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all right today’s class is the beat the test class

and on the youtube page is a link to the booklet

please do take some notes

okay so the um here’s all the legal information you

can read that it’s also in your book the psat

beat the test class was created by dr beasley and dr beasley for a lack of a better

word is a genius when it comes to test prep

the purpose of this class is to help you orientate

help you plan prepare for the next level this is an overview and dr beasley is

going to explain it on his uh all of the secrets on the online videos after the class today

i will be sending out an email with all of the

links to dr b’s these videos and you can watch them really anytime you want this by itself is not the complete

solution psat sat and a ct prep requires effort and commitment

here’s a graph of dr beasley’s charts versus texas

and dr beasley is based out of texas and of course his students are the orange or red lines

and the regular students in texas are the yellow lines there

so matt used dr beasley’s methodology and bumped his a.c.t score by nostalgia five points caitlyn

bumped her s.a.t score by 140 points and ellie bumped her score to achieve

full tuition scholarship it took several attempts some prep study and review

and she did it and so can you so what is your s.a.t or a.c.t score

goal here’s the secret pay attention follow

the instructions and do the work

we’re going to talk about a whole bunch of things we’re going to hit on a few things that you need to think about we’re going to talk a little bit about

background information a few test taking strategies but there is much much more so there’s three primary tests

there’s the psat there’s the act and the sat

and then there’s a couple more tests um the plan the aps

clep there used to be the subjects test but those got cancelled fairly recently

so no more sat subjects tests instead college board is going to focus on ap tests

so we’re going to focus primarily on psat act and sat strategies however

these strategies can be applied to all of these other tests as well

to score high the uh the objective to score high on these tests is and this is going to

sound kind of basic to mark the correct bubble so the objective to uh scoring high

is to mark the correct bubble

scoring high indicates your ability to mark the correct bubble the computer that grades your

answers doesn’t know that you marked the correct bubble because you knew the answer you guessed or you marked the correct answer by

mistake how you mark the correct bubble is not factored into your score the machine

cannot tell how you answered so of course the strategy is to mark the correct bubble

and we’ll talk about some of those strategies as we move forward

let’s talk about what’s on these tests first off um as of uh

january 19th college board sent out an email and basically it said college

board will no longer offer sat subjects tests or the sat essay

so i can hear a collective sigh across the nation oh good i don’t have to write out that

essay on the s.a.t any longer and that is correct they have eliminated that

so on the psat we’ve got a reading test which is about

60 minutes and 47 questions we’ve got our writing there’s there’s um several sub

sections within each of these tests and and the basic subsections

or the basic sections are going to be uh writing language and then math those are the two sections

and then the the sections are broken down into sub sections and these are what the subsections look

like there’s a reading test which is 60 minutes 47 questions there’s a writing language test 35

minutes 44 questions there’s two math sections on the psat

one with a calculator and one without a calculator and the proctor will say

this is the math section without the calculator put your calculators away or this is a

section with the calculator please use your calculators

the sat has a reading section a writing section math with and without

with a calculator and without a calculator so you’ll notice that the sat and the act are i’m sorry the sat and

the p-s-a-t are very similar and that is correct they are very similar

the s-a-t also has a another section which is the

experimental section and we’ll talk about what that is in a few slides

and the act is broken down into these sections there’s a english

section math reading and a science section

and an optional essay so that s.a.t used to have an optional essay

and college board discontinued that and currently the act at this point

is and and the quote is reviewing options for test takers

and has not as of yet announced if they will cancel the writing essay portion of the test i’m

going to guess that they probably will cancel

that essay section at some point in in the near future and because usually

that whatever sat does act follows or whatever act does

sat kind of follows

here are some examples of what the

test booklet looks like and you’ll notice that where it says question number four the

answers are abcde and that is for the sat

and you’ll notice for the act uh question number three it says the

answers are a b c or d and then question number four the answers are e uh f g h and j

so um they kind of have the the numbering system a little bit different on the act whereas the reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

sat the answers are going to always be a b c d a b c d a b c d

so which one should you take i’ve heard all kinds of different rumors athletes

do better on one brainiacs do better on another blah blah blah what i recommend and what dr beasley

recommends is take both and then see which one you do better on and which one

you want to after you’ve taken both tests then compare the scores and

determine which of the two tests you want to focus on because every um

every college will accept either one and which which score should you give

the college of course you should give them your best score

dr b beasley also recommends that you take them often we’ll talk about when and how

often you should take them in a few slides

so when should you start i’ve had students start as early as sixth and seventh grade

take the test every year sixth through eighth grade psat s a t a c t and ninth grade

um take the sat and act twice a year and junior year uh focus on the psat

in october and then take the sat and or act several times your junior and then

senior year take it as needed the goal is to get the score you want

sometime in your junior year so you don’t have to worry about taking it in your senior year okay and i always

like to ask this question if you’re an athlete or a musician how

do you get better and the answer is practice and the end and the strategy is the same

with the sat and act how do you get a better score and that’s practice

by taking the test multiple times so my advice and doctor fees advice is

take both take them early take them often the sat is easier to beat

the act is more content oriented

additional myths are you can only take them once that is not true colleges average your scores not true

you can take them only in your senior year not true um you there is no

there really isn’t any minimum age uh to taking the test

so you really can take them anytime in fact if your parents wanted to they could take a test with you

so some facts about the tests is you can take the sat and act as early as you want and as

often as you want colleges will take your highest score

many colleges will act ask you to retake it to raise your scores

to potentially get some more money so brendan he was being courted by columbia

university and was asked by his college coach to retake the s.a.t

to see if he could bump it bump his score a few points by bumping his scores the overall

average score for the soccer team went up now the coach can say that he has great

athletes and smart athletes so sometimes colleges will ask you to

retake the test to try and bump your score and some colleges will take your best

component score from different tests this is called super score so for example if you took

the test in let’s say august

and you scored really well on the reading section but not so good on the math

and then you retook the test in november and flipped it and did really good on

the math and not so good on the reading they could take the best score from

your the reading the best reading score from one test and the best score from the math from

another test and put those together that’s called super score all the more reason to take the test

multiple times not every college super scores a lot of

colleges do harvard super scores asu does not

why not i don’t know so take the test it’s not a one-shot

deal prepping and testing is iterative

prepare and take the tests get your scores back analyze them work on areas

that need to be improved prep again and retake as necessary and take again and again

and each time you do that you should get better so here’s the let me explain that what this slide reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

means um the first time that you take the test

if you are a junior um or or sophomore or a freshman

and you have not taken a test this will be your first time taking the test what i always encourage is and what dr

beasley encourages is when you sit for the test the first time do not guess on any of the answers

if you don’t know the answer leave it blank and here’s why if you guess

and you get it correct then we don’t know that you need to study that section

so the first time don’t guess leave it blank

after you’ve taken the test about 30 days or so after you take the test you’ll get your

score sheet back and your score sheet is going to be like your coach

and it’s going to state on there these are the questions you got correct and these are the questions that you got

incorrect and um take a look at that and that’s

that score sheet that coach will tell you what areas you need to study and improve

and then you go and you study those sections and then take the test again now the second third or however many

