Posted: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 | Filed under: SAT, SAT exam, SAT grading, SAT scoring | author: By Teddy Bergman
What is Score Choice? What is Super Scoring? What’s the difference?
When you are taking the SAT exam many hours go into studying and preparing for the exam. You take mocktests, work on practice problems, and formulate your perfect strategy to beat the test. Then you take the SAT test and, for many people, the work ends here. Don’t be one of these people. You still have a couple strategies you can consider.
One of them is Score Choice. The College Board, the company that creates and administers the SAT, allows you to implement Score Choice if you so choose. Essentially, Score choice allows you to elect which SAT score you can submit to colleges. If you take the SAT multiple times, Score Choice enables you to select your best score and submit that score, and that score alone, to colleges. There are some schools that require you to submit all your test results and your college counselor will know which ones, but Score Choice allows you, whenever possible, to put your best foot forward.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 | Filed under: SAT, SAT exam, SAT grading | author: By Teddy Bergman
If you took the March 2012 SAT, on the morning of Thursday, March 29th you may well have anxiously went online to your College Board account to see your score. For some of you – maybe too many – the scores you saw on the screen may have surprised you…and not in a good way, perhaps. Whatever the case, after sifting through the input of countless students, here’s what we understand as of today, before the online score reports and Student Answer Service data is available:
Students – Virtually every one of them – are seeing expected scores in the Writing section, scores within the lower bound of their mock test median range on Math, but a huge drop (70–100 points) from mock test medians on their Critical Reading.
Experimental Section & Section Sequencing Affected Focus
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Posted: Friday, March 9th, 2012 | Filed under: SAT, SAT exam, SAT grading, SAT scoring | author: By Teddy Bergman
Should I take the SAT again? When do I know if I am done?
The SAT exam is a long and arduous process and one which most people feel can’t end soon enough. After long hours of study, countless mock tests, and the stress of the unknown, retaking the SAT can seem like the absolute last thing you want to do. Once you’ve received your SAT scores you have a choice to make. Am I satisfied with how it went or do I want another crack at the test?
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Posted: Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 | Filed under: SAT, SAT exam, SAT grading, SAT strategy | author: By Teddy Bergman
When should I guess on the SAT Test? Should I always take a shot at an answer even if I’m not sure?
The SAT Test is a long, multi-faceted, and at times, draining exam. There will undoubtedly be times when you are taking the SAT exam that you are unsure how to solve a question or unclear which choice you should select. It is vital to your success on the SAT test that you into the exam with a clear gameplan for these moments – a guessing strategy.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 | Filed under: SAT, SAT exam, SAT prep, SAT strategy | author: By Teddy Bergman
What do I need to know about signing up for the SAT?
You’ve been working with a CATES tutor, doing Math, Reading, and Writing practice sets in between sessions, and taking advantage of the free CATES mock tests. You’re ready to take the SAT. So where do you go to sign up, and what do you need to know?
The SAT is offered at the end of January and in early March, May, June, October, November and December. The test isn’t always offered on the exact same date, each year, but as soon as it is scheduled, in August, you can sign up for it. In other words, you can sign up for the June SAT as early as the summer before you take it. Don’t wait until the last minute. As soon as you know when you’re taking the SAT, sign up for the test.
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