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SAT Coaching-We Help You to Beat the SAT

If you want to get into university in the United States, you will most likely have to take an entrance exam. The most popular of these is the SAT.

On the surface, the SAT is a test of English language and Mathematical ability. When you go deeper, however, you find that the SAT is a test of certain ways of thinking. The test is also entirely multiple choice, and hence can be coached. There are many strategies for each part of the test that can help improve your score, and we can teach them to you.

The International Test Preparation Center does not teach simple tricks to help you get by. We teach real strategies that can be applied to a variety of similar tests as well as cognitive skills that can be applied to your future schooling.

Don't let the test makers decide where you should go to school. Take control and beat the test. The International Test Preparation Center can help you do that, and make your dream come true.

SAT Information

One of the first questions on most students' minds is, what exactly is the SAT? The SAT is supposed to be a set of multiple choice exams that test English Language and Mathematical reasoning ability. In fact, the SAT tests Mathematical skills that you probably learned in Junior high, and some English language vocabulary and usage.

What the SAT really tests is the ability to pick out the tricks and traps set by writers of the SAT. It is an endurance and speed test, as you have only a limited amount of time to answer a large number of questions and there are seven sections of questions you will have to write.

The SAT is broken down into three math sections, three english (or verbal) sections and one experimental section that could be math or verbal. The experimental section is not counted as part of your score. It is usually much more difficult than the other sections simply because it contains questions that have never been tested for difficulty before. If you find a section particularly difficult, don't panic. It's probably the experimental one. Just forget about it when it's done and move on. That's generally good advice for any other section, too.

The math sections consist of three types of questions. The first is problem solving. For these you will be given a question that you will have to answer. The questions are generally based on topics in arithmetic, algebra and geometry. Some will be basic math, some will be word problems and some will be tricky questions. The second type of questions are called Grid Ins. In these you don't get a selection of answers. You have to find the answer and fill it in on the answer sheet. These questions use the same topics as the problems solving questions. The third type of question is the quantitative comparison. You are given two values and some information. Your task is to determine which of the two values is greater. Each of these three question types requires a different sort of strategy to solve quickly and efficiently, but they can all be solved with math from around grade 9.

The Verbal sections consist of three types of questions as well, analogies, reading comprehension and sentence completion. These are all multiple choice. They mainly test vocabulary. If your vocabulary isn't good, start improving it. I would recommend reading a newspaper every day and looking up words you don't know. You can also get some old SAT papers and check the words on them. The SAT reuses some words a lot.

The question types on the verbal SAT sound more complicated than they are. Analogies simply means finding two words in the answer list that have the same sort of conection as the two words at the start of the question. Sentence completion questions give you a sentence with one or two blanks and asks you to pick the word(s) that best fill in the blanks. Reading comprehension questions give you a passage to read and then questions about what you read. Again, the topics tested are not difficult, but some of the vocabulary is. Like the math, however, these questions can also be coached, so you can learn how to do better.

The verbal SAT is mostly a vocabulary test. If you plan to take the SAT, start improving your vocabulary right away. It's easy to do. Get a copy of some old SATs and study them. Look at what words appear often and learn them. Also, start reading lots of things. Read the newspaper every day and look up any words you are unsure of. Read plenty of books between now and test day. If you can't afford reading material, or even if you can, you should check out Writing.Com. You can read most of the material on the site for no cost. You can also keep a window open to an online dictionary for fast look ups.

Since the questions are all multiple choice, the real trick is to pick out the right answer. This is the method most students use. It is often easier, however, to pick out the wrong answers than the right one. If you can eliminate some incorrect choices, then you can dramatically improve your score.

Guessing is always a good option. In generaly, there is a penalty for wrong answers on the SAT. This penalty, however, is only enough that if you guess wildly on every question, your score will average out to zero. If you can eliminate a single wrong answer from a group of five, you will improve your score by guessing from the remaining four. The more answers you can eliminate, the more your score will improve.

The reason the SAT is designed this way is simple. It is easier to grade a multiple choice test than a long answer test. Since the testing company has many tests to grade, they need to do it in the fastest way possible. This is good news for students because multiple choice test taking skills are skills that can be taught. Knowing the strategies and a little of how the test writers think can make all the difference.

Like it or not, the SAT is a fact of life for most students. You will have to take it, so you may was well do your best. Learn the skills today for a better tomorrow.

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SAT Coaching Costs

Individual Coaching: $58.85 per hour, minimum 2 hours

Individual Coaching: $428 for 10 hours

Online Coaching: $48.15 per hour, minimum 2 hours

Online Coaching: $374.50 for 10 hours

Online Coaching: Group

If three or more students wish to do online coaching at the same time and book for 10 hours, the cost is $267.50 per student.