times that you’re taking the test after the first time now we’re going to

go for some some strategic guessing so that we can try and get the highest score that we

can and we’ll talk about some strategic guessing in a few slides

so how do you get good at anything you do it over and over again practice really does make perfect

your score is a product of your knowledge your thinking ability your

test preparation and i do want to emphasize the word test preparation

scores should reflect what you know and think not problems with the test

and occasionally there are problems with the test

a couple genes ago the test book when you when you sit for the

test you’ll get two things you’ll get a test booklet which will have all of the questions on it and then

you’ll get a separate sheet of paper which is the bubble sheet and you mark in the in the answers in the bubble

sheet the proctor when you go into a classroom

there will be a proctor in there that kind of oversees everything and the proctor has his or her own book

and that proctor will say oh this is a math section and this math section

is 35 minutes or 45 minutes or whatever it is so the proctor will see that

well a couple june’s ago what the proctor had on his his book it

said 45 minutes but the um the test booklet said 35

minutes or vice versa so those two didn’t correlate and that so sometimes there’s some weird typos and stuff like that

so not problems with the test what these tests are not is they are not

a measure of your intelligence however intelligent students will do what it takes to score high reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

it’s not a measure of your superior genes printage or ancestry although one parent might take uh credit

if you score high or they might blame the other parent if you score low

that’s kind of a joke there it’s not a measure of your college success because a significant number of high scores drop

out of college and a significant number of low scores graduate on time it’s not a measure of

anything except your ability to take the test what these tests do

is they provide a first impression they level the grades from different schools so we have a variety of

different high schools that are represented in today’s class and at your school

if you’re taking a biology class and at my high school which is a different high school i’m taking a biology class and we both

get a’s hey congratulations great job on your on your grades what the college doesn’t know

is how much work and effort each of each of these students put in to earn

that grade maybe at my high school the teacher was really easy and everyone got an easy a

and maybe at your high school where you earned that a you really earned it and you worked hard colleges

don’t know that so the leveling field is reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

the test scores every student across the united states takes the exact same test

i know many colleges will award scores scholarships based on the scores yeah

it’s not an accurate gauge but it’s used anyway so it’s beneficial to score high

even if your grades aren’t all that great now i’m not giving you permission to do poorly on your grades

your job as a high school student is to graduate with the highest grades the highest gpa

you can and get the best sat or act score that you can

the single biggest complaint that i have heard from students is the running out of time

these are timed tests with multiple sections if you understand and know what is

required then you can simply skim the instructions which will save you more

time for questions

let’s talk about the seven basic principles for answering questions and getting the best scores reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

so write these down please principle number one is the answers are given the answers are

right there it’s a b c or d the only exception to that would be grid

n questions and we’ll i’ll show you an example of a grid in in uh in a few slides

so the um all the correct answers are there your job is to find them

your job is to look for the college board answer so principle number one the answers are

given principle number two is use the process of elimination

look for the wrong answers and eliminate them so i want you to stop looking for the

right answers instead i want you to look for the wrong

answers and then cross them out and what’s left

must be the right answer always use poe the process of elimination the reason is because

these people who write these questions for the sat and the act they stay up late at night

trying to figure out ways to trick us and they’ll put in an answer that at

first glance may appear to be the right answer but is actually a deception and is the

wrong answer so look for the wrong answers cross them out what’s left must be the

right answer p-o-e principle number two process of elimination

principle number three is calculated guessing so again the first time that you take

the test we’re not going to guess we’re going to leave the answers blank

the second third fourth however many times after that that you’re taking the test now we’re

going to use calculated guessing so if you cannot eliminate all the wrong answers guess

so if you’re looking at it you go oh i think it might be a a is definitely wrong cross that one

off b yeah it might be that one c it might be that one

d no d is completely wrong once you have gone through p o e uh the process

of elimination now you’ve got to and in this example you’ve got two questions now you’ve got a 50

chance 50 50 of getting the right answer so use poe first and then guess

do this after you’ve tried to eliminate the wrong answers always use poe first random picking is not calculated

guessing what you know can help you with what you don’t know the test creators don’t know if you

picked the right answer because you know it you marked it by mistake or you guessed the second time that you are taking

or second third fourth however many times that you’re taking the test again

now use calculated guessing don’t leave any blanks

okay

continue with calculated guessing skipping questions so remember my uh what students said is

the biggest complaint is they run out of time if you are struggling with a particular

question circle the whole question and come back to it later so if you’re still trying to understand

the question after 15 to 20 seconds circle it skip it and move on however if

you kind of understand the question and it might take you another 15 or 20 seconds to answer it in that case keep working on it

uh circle your skipped questions go through the rest of that section

answer all of those sections and then once you’ve answered all of those questions that you do know reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

then go back to the ones that you are struggling with at the end and answer those

that will give you more time than trying to waste some time on a

question that you don’t know the answer to so that’s calculated guessing principle

number four is use your test book

the booklet is not turned in you can mark in a doodle sketch write

notes draw pictures work your math problems use it as scratch sheets cross off wrong answers please do that

circle the correct answers and then transfer correct answers from the booklet to the answer sheet

so what dr beasley says is in your test booklet as you’re looking

at the answers a b c d etc

um and here’s an example of that the first president of the united states was

a king george nope that’s wrong cross it out in your booklet

the first president of the united states was b george bush nope crossed that out uh and then etc

etc the first president united states was e george washington yep that’s correct

so you would circle it okay once you’ve circled all of the correct

answers in a section reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

and transfer the answers to the bubble sheet so circle the correct letter or write

the letter in the margin and then answer all of the

the questions in that section and then once you’ve answered all the

questions in the section then go to your bubble sheet and marking them in if you go back and forth question number

one oh the answer is a you circle it and then you go to the bubble sheet and you mark in a

and then you go back to your booklet question number two you read through that one oh i think the answer is b and

and circle b and then you go back to the bubble sheet when you go back and forth back and forth like that you

waste a lot of time remember what what the biggest complaint students had

was i ran out of time well one way to give yourself some more

time is to answer all of the questions

in a section circling all the correct the correct questions crossing out all

the incorrect questions and then once you’ve answered all those questions then go to the bubble sheet

and go oh question number one the answer is a question number two the answer is b question number three the answer is a et

cetera this will save you seven to ten minutes

that can be used answering those harder questions that you might need to go back to instead of transferring back and forth

back and forth so this is a way to pace yourself

so learn how to pace yourself remember to go um and then remember to go back and

answer the skipped questions and bring a watch we’ll talk about why to bring a watch and all that

in a few slides reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

principle number five is there are types of wrong answers and dr beasley calls them the bonehead

the landmine the doofus and the sucker answers so the bonehead answers are failing to

think about your answer failing to follow the techniques and strategies students rushing through picking an

answer that looks correct yet is obviously wrong don’t rush

think about your answers follow the techniques and the strategies the person who

finishes first with the most wrong answers does not win

so take a half a second to think about your answers landmine answers these are

answers that are put in to the test that at first glance appear to be

correct we’re actually wrong remember what i said earlier that they stay up late at night trying to figure out ways to trick us

so they’ll do stuff like that so if you rush you’ll step on a land mine and get the wrong answer if it if the

answer seems too easy or too obvious you can almost always eliminate it and with landmines

always use poe the process of elimination look for the wrong answers cross them

out what’s left must be the right answer

doofus answers dr beasley calls them doofus answers these are using ignorance to determine reach school, safety school and fit school, good fit college.

your choice i picked it because of whatever i didn’t know what it means

so it must be right or it looked difficult so i picked that one you

incorrectly picked what you don’t know don’t let your ignorance what you don’t know determine your choice

the opposite is true you pick the answer because it looks familiar to you

again those are the uh these are um reasons why to use poe the process of

elimination number uh principle number five

continuing is sucker answers these answers that may be mathematically

correct but the answer is um but not the correct answer to the real question

so in my example here it says how many sixteenths is six thirty second minus one eighth

so logic says to convert six thirty seconds to three sixteenth and convert one eighth to two sixteenth and subtract

it and the answer is one sixteenth the mathematical solution is 1 16 but that is wrong the answer is

actually 1 because the question is how many 16ths are in there and there’s

only one sixteenth so the answer would be one so again you

gotta read the question and the question will tell you where to

look for the answer principle number six is judging

difficulty

questions are usually placed in order of difficulty in a 25 question

section question number one is generally easier than question number 25.

the tests have several sections one section is the equating or the experimental section

which is not scored this experimental equating section is inserted randomly

into the test to field test questions that will be used in future tests

so what it with this particular section of the test the experimental

section they’re testing questions to see how students answer

and if more students answer the question correct it will be placed higher up

in that section might be question number one two or three if more students answer the question

incorrect it could be placed further down in this section

i’ll give you an example that in in two slides judging principle number six judging

difficulty difficulty does not mean advanced difficulty is determined from previous

experimental equating sections difficult because kids guessed or selected the answer wrong

the more students who answer wrong the more difficult the question is determined so they’re

they’re inserting sucker answers to field test these questions they also put

in land mine sucker and doofus answers to determine difficulty of the question

[Applause] continuing with judging difficulty

i’m a visual person so what you can if you’re a visual person you can do this as well look at your test

booklet and if that section has 12 questions as an example

divide it in put a line through each in in make it into thirds so

questions one two three and four out of 12 are going to be easier and so draw a line between

four and five and then draw another line between eight and nine to kind of give you a

visual example of where these thirds are

so the first third of the tests are usually the easier answers

answers that appear right are usually correct the middle third the right answers

appear wrong to low scores and right to high scores so the middle third if it

is if the question appears to be super obvious

it’s it could be wrong in the last third the obvious answers

are usually wrong okay so divide the sections into thirds

and if you’re looking at the last third and the and the answer seems super obvious

it’s probably wrong that’s why you always use poe the process of elimination always

look for the wrong answers cross them out what’s left must be the right answer

principle number seven is backdoor answers bring a calculator because the proctor

will say this is the math section with calculator pull out your calculator and

you can use your calculator all the math can be answered without a calculator and solve without some number crunching

there are always backdoor answers in many of the math problems remember the answer is right there it’s

a b c or d just got to select the correct bubble to score high

back door answers also includes inductive thinking so remember our question earlier

how many sixteenths are in there that’s thinking and thinking inductive so this is

looking at the entire question and the problem and answers and using logic

to find the answer let the question tell you the answer using these math shortcuts

[Applause] and the reading shortcuts and rules we’re also going to talk about some sentence completion keys

and some analogy keys so let’s do an example of some inductive math

we’ve got this large number 87 million 155

936 over 284 what’s the answer to that abcd blah blah

well if we do some inductive thinking we don’t have to calculate out the whole

answer we can just do a portion of it so on the bottom here we’ve got four and

on top we’ve got six so here’s our question four times blank

equals six so we’ll go through each one of these answers here

so four times one is four nope that’s not we want a 6 there so we would

cross that one off 4 times 2 8 nope that one doesn’t work

either we’re going to cross that one off 4 times 3 that’s 12. that’s not even it

again we’re looking for the wrong answers we’re going to cross them off so we cross off that one 4 times

4 is 16 oh we got our six so what we’re going to do is we’re not

going to circle it because we still have another answer that we’ve got to look at we’re going to put a dash next to it

and then we’re going to finish our last one 4 times 5 is 20 nope

that doesn’t work we’re gonna cross that one off as well okay the reason why we use

poe is we want to go through each of the wrong answers and

and eliminate them what’s left must be the right answer so how much

math did we actually do for this question not very much

so we’ve got to look for some landmines the test companies know that we’re

teaching these strategies they know that we’re teaching poe process elimination

of questions so sometimes they might put in two questions that have a four at the end or

four so that equals our six there so that we might have to do an 84 times

whatever equals sometimes we have to do two numbers sometimes we can do it with just one number always

use poe here’s another question

what is the average of 12 tenths 1.05 and 98 so we’ve got these three

numbers here and what we notice with these two numbers

is that these are greater than one and with this one 98 we know that that

is less than 1 but it’s almost 1.

so the answer must be greater than 1. so we can look at our answers a b c d

and go okay which ones of these are greater than one we’ll cross off

anything that is less than one so a no b nope c b

nope those are all less than one so we’ll cross those off what’s left is e

so again how much mass did we really do with that that’s thinking

inductively here’s another one if 4x equals 18 what is the value of

4x minus 2 well the first thing that we know is

that the answer must be less than 18 because

we’ve got a minus 2 in there because 4x equals 18 the answer cannot

be 18 or greater so we’ve got to eliminate anything above 18.

so replace the x with the 18 so i’d write in my booklet uh 418 and then i would do the

little math on it uh 18 minus 2 so we’ve got our our subtraction in

there so that that’s 14 so the answer must be less than 14. uh eliminate anything

higher than 14 and we’ve got our answer there

the brain technique this is for the reading section we want

to read the sentence under your breath out loud and

hear hear it for yourself and then identify anything that sounds funny the reason why i want you to read it out

loud kind of read it under your breath so read the sentence under your breath out loud hear yourself read identify

anything that sounds funny the reason why i’m encouraging you to read it out loud

is that’s how you learned language when you were younger or maybe you have a younger brother or

sister um who might be two or three years old they’re learning the english language

your parents didn’t hand you a dictionary and say here you go here’s the english language no they talk to you and that’s how you

learned so when you hear something that sounds funny

it’s by hearing it you can identify things that sound funny sometimes when you read things in

your mind you correct things so when you hear it out loud if it

sounds funny yeah that might be the wrong answer and

again use poe so the same technique the same technique are all

elements in a series must be consistent so the colors were red blue and green

that’s consistent or the colors the colors were red blue and a green

when we add that the um a in there before green then

that doesn’t it’s not consistent there if it was the colors were a red a blue and a green that would be

consistent the same technique is also um

with the tense is the noun plural and the verb plural

or is the noun and a verb singular so both the noun and the verb must both be

plural or they must both be singular independent clauses can the sentence

stand on its own or not so an independent clause is a group of words that can stand on its own

as a sentence it has a subject a verb and a complete thought so with that can can you put a period

there between those two uh clauses and make it um

stand on its own a dependent clause is a group of words that also connect a subject

and a verb but is not a complete thought because it is not a complete thought a dependent clause cannot stand on its

own as a sentence it is depending on being attached to an independent clause

to form a sentence so if we put a period in between the two clauses if each of those

is not a complete sentence then it is a dependent clause

the a e i o u technique

a is allowed read the sentence as it is so again we want to read it under our

breath we want to read it loud enough so that we can hear it ourselves but we

don’t want to read it so loud that we’re disturbing the class a allowed

e eliminate eliminate the original if it does not sound good again p-o-e

i if the original sounds okay read the answers to yourself to see if

anything sounds better poe again oh observe the word relationships the

subjects and verb are they plural or singular um is

is the tense the same is the uh

are the elements all the same

and you use the answers in the passage and hear if they sound better

improving sentences this is what it looks like in the test

booklet and you’ll see up at the top of the section it’ll tell you the number of the section

and in this example it is section number five and and the test booklet tells you how long

this section is it’s 25 minutes and it says there are 35 questions

let’s let’s dive in and look at improving sentences

so our question is since last september patricia has been

working at the convenience store down the road so the first thing that i would do when i look at this sentence is

i would read it under my breath aloud softly read the sentence as it is

since last september patricia has been working at the convenience store down the road

and then i would go through each one of these since last september patricia has been working since last september patricia

works etc etc and use the aeiou technique

so a allowed softly since last september patricia has been

working at the convenience store down the road yeah that sounds

that sounds okay right so what dr beasley says is put a dash next

to it so that one sounds okay uh we’re also gonna go through the a

e i o u we’re gonna eliminate the original if it doesn’t sound good but it sounds okay so we put a dash next

to it i if the original sounds okay read the

answers to yourself to see if anything sounds better so again we’ll go through each one of these

since last september patricia works at the convenience store down the road

that one just kind of sounds funny um we want to observe the word relationship subject verb and are they the

plural or singular and is the

are all of the elements the same

and then we’ll go through each one nope that one doesn’t work since last september patricia is working

well that the tense is wrong on that one cross that one off will be working

if the tense is wrong on that one cross that one off as well since last september patricia worked

yeah that one could that could be okay um but here’s a little trick that dr

busey says sometimes the answer is the one with the most words in it i know it sounds silly but sometimes

that is so that’s correct so in this example here has been working has three words and e

worked has one word so in this scenario the correct answer is a

again we use poe the process of elimination

improving paragraphs this section sections of a paragraph are selected and

you are asked to improve sentence structure or word choice or consider the organization and development

here’s what it would look like

and we’ll zoom in on it it says which of which is the best version

of the underlined part of the sentence acclaimed so again we’re going to use

the aeiou technique we’re going to read it under our breath acclaimed as an artist in the united

states and europe at the turn of the century tanner was called dean of art by w.e.b dubois

so we’re going to go through the aeiou technique a we read it out loud e eliminate the

original if it doesn’t sound good and in this scenario it sounds okay

the original sounds okay we’re going to use the process of elimination and we’re going to observe word

techniques and relationships and um answer b

is it has a semicolon two independent clauses that one doesn’t work so we cross that one off answer c

is two dependent clauses that one doesn’t work either when we read d out loud it just sounds

awkward so we cross that one off and e also is awkward

we would cross that one off as well so again use poe and by the process of elimination we

found the correct answer a always look for the wrong answer cross them off what’s left must be the

right answer sentence completions here’s another acronym tomcat

what is the tone is the tone good bad positive or negative

is the object in agreement or on opposition is the meaning good bad positive or

negative you want to check your answers accept or reject answers and t

try them in a sentence so the tone uh angel

is a good word thief is a bad word progress is positive weakness is

negative water is neutral so as you read the question think is this good bad positive negative

or neutral we’re on page eight in your workbook

and question number one or sentence number one uh unbricking a

kiln again we would read this under our breath unbricking a kiln after firing is like a person uncovering

buried treasure so

a sounds good we’re going to put a dash next to it

so dr beasley has a quick cheat answer and that is start

so our answers are a no change b someone c potter or d

omit the underlying section so dr beasley’s little cheat is start

with the omit and then work up if the omit is corrupt sounds good it’s usually the correct

answer so we’ll read it unbreaking a kiln after firing is like

uncovering buried treasure again we would read that under a breath and yeah that sounds right so we’re

going to put it a dash next to that one but we’re not going to stop there we’re going to

always use poe the process of elimination and as we read those other uh

answers uh c and b they just sound funny sound wrong etc so we would cross

them off now we’ve got our we’ve got our um a or b or d answer and

using the process of elimination again dr busey says it’s usually the omit so cross off a

by the process elimination we’ve identified the right answer

so the s.a.t writing tactic is you want to look at the entire

section before you start answering there are three sat sub-sections

improving sentences sentence errors and improving paragraphs

go through each of the sections so go through the improving sentences section

mark all the answers in your test booklet and once you have finished the improving sentences

section or subsection then transfer those answers to your

bubble sheet then work on the sentence errors subsection answer all of those in your

booklet and then once you’ve finished that subsection then transfer all of your answers to the

bubble sheet same thing with improving paragraphs so transferring after each subsection

improving sentences sentence errors improving paragraphs for the first section after each of

those yeah i just said that transfer all of your answers for the act

there are five act passages do passage number one answer all of those then

transfer all of your answers to your bubble sheet then do passage number two etc etc

by transferring your answers after finishing a subsection you’re going to save time remember the

biggest complaint students have is they ran out of time by doing this little strategy here you

will have more time to work on questions

if you get hung up with a question circle it and move on do not spend more than a

minute on any question after you’ve finished a section then come back to

those questions that you skipped if you’re still hung up come back to it after you’ve finished

all of the sections and then after you’ve transferred all of your answers if you run out of

time and this is the second third or fourth time you’ve taken a test now we’re going to use strategic guessing and guess on an answer

don’t leave any questions blank after you take the test and you get your

score sheets back you want to check your work indicate the answers that you got

incorrect and ask yourself why did you get those incorrect

you can also order the test information release for the a for the act and the question and answer

service for the sat and those are individual booklets

that will have all the questions and all the answers in it if that’s an option and you’re planning on taking the

test again then do order those here’s the math

section and you can see where it says math test section number three no calculator

math test section number four with a calculator so the proctor will say this

is section number whatever math and it is no calculator please put your calculators away

now what we also notice on here it says 25 minutes 20 questions

each of the sections are going to be a little bit different as to how many questions and how many minutes

for each of these sub sections and the proctor will say this this section is 25 minutes

um go and then about five minutes towards the end of that

section he’ll the proctor will say we’ve got five minutes in the test left we’ve got one minute and a test

left time is up put your pencils down when we look at this 25 minutes 20

questions what we can do is we can in our mind go okay at 12 and a half minutes into

the test i should be about halfway through the test this is another way to

pace yourself

here’s an example of the grid in and with the grid in it is the math section

and maybe with the calculator it might be without the calculator and the um if the answer is

