heavy-gauge reinforced loose leaf. For the Math, 3 columns: term, definition, examples.
- SAT requires proficiency. Proficiency takes time.
- Take college tours before junior year of high school.
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