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This is a truly individualized & personalized program, where the tutor assesses the student's strengths & weakness. Once the assessment is made, the tutor begins targeting student's needs, and expectations, and tailoring the strategies to their strengths, and overcoming weaknesses.


Reading Section:

Student & Tutor start out with a solid review of vocabulary work with sentence completions.  The process then continues from easy to medium to hard work with describing the value of answering each question, but also of employing intelligent test taking strategies of trying to narrow one's responses to two, and eliminating the third. The tutor will review the questions with answers, do more for repetition purposes with root words, etc.  On the reading passages begin to place focus on critical reading strategies and again concentrate on the questions.

Our SAT Prep Tutor prepares the student for two type of questions on the Critical Reading Section.

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Sentence Completion Questions- 19 Questions

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Help increase the student's SAT Vocabulary

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Work and increase the student's logical sentence structures

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Passage-based Reading questions - 48 Questions

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The reading are anywhere from 100 to 850 words. The SAT Prep Tutor present strategies on focusing  and concentration of the reading passage for successful completion of the questions

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Questions of Vocabulary in a passage. Tutor will educate the student on how to decipher words by the root or origin.

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The tutor will focus on meaning of the passage and then stimulate critical reason on what the deeper meanings of what the author was attempting to express. They will help the student help identify cause & effect, inferences and recognize the main idea .


Writing Section:

Student & Tutor focus on the three parts of the grammar, improving paragraphs, and improving sentences.  The concentration is on test strategy toward accentuating their strengths, and overcoming weaknesses.  On the essay portion, an evaluation of student writing style, and practice on the needs of a strong essay.

Remember there are no short cuts on achieving a  full success on the essay portion of the SAT Test. Points are scored for insight, development of  the point of view with the appropriate reasons and examples. How well you use language to develop your ideas. Our SAT Tutors teach you techniques to focus for you to read your entire assignment on the Writing section. for example: we help the student imagine themselves talking to the author  of the issue presented as your assignment on he test. Do you agree or disagree? These are some of the focusing techniques used to help in the writing section for full success. We help the student not to oversimplify their work, but rather to create one or two well-developed thoughtful ideas or example.

Our SAT Tutors educate the student on :

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Essay :

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Develop a point of view

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Support the point of view with well-developed reasons and examples from a reading, studies, experience, or observations

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Use the conventions of standard written English

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Improving Paragraphs:

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Be able to edit and revise sentences of a paragraph. In the context of the ideas in the essay.

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Learn how to organize and develop coherent and logical paragraphs

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Improving Sentences:( Indentifying Sentence Errors)

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Recognize and correct faults in usage & sentence structure

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Recognize effective sentences

Math Section:

Student & Tutor focus on the four parts of the Mathematical Section. This section of the test covers Number & Operations, Algebra & Functions, Geometry & Measurement and Data Analysis, Statistics, & Probability. The concentration is on test strategies to assist the student achieving the best score. The tutor help with techniques & tactics on how to achieve the best results on answering 44 Multiple choice questions and 10 student-produced response questions.

Our SAT Prep Tutor prepares the student for two type of questions on the Mathematical Section.

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Multiple Choice:

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Techniques on new sights on solving the mathematical multiple choice questions

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Student-Produced Responses

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Remember points on the SAT Math Section are not given off for wrong answers

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This can be the place where student lose valuable time. Tutor help the student try to eliminate this problem with strategies


MESSAGE -  We recommend to give yourself at least 6 weeks to studies for the SAT Test. More time to prepare is always better.

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