2.5 then you would bubble in the number two bubble in the decimal point and bubble

in the five that’s what the grid in section would look like

for the redesigned sat and the psat there’s two math sections

with and without calculator again the proctor will notify you of that also in the test

booklet it’ll state on there this is with a calculator or this is without the calculator

here’s our math techniques crack the safe big versus small plug and chug function factor rule range rule pod

averages travel rule geometry rule we’re on page 12 on the booklet

so crack the safe is our acronym we want to check the whole problem

we want to look at our rules our plug and chug rules we want to look for our answers look for

clues and use o e c we want to crunch the math if we need to

k we will look for key data so look for key data if necessary so

big versus small is a fraction so in in one fraction you might have a bigger number over a smaller number

or a smaller number over a big number when we look at big versus small big over small we know

that this one is greater than one when we look at small over big we know that this one is less than

one so let’s take a look at the big versus small example so we’ve got three to the second

power plus three to the second power over two to the third plus two to the third what’s the first thing that we notice

here the first thing we notice is that three is a bigger number than than two so we

got big over small so what do we know automatically we know that this answer

must be greater than one so we can look at our answers a b

c d or e and eliminate anything that is one or less than one

so a yeah that one nine over eight that’s greater than one b is one that’s

not it c nine over 116 nope uh d that’s less than one e that’s less

than one cross all of those off by the process of elimination we have identified the right answer how

much math did we do on that one not very much

the plug and chug rule

the plug and chug rule states if a letter is an actual number then write it in a

book then do the little math this will help you identify the answer easier and quicker

write in remember your your test booklet is yours to write notes

um do do the math crunching write down formulas you can write down

things like plug and chug p o e just as uh reminders for yourself

so in this example we do have some clues if y equals negative 8 then y

plus 4 y minus 4 equals so our first clue is y

is negative 8 then we want to cross off y

and write in our test booklet negative 8. so negative 8 plus 4 and then we got negative 8 minus

4 then we want to do the math on that

and then do our multiplications and then using the process elimination

we’ve identified the right answer so sometimes we’ve got some clues in there

and in this example we do have a clue

here is another example of the plug and chug rule if x and y are both odd numbers

which of the following must be an odd number a x plus y b x y

etc so what’s our first clue our first clue

is that’s an that x and y are odd numbers so cross off x and y and write in

um a low odd number so in in doctor b example he’s saying x is 3 and

y is 5. again you can use any odd number and then do the little math on it so 3

plus 5 equals 8 nope 3 times 5 is 15. yeah that could be

we’re not going to stop there we’re going to use process elimination we’re going to put a dash next to it

uh 15 plus 1 is 16 nope that is not an odd number cross that one

off that’s also not an odd number cross that one off that’s not an odd number again by the

process elimination we have identified the correct answers

so write in your test booklet because some of you are visual learners so which one is an odd

number versus which one is an even number

the function and factor rule that

so what dr bz says is there are only with math there are only four functions

add subtract multiply and divide if you are a super genius and can come

up with a fifth math function then you probably need to work for

nasa or space x or something like that but currently there are only

four math functions adds apply multiply and divide so the factors are

are the numbers and or representations of numbers so what is our function our

function is add subtract multiply divide and what is our factor our factor is either a number or a

representation of a number so number five number six number 17

or a representation of a number x y z etc all the answers are given

a b c or d and or if it is um

or it might be the the grid in answers other than that the answers are there so let’s take a

look at a function and factor rule example if a over

if a b over c minus 1 over x equals 0 then x equals so as we’re looking at

this equation do we have any clues as to what a or b or c or x is

and the answer is no there are no clues as to what a or b is what is the value of a b

we have no idea we’re not given that information because because of that

because we don’t know what a b is we’re just given a this variable here

the answer must contain a b so a b can never be separated

because we don’t have any actual number representations or number clues here

so we cross off anything where a and b are separated so answer number b

is ac over b a and b are separated cross that off c we’ve got a b together and as well as

a we’ve got a b together um d we’ve got uh a and b separated again

cross that one off e we’ve got that one separated as well

so cross that one off so the answer has to contain a b and if we look at answer a

it’s the same as the as the equation a b over c but we also have another clue

in here which is the subtraction so it can’t be a cross that off

so by the process elimination we’ve come up with the right answer again how much math did we do in this

one again this is kind of thinking deductively as well the range rule

states to find the high end and eliminate anything that is x or higher and then find the low end and eliminate

anything that is y or lower so here’s the example of that one there are 10 members on the basketball

team if electing a captain and a co-captain how many different outcomes of the election are

possible so find the high end which would be it if each of the 10 members had

could choose any of the other 10 members as captain or co-captain that would be 10 times 10 that would be

a hundred so we want to eliminate anything that is a hundred or above cross that off

and then if one of the ten members decided not to vote for whatever reason

that would be nine choosing um nine numbers with nine different options so nine

times nine is eighty-one eliminate anything that is eighty-one and below

what’s left and of course we’ve got our answer there c

here’s another example of the range rule a square piece of wood seven foot on a side is cut

diagonally approximately what is the perimeter well again for some of you your visual

learners you might want to draw in your in your booklet a square and write in there seven seven

seven seven and if you add those four sevens together we’ve got 28

so that is our high we want to cross off 28 or anything above that

cross those off and then if we cut it diagonally and surmise that that diagonal would

also be 7 so 7 plus 7 plus 7 is 21 that’s our low want to eliminate

anything 21 or below again using the process of elimination what is

left oops i’m backwards there we go

so our seven basic principles if you understand these principles and strategies and implement them when you

take the test you will score higher so what um what are these seven basic principles

again we’ll kind of go over them uh number one is the answers are there a

b c or d number two use the process elimination number three

after using poe use calculated guessing number four use your test booklet write

and take notes number five um examine the different types of wrong answers

point answers doofus answers etc number six judge difficulty is this

question in the first third the middle third or the bottom third easier questions are at the beginning of

the test and harder questions are at the end of the test and seven back

door answers is thinking inductively the travel

rule uh here’s an example of that one a car travels 200 miles from a to b

at 40 miles an hour and returns from b to a at 50 miles per hour

what is the average speed for the round trip so the travel rule says that the answer

is slightly less than the midpoint of the two extremes

so slightly less

then the midpoint of the two extremes

so um 40 and 50 what’s the the midpoint between

those 45 so the travel rule states that it is

going to be slightly less than that midpoint so the midpoint is 45

between 40 and 50. so that’s c on here but c is not the right answer

it’s actually slightly less so it would actually be b 44.4

geometry rules here’s the x rule and the x rule uh states that opposite

angles are equal small angles equal small angles and big angles equal big

angles so in the graph here it says a and b both of those are going to be

the same angle and i’m sorry a and a and then b and b are going to be the same angle

the y rule for geometry states that a and b will always equal 180 degrees

because that is a straight line and the z rule states that inside angles

equal inside angles and outside angles equal outside angles so

in the graph here we’ve got a and a those are going to be the same angles

and b and b those are going to be the same angles

so here is a example of a question in the figure above st is parallel to uv

and lm is parallel to no what is the value of a plus

b well we’ve got a little clue in there where it says 110 degrees

remember that these people stay up late at night trying to figure out ways to trick us

and they put that 110 degrees in there to throw us off that’s our land mine

there i kind of call it a squirrel hey squirrel and you your head jerks and look to the

