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Our SAT Prep
HACK SAT is a clinic that seeks to disprove common myths around how the highest standardized test scores are reached and provide students with the strategies and test prep materials that will help them reach their goal scores.
During the summer before my junior year, I did a lot of research before choosing how I would prep for the SAT, and I was amazed at the quantity of free, powerful material available online as well as the tremendous amount of misinformation that surrounded the test. Most students are unsure as to what exactly they can do to raise their score because they believe that SAT scores are more or less static, indicative of one’s innate intelligence or natural ability. Many think that if they scored 1150, then that must mean they are an 1150-type-of-student, and this could not be farther from the truth.
When I took the test earlier this year, I scored a 1550 (200 points higher than what I scored during the beginning of my sophomore year) and after seeing how my friends struggled to sort through all the myths and bad advice surrounding the SAT, I wanted to share what I had learned.
How to sign up for a clinic
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During our sessions, you will learn
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Why not all test prep material was created equal
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How and why many prep programs/ test books, despite being well known, consistently set students up for disappointment
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How to identify and avoid material and advice that can actually lower your score
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Learn which 2 books were the ones that helped raise our scores 200 points
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To change your perspective on the test
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Taking full responsibility of your prep
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Why this will make the test easier to take, make questions less confusing, and help you increase your score
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Why is the SAT is unlike other high school tests? Howshould you approach it
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Why grades and test scores are not always correlated
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Which common misconceptions are stunting your score
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Why every single question in the Reading and Writing sections has a single, non-negotiable answer that can be directly backed up by a single quote in the passage
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How and why all the reading passages (science/history/literature/paired) can essentially be approached in the same way
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Why your Math score does not depend on whether you're in AP Calculus or not
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How the post-test diagnostics more often than not mislead students who are trying to identify weaknesses
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Why some questions appear to require prior-knowledge (and why they never actually do)
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