Few General SAT Insights
Taking the Test:
The SAT is offered six times a year in India, in October, November, December, January, May, and June. The test is typically offered on the first Saturday of the month for the November, December, May, and June administrations. For January, it is the last Saturday of the month. For further details regarding exam dates, please visit http://www.collegeboard.org
Problems faced:
• Students do not realize that SAT has negative marking (1/4 marks).
• Sometimes, too much time is wasted on answering a few questions, especially in Critical Reading, which results in loss of time.
• Language usage in the Critical Reading section is a problem for some.
Overcoming Barriers:
At Roads, we prepare the students in a way, which includes strategic learning, and we provide them with various techniques so they can tackle problems in an effective manner. Furthermore, we make them solve papers and give mock exams, so as to let them understand the importance of time management while giving the exam.
Preparation for SAT English: Critical Reading + Writing + Strategies + Paper Solving
Preparation for SAT Math: Paper Solving + More Paper Solving + Intense Paper Solving + Strategies + Golden Tricks
How much effort should a student actually put in so as to maximize his SAT Scores?
- 70 Hours of dedication and determined study at Roads, is what you need
- 7 Weeks of thorough preparation, which includes a complete training program, vocabulary improvement, paper solving, mock tests and the overall development of skills and competencies.
- At Roads, we manage your time efficiently. 1.5 Hours at Roads and 2 Hours at home will help you ace SAT.
An Insight into Roads SAT Strategy
At Roads we appreciate that the SAT is an aptitude test. Hence we have devised numerous strategies to help our students ace their SAT test. Illustrated below is an example of one such strategy:
A common mistake made by many Indian students approaching the SAT without professional guidance is the lack of a definitive answering strategy. Students have varying aptitude abilities and hence SAT (which itself clusters questions in 3 groups: Easy, Medium and Difficult) test takers should have a clear idea of which questions they are going to attempt (again one should note that SAT has negative marking).
Consider 2 students: one attempts all 24 questions in a section (8 Easy, 8 Medium and 8 Difficult Level) and the other only attempts the Easy and Medium ones. As a general rule of thumb we have seen the following scenario materialize (assuming historical probabilities):
| Student 1 | E | M | D | Student 2 | E | M | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Marks Obtained | 9 | Total Marks Obtained | 16 | ||||
| No. of questions | 8 | 8 | 8 | No. of questions | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Attempted | 8 | 8 | 8 | Attempted | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Correct Answer | 6 | 4 | 2 | Correct Answer | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Incorrect Answer | 2 | 4 | 6 | Incorrect Answer | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marks Obtained | 5.5 | 3 | 0.5 | Marks Obtained | 8 | 8 | 0 |
This is just one such SAT strategy that we engender in our students, which has been highly successful for our students to fulfill their SAT potential.
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