Posted on 06/06/2017 6:23:46 AM PDT by taxcontrol
My son got his SAT pre-test results back and he has a little bit of work ahead of him. Did ok on English but needs to brush up on his math. Overall score was a 960, so I am looking for recommendations as to a course of study for the summer. He is going to be a senior next year, and currently is a 2.9 / 3.0 student. He will be taking his SAT in spring of 2018.
Barron’s book on SAT.
Get a good tutor if you can.
My teacher mother’s recommendation from decades of experience.
WHY do you want to send him to college ?
Search for previous SAT tests that have been released.
Tell him that math is black and white.
There is only a true answer and a wrong answer; there is no in-between that might be OK.
Khan Academy has free prep online.
Khan Academy - online, free.
Our school had an SAT prep class that met once a week for 8 weeks, and included a couple of practice exams.
Improved my son’s score significantly. Practice, practice, practice.
Sometimes taking the edge off the intensity of the testing process itself is a huge help. Taking practice exams in a proctored, classroom setting does that.
Amen to that!
My son wants to be a doctor though has not yet decided on which medical field to enter. If there is an alternative path to pre-med, PhD, residence and then medical license .... I am all ears.
Right now, this is the only path that I know.
trade school.
A better question would be “Should he go to college?”.
He would probably be better served learning a skill for a job that has to be done “here”; that can’t be outsourced to China or India or God-only-knows-where.
Plumber, electrician, mechanic, refrigeration repair...
That’s what I’m telling my grandson.
1. Have him look through Princeton and Barron’s books on the SAT.
2. Have him learn 10 SAT vocab words a week
3. Have him learn grammatical mistakes.
4. The math section on the SAT is strange, as it’s the same in the ACT, and GRE. All the questions are answerable without complex calculation or formulaic answering. If you can feel the answer by estimating it in your head, you usually can answer it correctly, very quickly. This is why common core, for the crappy education it is, stressed estimation so much - it’s the key to standardized testing. Many times math puzzles and anything that encourages estimation will help.
Hold him back a year.
Get a tutor. Math is progressive. There is no free lunch.
If he moves forward, scoring low, he will get clobbered, and never catch up, waste his time.
He needs study skills, you have failed to provide. That means always being one course ahead. Right now he should be reviewing next years’ courses.
Needs to outline every class.
Needs to ally with the best who will tolerate him.
That is how the 4.0 gpa’s do it.
I’m a university math lecturer. High school GPA means NOTHING. The amount of work required to get an A in college is ten times what it is in high school.
Go to youtube and find a prep course with online tests and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.
Plenty of sample tests online.
The repetition will help the kid get into the testing mindset.
Khan Academy free and good and online.
Culinary school!
He should probably attend community college. No SAT requirement and you will save a boatload on tuition.
Pharmacy School.
denounce the SAT test as a white privilege shackle, holding down the urban youth of today. write an essay on the oppression of culture identity, and the white bias that the SAT scores signify.
good luck.
my son didn’t show the discipline with his grades to get into a four year college, so we sent him to community college to work on that. it is a great option.
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