SAT Question for the DAY Practice
1. Begin your folder of study materials.
In your word processing program, open a folder of study materials.
Load in a document from February 17, 2010, with the vocabulary: isolated, capital, autonomous. Add the proper nouns: Tibet, Tibetan Himalayas, and Lhasa.
2. Open your day with the SAT question for the Day. You can put a feed from the site onto your tool bar so the entire family can see the logical study guides from ten minutes a day spent here.
If you prefer to spend only five minutes and make this a regular part of your day, do this:
a. Use the feed for the question of the day to go to the question for the day.
b. Use your strategies for that particular type of question.
c. Mark your answer.
d. Look at the hint.
e. Is this your final answer?
f. Submit the answer.
g. Look at the explanation, even if you get it correct. If you are correct, you want to imprint your pattern of success, as well as the confirmation of your knowledge.
Go back to the question and try again, if you made a mistake. This time, use the strategies for this type of question. Notice what works best for you.
Notice that in every type of question, there is a lot of extra information and refined vocabulary.
The SAT practice questions are exactly like the questions on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The practice questions are often, in some cases always, questions formerly used on SAT tests.
Here are the strategies to use later in the day related to the practice question.
1. Take vocabulary words from the question and the possible answers. Write them down. Make PowerPoint cards for the words.
2. Write some of the information in the question in your own words.
3. Notice the exact way the question and the possible answers are presented. This is the way that type of question will be presented on the test you take.
4. Print out a sample of the exact way the question looks, with the labels A-D under the underlined portions, a period at the end of the sentence, then No Error underlined with an ‘E’ label underneath.
5. Use plain paper or index cards and copy today’s question with the underlining and the A-D, and E labels. Use a pen or crayon or magic marker. Make the pattern of the question very neat and vivid. Begin to see this style of question on a blackboard or ‘whiteboard’ in your mind.
