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Welcome. This is a complete, comprehensive course for the Digital SAT, the college admissions test administered and published by Collegeboard, covering all the sections of the test, Reading and Writing and Math. As a comprehensive course, if completed from beginning to end, a student should be fully prepared for the test by the time they finish the last lecture.
Welcome. This is a complete, comprehensive course for the Digital SAT, the college admissions test administered and published by Collegeboard, covering all the sections of the test, Reading and Writing and Math. As a comprehensive course, if completed from beginning to end, a student should be fully prepared for the test by the time they finish the last lecture.
No prior knowledge of the SAT is needed. So, students can jump right in and get started in this course. The course will cover strategies to make the test easier, improve pacing, and deal with difficult questions. Included are techniques for reading the passages, recognizing typically right and typically wrong answers, identifying question types, how to guess intelligently and use POE (Process of Elimination) and understanding the structure and scoring schemes of the different sections. It will also cover subject area concepts like Geometry and Algebra concepts, grammar rules, and vocabulary.
The course uses a variety of resources to help students learn: handouts, quizzes, video lectures, and worksheets. The handouts and worksheets are available as pdf downloads, as well. There is a lot of content in the course, but it's designed so a student can do the sections in any order and work at his or her own pace.
Test your knowledge of the structure of the SAT Reading section
An introduction and preview of the course
A look at the overall structure of the SAT as well as the content.
A look at some general tips and strategies that can be used for any section of the test.
An initial quiz to test your knowledge of the overall structure of and general techniques for success on the SAT.
An introduction to the Reading and Writing section of the SAT
A look at a couple sample Reading questions that would be found in the Reading and Writing section
A look at a couple sample Writing questions that would be found in the Reading and Writing section
A look at what the SAT would call good answers and what they would call bad answers
A look at Extreme answer choices
A look at Reused Language answer choices
A look at Out of Scope answer choices
A look at Wrong Question answer choices
A look at Opposite answer choices
A look at answer choices that Infer too much
A look at answer choices that too General or too Specific
Test your knowledge of Process of Elimination and the types of answer choices in the Reading section of the SAT.
An introduction to the different Reading question types on the SAT
A look at the Vocabulary question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Vocabulary questions
A look at the Function question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Function questions
A look at the Main Idea question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Main Idea questions
A look at the Retrieval question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Retrieval questions
A look at the Dual Text question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Dual Text questions
A look at the Claim question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Claim questions
A look at the Chart question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Chart questions
A look at the Conclusion question type and how to approach it
Working through a couple sample Conclusion questions
Test your knowledge of the question types in the Reading section of the SAT.
A review of the Reading concepts
Tips on how to deal with unfamiliar words on the test and build vocabulary
An introduction to the Grammar involving words.
A look at Pronoun grammar rules, including case, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and consistency
A look at Pronoun grammar rules in several sample sentences
Working through a couple sample Pronouns questions
A look at Subject/Verb Agreement concepts
Working through a couple sample Subject/Verb Agreement questions
A look at what Parallelism is and how it is tested on the SAT
Working through a couple sample Parallelism questions
A look at what is tested and what the SAT is looking for in Comparisons
Working through a couple sample Comparisons questions
A look at how to use Apostrophes to create possessive forms and contractions
Working through a couple sample Apostrophes questions
A look at some of the words that are often misused or misinterpreted on the SAT
Test your knowledge of the Grammar involved with Words.
An introduction to the Grammar involving clauses and phrases.
A look at what Independent Clauses are and how to join them
Working through a couple sample Independent Clauses questions
A look at what Dependent Clauses are and how to join them to Independent Clauses
Working through a couple sample Dependent Clauses questions
A look at what Nonessential and Essential Phrases are and how to punctuate them
Working through a couple sample Noneessential Phrases questions
A look at what Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses are
Working through a couple sample Relative Clauses questions
A look at what Modifiers are and what the SAT is looking for when it tests them
Working through a couple sample Modifiers questions
A look at when and how to use Colons in sentences
Working through a couple sample Colons questions
A look at the rules surrounding Comma placement and Comma usage
Working through a couple sample Commas questions
Test your knowledge of the Grammar involved with Phrases and Clauses
An introduction to Synthesis questions.
A look at the categories of Transitions test on the SAT
A look at Supporting Transitions and Contrasting Transitions
A look at Cause and Effect Transitions and Sequence Transitions
Working through a couple sample Transitions questions
A look at what Rhetorical Synthesis questions are and how to approach them
Working through a couple sample Rhetorical Synthesis questions
A review of the Writing concepts
An introduction to the Math section of the SAT
A look at a sample Multiple Choice Math questions that would be found in the Math section as well as the tools in the test
A look at a sample Free Answer (SPR) Math questions that would be found in the Math section
Test your knowledge of the structure of the SAT Math section.
An introduction to Strategies that can be used for the Math section
An explanation of the Estimation strategy in approaching Math problems
Working through a couple sample Math problems, using the Estimation approach
An explanation of the Back Solving strategy in approaching Math problems
Working through a couple sample Math problems, using the Back Solving approach
An explanation of the Plugging In strategy in approaching Math problems
Working through a couple sample Math problems, using the Plugging In approach
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