act/sat scores back session
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ACT/SAT®
SCORES BACK SESSION
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Truths and Misconceptions
AGENDASimilarities and Differences
Improving Your Scores
PRESENTED BY:
College Planning Evening
Sonia DinhSAT/ACT Tutor
The Princeton Review
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TRUTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS
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Admission tests.. True False
… measure intelligence?
… can be used to award aid?
… reflect your GPA in high school?
… predict your college GPA?
… can be prepared for?
… should be prepared for?
… test what you’ve learned in HS?
WHAT DO THESE TESTS MEASURE?
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2. High School Curriculum
3. Test Scores
1. Grades
TOP FACTORS FOR
FIRST TIME FRESHMEN
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
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TESTS
AT-A
GLANCE
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BOTH THE ACT AND
SAT HAVE:
• Over 3 hours of testing time
• Limited time per question
• Answer choices (mostly)
• Math, Reading, and Grammar
questions
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SAT SCORING
ACT SCORING
MATH 200 – 800
READING AND WRITING 200 – 800
TOTAL 400 – 1600
ENGLISH 1-36
MATH 1-36
READING 1-36
SCIENCE 1-36
COMPOSITE 1-36
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WHAT ABOUT THE ESSAY?
• Fewer than 20 schools require the
essay
• The University of California
system contains nine of those
schools.
• We recommend you take the
essay, but don’t sweat it!
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IMPROVING YOUR SCORES
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WHAT ARE SOME COMMON MISTAKES?
Answering questions too quickly
Not understanding what to do
Misreading the problem
Doing work in your head
Careless answers
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ceton Review Methods
If Claire is C years old and is
6 years younger than Alan,
in terms of C, how old will
Alan be in 3 years?
A. C-6
B. C-3
C.C+3
D.C+9
E. C+5
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STRATEGY:
PLUGGING IN
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MATH STRATEGY: PLUGGING IN
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GRAMMAR STRATEGY: PRECISION
Caesar’s armies spoke Latin, and the British natives spoke Celtic; Old English did not arrive in Britain until Germanic Tribes invaded in the 5th century and they became dominant.
A. No change
B. Some of them
C. those
D. Germanic languages
Be specific with pronouns.
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QUESTIONS?
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