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Digital SAT English Masterclass 2024
Welcome. Let's Discover Your Long-Term SAT Strategy!
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Course Overview
Setting Realistic & Exciting SAT English Goals
Grammar or Reading: Which category is easier to improve in?
Short-Term vs. Long-Term Approaches
The Top 5 Reasons Students Do & Don't Improve.
Utilizing Superscoring
A Broad Overview of the Highest Yield Topics in the Course
Elite Study Routines: How To Study To Make The Most of This Class
To do: Join the Khan Academy Class
Turn Weaknesses into Strengths with Active Recall Cards + Spaced Repetition
Overcome the Fluency Illusion with Active Recall
Transform Weaknesses into Strengths with The Study Cycle
Cognitive Elaboration + Self-Explanation
First Accuracy, Then Speed. Last - Give Yourself Less Time Than You Need.
Use AI To Enhance Your Understanding
Uncover your True Motives to Excel and Utilize Them
Create Your Elite Practice Routine & Consistently Use It
Use AI to Generate Progressive Problem Sets Like Official Problems
Interlude - Build Confidence by Simulating the Testing Experience
How to Transform Natural Nervousness into Confidence
Grammar Mastery - Highest Yield - +30-100 Points
Make Active Recall + Spaced Repetition Grammar Mastery Cards
Parts of Speech Review
Clauses - Restrictive and Non-restrictive
Sentence Structure and Punctuation
Subject-Verb Agreement
Eliminating Non-essential Phrases to Simplify Sentences
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Misplaced Modifiers and the Intro Phrase + Comma Pattern
Possessives and Contractions: It's vs Its
Highest Yield Question Patterns - +30-50 Points
The super easy approach to bullet point questions
Reading Comprehension
A Quick overview and practice of every major reading technique
Main ideas vs. Secondary Ideas.
The incredible importance of Transition + Hedge Words
Summarizing As You Go & Annotation Skills
Simplify Hypotheses with Arrow Drawings
Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Inferring and Interpreting Information
Recognizing Main Purpose and Tone
Command of Textual Evidence (35:32)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Building Techniques
Vocabulary Question Strategies
Passage Patterns
How Mastering Patterns is the Key to Speed and Accuracy
Science Patterns
Science Pattern: When something "new" is introduced, compare and contrast with the old
Get the Causality Right -- Causal Direction Mental Models Exercises
Get the Evidence Right - Connecting Evidence to Claims Clearly
Literature + Poetry Patterns
Other Reading Patterns
Reading Question Strategies
"If this answer choice was true, what would the passage HAVE to look like?"
One word can make an answer choice wrong
Answer choices say many things, make sure you choose only the answer that has ALL true parts.
Exercise: Split "propositional statements" of answer choices into parts
Inferences: Choose the answer that makes the least unsubstantiated assumptions
Test-taking Strategies
Consider Taking the English Test Backwards -- Bullet Questions First
Guessing Strategies
Avoiding Common Traps
Review and Practice Exams
Conclusion
Celebrating Success & Learning Opportunities
The SAT is a small part of your overall college portfolio
The college admissions journey is a small part of your personal development
Short-Term vs. Long-Term Approaches
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