look over there that’s basically what they’re trying to do here

so if the figure above st is parallel to uv what is

the value of a b so st and uv and lm and no those are all

distractions the only question that they’re really asking is what is the value of a plus b

and we notice that that is a straight line and the answer is 180 degrees

so again look at the question and sometimes the question points you

to the answer using these rules [Applause]

here’s our math tactic give yourself about 30 seconds for each question mark your answers in the test

booklet you want to paste yourself finish each section and then transfer

the answers to the bubble sheet and then for it that’s for the sat um and for the act

do a page and then transfer that whole page answers to your bubble

sheet if you get hung up on a question mark it with a market and circle it and then move on

do not spend more than a minute on any question remember that the biggest complaint is um

that i have i spent too much i lost time that’s the biggest complaint that that

um that students have so again circle it move on don’t spend

more than a minute if you’re at a time after you’ve transferred all of your answers then

guess again if you’re taking the test the second or third or fourth time

don’t leave any answers blank use poe first and then guess most sat prep courses

teach some form of poe college board will often place

relatively simple easy answers in the first three to five questions

so that students become over confident with the ability to pick out the right answer and decide

that they don’t need to use poe the process elimination or any other system

remember that they split the test into thirds the first third is going to be

easier than the middle third or the last third and they do that on purpose

so to give the students an overabundance of confidence and

eliminate all these things that we’re teaching you do not abandon the system don’t abandon

this ship always use poe and these other strategies let’s take a look at some more math

stuff

we’re on page 19 in your book let’s look at the plug and chug rule this rule states to do the simple math

so sometimes we have to do the math on there so we’ve got our our equation here 7 minus

3 minus 3 minus 7 equals what so we’re going to do the little math on

it so the plug and chug rule states to do the math so seven minus three equals four

write that in your booklet three minus seven is negative four write that in your

booklet four minus four is 0. so again sometimes

we do the little math cross off the wrong answers what’s left must be the right answer

let’s look at our sentence structure sentence section again

uh i already told you this one we’re gonna go through it again tomcat what’s the tone is a good bad positive

or negative what’s the object is the object in agreement or in opposition

what’s the meaning is it meaning good bad positive or negative we want to check our answers we want to accept or reject our answers we want to

try them in a sentence so again what’s our tone angel’s a good word thief is bad progress is positive

weakness is negative and water is neutral

so as we look at this sentence completion for the act this is a sample question is the tone

good bad positive negative what is the tone of the sentence is it positive or negative

the answers will be something in agreement with something that might increase along with the added

monthly charges always use poe

so let’s read our statement here the tenants were hostile towards the new

initiatives well hostiles definitely negative or bad word

the added monthly charges they wanted no part of a landlord who might

increase blank

so what’s the tone the tone is bad the object needs to be in agreement with

something that is bad a landlord who might increase something bad

an added monthly charges the meaning is bad so

we’ll go through these a landlord who might increase facilities or increasing

facilities that’s good so in this in this example here we’re looking for something

that’s bad so we’d cross off facilities a landlord who might increase apartments yeah that might be bad

i’m sorry b might increase services increasing services is good a landlord

who might increase c cost that one uh that one that one might fit

we’ll put a dash next to that one a landlord who might increase apartments that could be bad but it really doesn’t

fit in our scenario here a landlord who might increase population yeah

that’s kind of negative but doesn’t fit our scenario here as well so by the process elimination we’ve come

up with the right answer

so in this scenario here we’ve got two blanks in law school the most challenging

period is when the blank of information required overwhelms the student’s blank to absorb

it so we’ve got our answers a b c d or e and we’ve got two words in there and the

first word would go in the first blank and the second word would go in the second

blank as we read this is this good or bad what is it

and what dr beasley says is to use the first word and see if that fits

or not with the two word sections start with the first word for each one

if it doesn’t fit then eliminate it again poe what’s our tone our tone is

bad because it overwhelms and needs to be in agreement with overwhelms

and the meaning needs to be bad so our first word needs to be a bad meaning

in law school the most challenging period is when the knowledge well knowledge is good

that doesn’t fit our scenario here in law school the most challenging period again we might even read this under our

breath in law school the most challenging period is when the volume yeah volume could work we’ll put

a dash next to that one when the complexity yeah that one could

work we’ll put a dash next to that one when the amount yeah that one could work

as well we’ll put a dash next to that one when the addition now that one doesn’t

work so just by doing this we’ve eliminated two of the answers now we’ve got

um the remaining to go through here and we’re going to go with our second

word so it says

information required overwhelms the students blank overwhelms the students capacity

our tone is good now and needs to be in agreement with absorb it but the meaning needs to be

bad so overwhelms the student’s capacity

to absorb it that one could work overwhelms a

student’s memory now that one doesn’t really work we’ll cross that one off

overwhelms the student’s aptitude to absorb it that one doesn’t work either by the

process of elimination we’ve come up with the right answer

always use poe process elimination so here’s the landmine the first word

fits perfectly and the second word is force fitted both words have to fit

that’s a trap first word forces the second word

here’s our reading section and what dr beasley says is

do not start reading the passages start with the questions first

identify the different types of questions so there’s three types of questions

there’s the easy questions the medium questions and the hard questions so the easy

questions the location of the answer is given question number 12 the phrase joyful and

hateful times line 33 indicates that the author thinks blank

we know that the answer is going to be somewhere around line 33 so we would look at line 33

medium questions you have the specific location for the answer or you have a specific thing to look for

the answer as an example the main point in the opening paragraph

is and we know that the answer is going to be somewhere in the opening paragraph you

know to scan and look for the answer there or look for a thing what was henry

thinking about when you heard the knock on the door so we’ve got our key words there knock on the door

so we would scan the passage looking for the words knock on the door once we find the words

knock on the door i would underline it in the booklet and then read a couple lines above we’ll read a

couple lines below and we’ll probably find our answer there

hard or skim questions we have to look at the overall passage

one of the main arguments the author is trying to make in this passage is we’re not given any clues

in this one at all we’re not giving any any numerical clues line 33

or knock on the door so this would be a harder question um although that you can skim the

passage there’s some other things that we can do to identify these answers

some hard questions there are some exceptions with this not accept and other negative questions

are skim or hard questions which of the following is not how hank saw himself the author

would say fred is all these except these require you to think backwards so leave them for

last so the reading technique is to scope the whole reading section first take a quick

glance at the whole section and then look at the questions

mark each question with a one for easy two for medium and three for hard

so the first thing you want to do is look at the questions and mark in the sections one two or

three so question number 12 the phrase joyful

example times line 33 that’s a one the main point in opening

paragraph that’s a medium we’re told to look in the opening paragraph we’re marking the margin two and

question number 23 one of the main arguments authors trying to make we’re not giving any clues there that’s a harder one mark

that with with a three that is the first thing that you want to do when you’re in the reading section

so for each passage answer the easy questions first

then answer the medium questions second and then answer the hard questions

last and then as you do your easy questions mark them in your booklet

et cetera write your answers in the test book transfer the answers at the end of each

passage

the reason why we want to do this again is by identifying the ones twos and the

threes is this is going to save you time what’s the biggest complaint students have is i

