Tips to create a bountiful vegetable garden on Shine AND SAT PREP FOR JUNE 5
In between specific SAT studies, Click the 'Tips' site above to see a video about creating a garden. I am teaching Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; and I will give you much information in the future, on this site, about how to relate such studies to having a wonderful time in your educational pursuits ("pursuit of happiness"). For the upcoming June 5 SAT, I am writing a column to condense the best strategies from all my former columns archived on this blog site. In the meantime, know this: The Question for the Day on the http://www.collegeboard.com/ site is the one best way to spend a few minutes every day in relation to preparing for the test.
When you work on the question for the day, read it from top left, including the title and directions, to the end of the question, passage, or problem. Then glance down to see the format of the answers. Make a solution of the question, or a pattern for the solution, before you try the answers. Know either the type of answer or the answer you are seeking in the multiple choice before you go to the answers. Think of it like this: I am looking for _____ (the answer or, for example, a word that would fit a fill in the blank). Then, choose that answer and mark it on the answer sheet, carefully, without marking stray places. Then, quickly, check the answer by eliminating another one of the choices. This gives you a way to notice if you answered the correct question.
Answering the wrong question is a major source of error. The answer to the wrong question will be one of the choices because the test is designed to test your aptitude. Part of an ability to do well on a test is to recognize that more than one question may be asked about facts given, a passage, or any other type of problem.
The one BEST thing to know about the multiple choice answers on the SAT is that you will choose the correct one efficiently and accurately when you are looking for the answer you know rather than looking for a way to figure out which of the displayed answers is the correct answer. This may seem obvious, but it is not. You have to do the different styles of practice questions over and over to appreciate what I am telling you in this 'BEST' strategy.
When you solve the question for the day, correctly or incorrectly, go back and put the correct answer in. Then VIEW THE QUESTION FOR THE DAY ON THE SCREEN WITH THE CORRECT ANSWER CHECKED AND THE SCREEN EXPLANATION OF THE QUESTION. THE ACTUAL VIEW, LOOKING AT IT--OR HAVING IT DESCRIBED TO YOU IN DETAIL FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED--IS HOW YOU WILL LEARN THE WAY TO MOVE QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY ON THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU DO UNDERSTAND.
This is a BRAIN strategy. Seeing the correct solution and the explanation teaches you the way your brain needs to 'snapshot' this type of problem. A problem with many students is that they do not get IMMEDIATE answers to find out when they are straying from the correct solutions. While you are preparing, get immediate and correct responses to view. As a teacher, I have this issue with homework. I WANT you to see the correct answers immediately. If you use a study guide, such as the excellent Princeton Reviews, do only two or three problems at a time. Then, stop, and look at the correct solutions immediately, along with the explanations.
Come back soon. judiethcarol&rocketcatMay,2010
