SAT/ACT Hints and Controversies (Read this is guaranteed to help a little)

This is going to help you all out so much so even if I do not cover anything controversial in this please read this if you are about to take the SAT/ACTs soon. I am in an SAT workshop right now, so what I tell you is probably going to be from there so you can trust it. The hints for how to take the test better are at the bottom.

I think the test they give are completely bogus a company designs this test so that you have to conform to their thinking style in order to get into a good college but you will never use the techniques you use on this test in class so it is really pointless. These tests are designed so that you score a lot of point in the beginning and then lose them all when you get to the hard section therefore you score low and send more money to these companies to take it again. One of the people who they hire every year to make the SAT so I am going to go on thinking that it is right told me this.

My controversy over this subject is that is does not help you for school in any way whatsoever. So my solution is that the college you are trying to go to should just give you a test of their own that you score accordingly on and they can get a better feel for what you know and don’t and then decide whether to accept you or not kind of like a pre-placement test I think that would work better don’t you.

Now for the part you guys all want to read about the hints. Go ahead there is a ton of them.

Hints:

I cannot help you with the grammar section really, if you are good at grammar and know the words there is not much more that I can tell you about it.

However to score high on the math section of the SAT think about it this way the SAT math section is broken up into three sections easy, medium, and hard. If there are 30 questions then the first 10 are easy, second, ten are medium and 3rd 10 hard.

Most people will get the first section right, half of the second section, and very few of the hard. Hence where they lose most of the points.

So if you want to score well then there are certain methods on the easy section your first gut reaction is probably right but on the medium it may be right but check it twice but on the hard if you have a gut instinct to circle on answer cross it out because that is not going to be the answer.

Back solving another tip sometimes they will give you a pair of numbers and you will wants to give an equation to find the answer but if the answer choices are numbers just work through the problem with the given answers.

When back solving always start with C because if the answer is too low then cross out A and B because it goes from lowest to highest on the SAT when the answers are number choices. If you then try D or E if it is right circle that answer if not then it obviously is the other answer

Another tip when working on hard questions cross out any numbers that you see in the question as well like say Bob ran to school 3 miles per hour and 5 miles back and asks you how many miles the run is and gives you a time that it took and the answers are.

A) 3
B) 3 ¼
C) 3 ¾
D) 4
E) 5

You can automatically cross out 4 because that should be you gut instinct and you can cross out 3 and 5 because they are in the problem.

Here another tip you can guess at this stage because you have a 50-50 chance but also the answer would be C because the answer will tend to be closer to you gut instinct in a question like this.

I hope these tips help you but realize that this is not the only thing that the colleges will be looking at when they choose to accept you or not. Realize that this is a company making the exam so that they are obviously in this for money as well. So get a good night sleep and bring a few number twos and a calculator you use regularly with spare batteries and you should do fine. Also, do not forget to eat some brain food before going too.