ran out of time so locate the place in the text read a couple lines above or below

answer the question read a few more lines above or below if necessary underline the answer

the reason why you want to underline the answer is it’s going to help you with the other questions

write your answer and mark it in a test booklet for the mediums locate the paragraph in

the text read the paragraph and then answer the question once you find the answer

underline it if you have to read a couple more lines above or below if necessary

and then mark your answer in your test booklet for the thing the mediums

locate the thing in the text underline it so knock on the door so i would underline

knock on the door read a couple lines above and below it answer the question

if you need to read a few more lines above or below if necessary mark your answer in your test booklet

for the hard questions because you already answered the easies and the mediums

you probably have a general idea of the overall topic

and in some cases you already know enough that you could kind of just skim through it and get the right answer so skim the

whole passage if you need to answer so again you can look at your ones and your twos that you

underlined in the passage and those will kind of guide you with

the threes the hard questions and then mark in your test booklet

because you’ve already answered the easies and the mediums um yep we just said that

so time crunch if you run out of time on the test

run out of time on the test on the last passage do the easies first and then transfer your answers

then do the mediums and then transfer your answers and then do the hards and transfer your answers if you guess

right out of time do not leave any answers blank if you’re taking this a second or more times

here’s an example of what it would look like

so we’ve got our passages passage one and passage two

we identify these so question number six it says the

primary purpose of purpose of passage one you know to look in passage one

so that would be number two prior participants of passage two we know to look for the

answer in passage two we would mark that with the number two and this next one it says line sixteen

through twenty one that’s the easy one mark it with a one and the last one is unlike the author of

passage one or the author of passage two we’re not given any clues there that would be a three leave that one for last

here’s another example question number ten is line number one

question number eleven lines six and seven question number twelve lines nine

through eleven those are all ones those are all easy and line twenty 24 1 in line 257

that’s a 1 line 34 line 39 through 40. those are all easies

here’s a couple more examples line four and five line six and five lines five and six and then

question number twelve the primary purpose of the passage is

we’re not given any clues there that would be a three that would be harder

here’s another example the author of both passages agrees that kings i have a dream speech

so we’re given a sort of clue both passages but we would have to skim or read both

passages in order to get our answer that would be a number three

question uh line line 10 11 line 7 7 through 11 line 17 line

1 31 234 line 35 etc etc those are all ones question number 19

on here it says the author of passage two would most likely characterize the view

of king’s express expressed in lines 38-42 of passage one

so that would be either that’s kind of a combination of a two and a three and a one uh and i would mark that as a

three and leave that one for last question number 22 on our example here

it says unlike the author of passage two the author of passage one

that would be a three that would be a harder one leave that one for last

the redesign sat has more reading passages to save time learn the skill of

identifying the easy mediums and hards mark them in your booklet the tests are designed so the slower

readers run out of time what is the biggest complaint that students have i ran out of time

this is another way that you can save time as you’re going through this test

here’s a couple more examples the author of passage two line seven of passage one that will kind

of be a medium one question number 24 what best characterize the overall relationship

between the two passages that would be a three leave that one for last

let’s skip through here real quick can we identify these we’ve got our three here

what is the following best describes the structure of the passage we’re not given any any clue there

question number two based on the passage what is the following statement best described for the overall

attitude of the narrator and the woman so and the woman i would look for the woman

in the passage and underline that that would be a two that one’s harder we’ll kind of skip

through all these here i think you guys get the basic idea

which of the following best described destruction passage that’s a three based on the passage and the woman

there’s our keywords that’s a number two lines ten through thirteen that’s a one

woman’s worries is our key words here that’s a number two look for the words woman’s worries and

underline that in the passage read a couple lines above and below and you’ll get your answer there

58 easy so our reading tactic is to scope the

entire section all the passages and identify and mark the types of questions

start with the passage with the most easy questions answer those first so go through

passes one two and three do the easy questions first answer those mark them in your booklet

then do the medium questions mark them in your booklet and then leave the hearts for last

and then transfer your answers don’t spend more than 30 seconds on any

question if you get hung up with it circle it and come back to it later after you’ve completed the passage then

go back to your ones that you’ve skipped if you’re still hung up on it

finish the entire section transfer all of your answers

and then come back to the questions you’ve skipped if you run out of time guess don’t leave

any answers blank the experimental section this is inserted to field test questions

we don’t know which section it is how these questions are answered

determines the difficulty of the question the more students who get it wrong the more difficult it is considered

whether you get every question right or every question wrong in the

experimental section it has no correlation to what your overall score is going to be

it’s only there to determine where to place the questions in future tests a ct

has some science questions dr beasley says don’t be blinded with science

we’ve got our section there tells us how many minutes and how many questions so we’ve got 35 minutes and

40 questions so i would mark in my booklet um at about

let’s see that would be 15 67 maybe about 17 or 18 minutes into the

test i should be about halfway through the questions

we’ve got seven passages lots of charts and graphs this is not rocket science dr beezy will

show you sometimes students get a little freaked out about the science section don’t get freaked out because we’re

going to show you so here we’ve got our example question

figure 1 shows that a seismograph located at a point 125 degrees around earth from an

earthquake’s focus will receive what type of seismic wave if either from that earthquake p waves

only s waves only both p and s neither p and s huh i don’t know i’ve never been in an

earthquake i don’t know what’s the first thing is it says to go

look at the graph so locate where 125 degrees is

it’s between the 103 and 142 mark it’s in the shadow zone and what does it

say there in the graph it says neither p waves nor s waves

received at seismograph so what’s our answer our answer is c

so our science section is scope the entire section all seven passages and identify and mark the questions

don’t get hung up

don’t spend more than 30 seconds on any question if you get hung up on the question mark it with an x and or and circle it and come back to it

later finish the passage if you’re still hung up come back to it after

you finish the entire section then and after you’ve transferred all of your answers if you run out of time guests

don’t leave any answers blank in the booklet there are some other rules you can check out those rules

later on so the week of the test study one to two hours monday through

thursday don’t try to cram focus and practice

you want to map out where you’re going to be taking the test because we live in arizona the land of

perpetual road construction we don’t know if

there’s going to be any construction we want to map it out

the reason why you want to map it out is we want to eliminate stress you want to get all your stuff together your test registration your id all that

stuff the night before the test stay home relax watch a dumb

movie i recently saw the movie tennant and

uh the next day i’m running around going are we in a timeline i don’t know it was kind of freaky and

stuff so watch a dumb movie something that you were that you’re already familiar with a

comedy just to kind of relax and stuff have a good dinner and get out

all your clothes and stuff the night before go to bed but bye or before 11 read if

you can’t sleep get everything out but the night before your registration your id your snacks

your pencils your calculators um and a watch we’ll talk about a watch in just a

second and then make sure your car has enough gas if you’re going to be driving

yourself and then get a basic watch no smart

watches no internet accessible watches the reason why i’m encouraging you to get a watch

is because most classrooms have a clock

in the back of the room and if you turn your head to look to the back you’re going to waste some

time a couple seconds doing that whereas you can glance down at your

wrist and see your watch there uh or if you if you turn your head and

look towards the back to look at the clock in the back of the room the proctor may think that you’re

