SAT English Exam - common challenges
SAT English is challenging for a lot of students, because what they were trained in high school English is totally different from the skills needed to score well on SAT English.
In high school English, students are trained to analyze text such as Shakespeare, novel studies, poetry - in depth with plenty of time to
write their essays.
However, in SAT English, students need a pinpoint the key information with severe time constrain. They need to know where to find key info in the text quickly, and apply them strategically to answer multiple choice questions.
The second challenge are multiple choice questions. When it comes to multiple choice, SAT English exam questions are ambiguous. From the 4 answers, there will be two incorrect answers, and two correct answers, where one answer is more correct than the other. AT QE SAT prep class, we teach strategies to target these types of amibiguity in SAT multiple choice.
Meet the
QE SAT Team
Diana J.
QE English Teacher.
PhD candidate, Literature York University.
6+ years of teaching experience at York (university level) and at QE (high school level).
SAT Prep Sample Lessons:
QE approach to teaching SAT
QE SAT Strategy #12
Pinpoint info in a passage
Know what you are looking for
QE SAT Strategy #15
Tackling
SAT Literature
type questions
What you will get from QE SAT English Prep Class:
- Live lecture on strategy to tackle each types of SAT passages: scientific, literature, data-graphs, biology, ecology. Each type of passage is different in their own difficulty.
- Overall strategies on critical reading - how to extract key information from the passage. How to read SAT passage to efficiently (to optimize time) and not indulge on complex concepts, which is designed to confuse / slow down students.
- Critical analysis on past SAT papers. Going through question by questions and analyze them, so students will learn how to tackle real SAT problems
- SAT Vocab list - we will provide the most common SAT vocab list (~500 words), so that students can focus extensively on the
keywords that matters, and learn how to apply them to SAT exams. We provide a learning plan on SAT vocab.
- Assessment Tests: we provide an assessment test at start, midterm and final. We will mark it accordingly to report the strengths and weakness of the students on each type of passages. This way we can benchmark the improvement process
SAT Prep - English tool box:
SAT Math Exam - common challenges
SAT Math is challenging for a lot of students, because they contain a lot of word problems and questions with multiple concepts combined into one, which require problem solving techniques to dissect and solve.
To perform well in SAT math, the first step is to review all the fundamental concepts under each SAT topic. Merely doing SAT papers over and over again will not work, because the questions change all the time. The students need to know the fundamentals and know how to apply to each case.
SAT Math Exam demands strong problem solving skills from the students. Merely memorizing the equations and steps will not work. Students needs to know how to work backwards, sideways based on the givens and unknown, understand what the question is asking, and find ways to solve the puzzles.
At QE SAT Prep classes, we teach the fundamental first, then show them strategies and problem solving techniques to dissect SAT questions. This include multiple choice strategies, important problem solving techniques specifically for SAT math problems and strategies tailored to each types of questions.
This will optimize the student performance. With good studying and practice, QE students will perform well on SAT Math exams.
What you will get from QE SAT Math Prep Class:
- Live lecture to review all the SAT foundational math topics. This is important for students to have foundational knowledge and learn how to apply to different types of SAT Math questions.
- Strategies to tackle word problems
- Problem solving techniques to tackle difficult SAT math problems
- Strategies to tackle algebraic types of SAT questions
- Strategies to tackle Linear equation types of SAT questions
- Strategies to tackle data modelling types of SAT questions
- Strategies to tackle geometry types of SAT questions
- SAT Math multiple choice strategies
- Assessment Tests: we provide an assessment test at start, midterm and final. We will mark it accordingly to report the strengths and weakness of the students on each type of passages. This way we can benchmark the improvement process
SAT Prep - Math tool box:
