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.
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.
Plenty of sample tests online.
The repetition will help the kid get into the testing mindset.
Khan Academy free and good and online.
He should probably attend community college. No SAT requirement and you will save a boatload on tuition.
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.
Join IXL math and have him work on skills
Algebra and geometry and word problems
He can assess his area of weakness and track his progress in mastering skills
IXL breaks it down grade by grade, state by state
So if he needs to go back to grade 6 and work forward, he can do it
https://www.ixl.com/math/
If you join Home School Buyers Co Op (free) you can get this program at a discount
Also Khan Academy (free) has video lectures and skill games
https://www.khanacademy.org/
But I would also have him take another test prep course late summer so he can be prepared for timing
My daughter just tools the SAT last Saturday. We bought her an SAT prep book but only opened it on Friday night. She said the test was easy while her boyfriend that took the test with her said it was hard.
Anyway my daughter is a junior and straight A student who takes all honor class including calculus. So taking honor math classes from Freshman helped with math portion of the SAT. Best advice is buying him and SAT study book.
Score is too low for self-study improvement. Get into a SAT prep class or a tutor.
Have him focus on taking the practice tests over and over. If he has the self discipline for this, a pricey tutor is less necessary.
study?
With a sub 1000 score on a 1600 scale (most prep tests go on the old scale that max’es out at 1600) your kid isn’t college material... I read the “doctor” comment and he will get in to a med college if he crams and you are a doctor too... College is 100% indoctrination now and men are discriminated against ... maybe he would be better off becoming a plumber or a HVAC tech.
I would put him on a reading regimen ,, a book a week OR MORE,, you pick them ,, make him LIVE books so that he will instinctively know the answers to the comprehension and word definition trick questions... Just cramming with a tutor teaches nothing but how to pass..