2. What is your favorite activity? Why? How do you feel? What do you notice? What do you think about?

3. 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

4. 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.comwww.Collegeboard.com Scoring 1 point for correct; -1/4 incorrect; 0 points for leaving blank

5. Basic Tips POE Pencil to Paper The Guessing Game Mark your answers

6. What is the capital of Uzbekistan? A. Washington DC B. Paris C. Moscow D. Madrid E. Tashkent

7. 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

8. Advanced Tips Pace to reach your goal. Question type * goal = approach Do not be Joe

9. What would Joe pick? Repeated numbers from question Easy answers Hunches Least and Greatest Answers “Cannot be determined”

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. Math Concepts Arithmetic (dealing with numbers) Algebra (dealing with variables) Geometry (shapes and graphs) Statistics (charts and data) Logic and Sequences

15. What would Joe do? Choose the easy answers Repeats Least/greatest “It cannot be determined”

16. 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

17. Hard questions = Hard Answers

18. Hard questions = Hard answers

19. Simple Operations = Wrong Answers

20. Least/Greatest

21. 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.