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