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Slowly But Surely, Filling Up the Site with SAT Tips and Resources

Someone might as well benefit from all those SATs I took last year.

Resource and Tips pages will continue to be filled up over the next few days (weeks.....months)....Check out the links on the righthand navigation bar for updates.

And the Books page (my personal passion), well, stay tuned.  If I learned nothing else last year, I have a visceral understanding now that everything takes more time than I think it will.

 

  1. Score Decline: College Board Report on SAT Score Decline, 1977. Think: Mad Men meets the SAT. Fun to read...nostalgia.
  2. Fair Test Rules: The SAT Standard Testing Room Manual published by ETS. READ PAGES 1-11 before taking the SAT (CAPs and BOLD on purpose, for emphasis). Know your rights as a test taker. You deserve a fair test experience. Not knowing your rights could be reflected in your score (said from firsthand experience). Read this post for more details.
  3. Looking for your old SAT Scores?  Click on this College Board link and follow the directions.
  4. 3 FREE Official College Board SATs: January 2006 SAT, October 2005 SAT, and March 2005 SAT.
  5. Best SAT Sites: Credible information without having to wade through the College Board's site (overwhelming) or College Confidential (the wild west): Erik the Red, PWNtheSAT, Ultimate SAT Verbal.

 

More more more tk soon.....

 

llustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis

 
7 Comments | posted January 18th, 2012
 

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Study Tools

I'm obsessed with "supplies"  and am pretty sure the right ones help me study better.

When I'm really working it, these are my essentials:

 

  • The Pomodoro Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.  Great for those of us who need "task orienting."
  • Moleskin Pocket Notebooks, to catch all of those brilliant little thoughts that I don't want to escape.  It usually takes me 2 or 3 incorrect orders to find the ones I really like (i.e. pocket size, lined, soft cover).

 

 

Illustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis

 
4 Comments | posted May 11th, 2011
 

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I Love Charts

 

In fact, I just discovered a blog called,  I Love Charts.

While I can take no credit for the creation of the beautiful and extremely helpful charts on my new Charts & Graphs page (permanently residing on bottom righthand column of this site), I do plan on updating them frequently and adding variables such as daily progress, time of day, etc.

 
Leave a Comment | posted April 27th, 2011
 

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Charts & Graphs

I have been obsessed with trying to figure out how to chart and graph my SAT progress.

  1. I think graphs going in the right direction are a motivator.
  2. I want to see if variables such as time of day, food, sleep and exercise have any impact on my scores.

Unfortunately these charts and graphs turned out to be harder (for me) to make than I would have anticipated.  That said, I think I've got it:

This is just the beginning of the charting madness.....MUCH more to come.

Next up -- figuring out Daytum.

 

Illustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis

 
Leave a Comment | posted April 15th, 2011
 

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