What is your favorite activity?

• Why?• How do you feel?• What do you notice?• What do you think about?

What is the SAT and how hard is it?

• Made by average people (ETS)• Specialize in tricking and complicating tests• Measures ability to take tests, basic

knowledge, working under pressure• 100 other kids in line

Your Goal

• Scored from 200-800• Average is approximately 500• Check on Pacing Chart how many correct

answers you need (raw score)• Resource! www.Collegeboard.com• Scoring 1 point for correct; -1/4 incorrect; 0

points for leaving blank

Basic Tips

• POE• Pencil to Paper• The Guessing Game• Mark your answers

What is the capital of Uzbekistan?

• A. Washington DC• B. Paris• C. Moscow• D. Madrid• E. Tashkent

Advanced Tips

• Order of Questions = Order of Difficulty• Feeling Good vs. Feeling Right• Average Joe• Broken compass; Joe is your partner– All math, and sentence completions

• Be right; not fast

Advanced Tips

• Pace to reach your goal.• Question type * goal = approach• Do not be Joe

What would Joe pick?

• Repeated numbers from question• Easy answers• Hunches• Least and Greatest Answers• “Cannot be determined”

How many math questions?

• Part 1: 20 multiple choice – 25 minutes• Part 2: 8 multiple choice/10 grid in – 25

minutes• Part 3: 16 multiple choice – 20 minutes

19. Dennis walked to school at an average speed of 3 miles an hour and jogged back along the same route at 5 miles an hour. If his total traveling time was 1 hour, what was the total number of miles in the round trip?• A. 3• B. 3 1/8 • C. 3 ¾• D. 4• E. 5

1. Dennis walked to school at an average speed of 3 miles an hour and jogged back along the same route at 5 miles an hour. If his total traveling time was 1 hour, what was the total number of miles in the round trip?

• A. .01• B. .1• C. 3 ¾• D. 1000• E. 10000

In Summary

• Problems start easy and end difficult• All questions are weighted the same, do not

waste time on hard questions if you still have easy ones to answer.

Math Concepts

• Arithmetic (dealing with numbers)• Algebra (dealing with variables)• Geometry (shapes and graphs)• Statistics (charts and data)• Logic and Sequences

What would Joe do?

• Choose the easy answers

• Repeats• Least/greatest• “It cannot be

determined”

Principles to Difficult Questions in the Math Section

• Trust your hunches on easy questions• Double check your hunches on medium

questions• Eliminate the Joe answers on hard questions• Stay disciplined on the hard questions

Hard questions = Hard Answers

Hard questions = Hard answers

Simple Operations = Wrong Answers

Least/Greatest

In summary

• The average Joe gets easy questions right and hard ones wrong

• Eliminate obvious, simple answers to hard questions• Eliminate repeated number answers from question• Questions that ask for least or greatest answer to a

problem, eliminate the least or greatest answer from choices

• Joe is to guide you not to the answer, but away from incorrect answers.