cheating and if that’s the case the proctor will come over and will take

your tests away and tell you to leave they are very very strict on this so

just get a cheap watch and then also when the when it when the proctor says

it’s 30 minutes and you’re looking at your clock and it is um

uh 10 45 you can mark in your booklet i started it or 10 45 and then add 30

minutes to that know that 11 15 that you would have to be done so you could kind of

pace yourself that way the morning of the test get up early at six and hydrate

it does take about an hour and a half for your brain to wake up so even if you live across the street

from where you’re taking the test you want to make sure that you’re getting up at least an hour and a half to two hours

before the test so that your brain fully wakes up have a good breakfast

um dr beasley likes oatmeal and dress in layers because we live in

the land perpetual air condition we don’t know if the air conditioner is going to be stuck on

ice cold or blistering heat so you with layers you’ll be able to

adjust accordingly make sure you’ve got all your registration your id pencils calculators

and your snack get there early and leave your cell phone at home

we had a student who went to uh mom dropped her off

mom dropped her off and um there were some logistic problems and

they started the test about 20 to 25 minutes late well mom said okay we know the tesla’s

going to be over around noon and mom showed up at a little bit before

noon it was waiting and all of a sudden it’s at 10 minutes after noon

15 minutes after 12 20 minutes 25 minutes after 12 and mom

starts freaking out i don’t know where my where my daughter is i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know and mom freaked out and she called her

daughter on the phone well there was three minutes left in the test

and and the daughter’s phone rang right in the middle of the test and

disturb the entire class the proctor walked over with three minutes left

took her test away and said you’ve disturbed the class your test no longer counts you need to

leave now yes the proctors will be that strict

so leave your cell phone at home you can survive without it for half a day after the test go

someplace and eat get a milkshake or whatever okay jd but what do i really do you want

to start now the earlier you start in this process the better take a live real test for practice your

score doesn’t matter the first time look at your score sheet determine what areas you study and improve

review dr beezy’s videos i’ll send those out to you shortly pick up an official prep book and i do

want to emphasize the words official review the sct and act question of the

day apps i will send you an email where you can click on the link and download those

you can review some practice tests i’ll send you links to those as well

look at your list of colleges and determine which college is the most rigorous to get into

that’s on your list and then you want to aim for those scores you can also download the college grid

here’s the link for it i’ll send you an email with that link this is what the grid looks like we’ll

zoom in on it there’s a couple questions you want to have answered for each of the colleges you’re thinking about

when is the early action deadline when’s the regular deadline what are the scholarship requirements

and when is the last date to submit sat or act scores for

scholarships you want to reach out to your recruiter contact and ask these questions when’s the early

action deadline wins the regular deadline what do i have to do for scholarships

what gpa or test score do i need for scholarships and then ask the

recruiter when is the last time i can submit sat or act scores for scholarships

if the recruiter says you’ve got to have your test score submitted before december 1st

of your senior year you know that you could take the test potentially

in september october or november of your senior year and get it in before that deadline so

there would be no reason to take the test in december if they wanted it by

december 1st so that kind of will help you track when you should potentially take the

last the test the last time again what’s our goal our goal is to get the score we want some time

in our junior year so here’s an example we’re going to look at an example of a college we’re going to look at

pepperdine go to college board type in the name of the school click on the applying button

and we can see that pepperdine is very selective 32 of the students are

admitted so it’s a little bit of a challenge to get into this school

and then we want to click on test scores and it says that our sat score range is

12 30 to 14 50. if i was applying to pepperdine i’d want my scores to be in

that range preferably on the upper end of that range

really jd this sounds like a lot of work yeah think of it as your job your hard

work now will result in a great scholarship yes really you can do it you can get a

great score you can get a great scholarship here’s a couple examples of some

scholarship money i have a student who earned based on his gpa and his test score

22 950 per year if you multiply that times four years

that’s ninety-one thousand eight hundred dollars in scholarships if you’re working at starbucks or target

how many hours would you have to work to earn ninety-one thousand dollars that’s a lot of hours you can earn that

by getting good grades and a strong test score here’s another example twenty thousand

dollar non-resident tuition waiver twenty thousand dollars times four years is eighty thousand dollars

here’s another example thirty two thousand dollars times four years a hundred and twenty

nine thousand dollars here’s another example with a gpa

of 3.0 and an act score of 32 or an sat score of 1400

this student would get full tuition fees on

campus dorm and meals for four years that equals free college

yes you can do it here’s a great sat word iteration

and iteration means the act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired goal target or

result each repetition of the process is also called an iteration and the result of one iteration

are used as a starting point for the next iteration so if we’re building a pyramid we’re

going to put the first stone down and the first stone is the first iteration and the

and that first stone tells us where the second stone is is going to go so our first iteration is

go and take the test get your score sheet back your score sheets your first iteration your first

stone and then from there we build stop looking for the correct answers

find all the wrong answers and cross them out

seniors class of 21 ask if you should be taking the test or not juniors let’s take the sct and act

as soon as possible so possibly for the march test

march 13th 2021 is the next sat or april 17th for the

act so um juniors take it now and if

necessary take it again in may or june sophomores take it in may or

june and then you’ll get your score sheet back so if you took it in june you should get

your score sheet back about 30 days later so you get around the first part of july

study all of july study all of august and then take the test at the end of august right at the beginning of your

junior year and let’s see what you get for the sat or study a little bit longer and then take

the act in september and let’s see what you get freshmen take the sct act and psat

so if you are a junior or sophomore and you’re gonna be taking a test in a couple weeks or so start studying now

so if you’re taking the sat in march one hour of study every day for the next

25 days is 25 hours of prep and then take the

weekends off if you’re taking that a ct in april

17 2021 that’s about 50 days from now half an hour a day will give you 25

hours of prep and that’s taking the weekends off so the magic number is 20 or more

hours of prep

there was an article recently published new data links 20 hours of personalized prep on khan

academy is equal to 115 points gain so again break it down

if the test is is 25 days away an hour a day we’ll hit that mark

if the test is 50 days away half hour a day we’ll hit that mark so again pace

yourself with your prep and as you’re going through khan academy

if you don’t have a con account please create one it as you’re going through khan academy

and you look at it you go oh i think the answer is a and you click it and you get it correct stop for half a

second read why a is correct then click on b and read why b is wrong

click on c read why c is wrong click on d read why that one is wrong the reason

why i want you to look at the wrong answers and read those explanations

is because you’re going to start noticing these patterns and these patterns will help you

identify the right answer as you’re going and taking a live test

make it spin there it goes here’s a link to the videos

dr busy videos i will email you that and do we have any questions

jen can have the ipad let’s see if we’ve got any questions in

the text section

okay i’m not seeing any questions in here all right if you do have questions

please do reach out to me if you want to create a customized

testing game plan please do talk to me and i wish you the very best of success

when you take the test and when you do get your scores please send me an email or give me a

call and let me know what those scores are and we can kind of plan on how we’re going to

move forward and remember to tell some friends about it have a great day

and we’ll talk to you guys later on have a wonderful weekend

bye-bye

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