Master the English Section Patterns
The English section on the SAT can be very tricky, but once you understand the patterns it becomes much easier.
In this course, we will help you remedy any holes in your comprehension and teach you the strategies and patterns to add 50-150 points to your English score this summer.
How to increase your Digital SAT English score by 50-150 points this summer without the overwhelm
A Focus on Evidence-Based Studying Techniques
Most courses don’t teach students how to actually study for the SAT. They just give them the content and expect them to know the best ways to learn it. I teach not just the content, the rules, and the material, but also a SYSTEM for HOW to study it for long-term retention and understanding.
Tons of Live Support + Teaching
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Can't Make the Live Sessions? No problem. It's Self-Paced Too!
Even if the time doesn't work for you, you can still participate in the self-paced lessons + quizzes. Everything we go over live will have a self-paced counterpart.
Where and When?
Meetings occur over Zoom
July 2nd - August 27th
Tuesdays 6-8:30pm EST
Proposed Live + Self-Paced Curriculum
(This is the main idea, but this will be updated & improved)
Self-paced lessons will only be available AFTER the live version of the lesson.
- Khan Academy Course Link
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- "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
Hi, I'm Tom.
After working for 10 years in various mentoring, teaching, and tutoring opportunities, I developed a system for helping adolescents cultivate self-connection, efficient work habits, and transform their academic experience into an opportunity to bring out their best selves.
I do what I do because few things are more satisfying to me than seeing the pride that students feel when they achieve something they thought was impossible.
After I studied accelerated learning techniques and studied with some of the best SAT tutors and coaches in the country, I refined and simplified them into a system designed to be easily digested by today’s teenage students and can also be incorporated into the rest of their lives.
I helped students go from confusion and failing classes to confidence to confidence and A’s.
I helped students who were confused about their life path take their interests more seriously.
I give my students what I wish I had as a teen.
