How to prepare and take the SAT

1. BY LIN, YUNHUA How to prepare andtake the SAT

2. What is SAT? • The SAT Test is a standardized test that is required for college admission by many colleges and universities in the United States. • The whole name of SAT is Scholastic Assessment Test.

3. SAT 1 and 2 • Many people didn’t know SAT 1 is a different test than SAT 2. • Most people are aware of the SAT 1 test. • The SAT I is the general SAT, is accepted as an admissions requirement by almost all colleges and universities and is generally more popular with Eastern colleges than it is with Western schools. • The SAT II, or the SAT Subject Tests, isn't required by most universities (except in California).

4. What is SAT testing to? • The SAT I tests reading (in the form of sentence completion and passage-based questions), writing (through an essay and questions that ask you to identify grammar, punctuation, and construction errors), and math skills (arithmetic, geometry, and algebra). • The SAT II tests individual subjects, ranging from literature to biology to U.S. history to Japanese.

5. Choose the subject of SAT II • Each person could choose 2~3 subject to test at SAT II. • Which subject tested by SAT II is based by you own choice. It means that the specific college has specific requirements. • Such as Harvard University, it needs students’ scores of biology of SAT II. Therefore you need to take the subject– biology. • Chinese immigrants are usually good at Chemistry and Physics. My suggestion is that if you are good at thesesubject you can just take the test and find the related college to apply for.

6. How much should you prepare for a SAT • At least over 1000 hours to prepare SAT. • You need to start practices for SAT at least half year before you take the SAT. • You also need give yourself a half year after taking the SAT to apply for college.

7. What you need to prepare for SAT? • For immigrants, the workbooks of critical reading and mathematic are necessary, workbook forwriting areoptional. • If you think you could have a great score at SAT I, you could also buy workbooks for SAT II subjects. • The Tutorial class is also a good choice for higher your scores. • Most importantly, you own efforts determine your score.

8. SAT Registration Steps(part1) • The SAT Reasoning Test and Subject Tests are considered by most high school students to be quite arduous. The good news is that it is relatively easy to register for. • Attention: Plan out which SAT tests you plan to take during high school. Different colleges have different testing requirements, so be sure to learn the requirements of all the colleges you are interested in and schedule accordingly. For example, if the college requires a Reasoning Test and three Subject Tests, be sure to begin testing in the spring of your junior year.

9. SAT Registration Steps(part2) • There are three different ways this can be done: • Visit the SAT website, http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/reg.html, and click Register Now. Follow all the steps that are described to you. The process is very simple and clear. • Register by mail. Go see your school Guidance Counselor or principal and obtain a copy of the application that you can fill out and send in. Fill it out as instructed and mail the application and check to the posted address. (Never send paper money in the mail.) • Register by calling their phone number: 1-609-771-7600

10. SAT Time Date 2012-2013 (part)

11. What attitude should you have whenyou prepare or take the SAT? • First, you need to calm down. Don’t be so nerves whether you are preparing or taking the test. • Except the practices of SAT, you also need to have some entertainments to make you relax. • Correcting your opinion, failing at the SAT doesn’t mean you are a loser in your future life.

12. Thank you • Be careful when you take the test. • I wish you could get the point you like. BYE BYE!