SAT Exam Secrets- How to Ace the SAT Test

SAT Exam Secrets Study Guide

Updated for New SAT Test Format

"How to Ace the SAT Reasoning Test, using our easy step-by-step SAT test study guide, without weeks and months of endless studying..."

If you need help for the SAT II Subject Tests, please go here for information on the SAT II Subject Tests.

Dear Friend,

On a beautiful late spring afternoon, this past year, a young woman received some devastating news. She had just gotten back her SAT test score. It wasn't what she had hoped for. In fact, it wasn't even close to her expectations and what she thought her 4.0 grade point average would help her score on the SAT test.

The worst part was that she knew that she could never get into the university she had planned to go to with an SAT test score that low.

Then she remembered her friends and felt even worse. All of her closest high school friends had already gotten their SAT test scores back and had already been accepted into the university they all planned to attend together. She had been procrastinating about taking the SAT test, because she hated standardized tests, and this only confirmed her hatred.

"Why do you have to take the SAT test to get into college?" she angrily wondered.

She didn't look forward to having to tell her embarrassing news to her friends. "What would they think of her?" she thought, eyes brimming with tears, as she imagined her friends going together off to college without her and the isolation and exclusion of being left behind.

How to Solve the Problem

Unfortunately, this hypothetical situation occurs all the time. Someone thought they were going to a prestigious university, told all of their friends, made plans for the future, picked out a degree, and then got an embarrassing reality check from their SAT test score.

The SAT Reasoning Test is quite simply an objective assessment of a test taker's requisite foundation of knowledge and skills.

SAT test scores are used by the College Board as a uniform standard of qualification. While it may not be fair, all of a person's plans for the future may be dependent upon needing a certain SAT test score.

That is the whole purpose of our SAT Exam Secrets study guide: to give test takers the keys to understand how to succeed on the SAT test.

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If you'd like to get the SAT test score you deserve, to quit worrying about whether your SAT test score is "good enough," and to beat the test taking game, then this might be the most important message you read this year.

Our comprehensive SAT 1 Reasoning Test study guide is written by our SAT test experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept you need to know to ace your SAT test. Our original research into the SAT Reasoning Test, offered by the College Board, reveals specific content areas and skills that are critical for you to know on the SAT test. We've taken that information and developed a study guide that is guaranteed to help you be successful on the SAT test.

Now, we know you may be skeptical, so let us give you three good reasons we can back up what we claim:

Three Reasons To Believe What We Say

Reason one:

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Some academic studies have revealed that test takers do not really benefit from traditional test preparation. But we knew there had to be a solution- if test takers were not doing well on the SAT test despite high intelligence, there had to be a set of secret keys to the test that would open the door of success for these test takers.

We believe we have succeeded in finding the secret keys of this exam. What we found was surprising, and in some cases ridiculously simple once explained to the average test taker.

We put our findings together in a thorough, concise study guide that we believe allows any test taker, at any skill level, to improve his or her results dramatically with a minimum of effort.

Reason three:

We created this product in part because we were frustrated by the options available to test takers who really wanted to do well on the SAT test.

A common approach is to TEACH the material, instead of TEACHING THE TEST. That's not necessarily good enough for the SAT test- you have to know how to apply the knowledge. Most test takers already have a general knowledge of what will be covered on the exam.

One reason some test takers do well on test day is that they have made the critical connection between the material they learned and how to use that material to succeed on the SAT test.

Our guide addresses the difference between merely knowing the material and knowing how to use the material to perform on test day.

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Our 5-step process that uses a "phased" approach to the use of study aids and practice tests
How procrastination can kill your chance of success, and what to do about it
How to know when you've studied as much as you need to- and why we think some people should spend LESS time studying
The Top 20 things you should take care of within 24 hours of your test- use this list as a checklist to make sure you've taken care of the "little things" in addition to studying hard
How to predict the right answer before you see the answer choices- and how to prevent wrong answers from "polluting" your mind and tempting you into a trap designed by the test writers
Why answers that "sound" correct are often wrong- and how to tell the difference between right answers and clever-sounding traps
Our "benchmark" method for deciding which answer choice to pick
How random bits of information often "give away" the right answer in questions
How to "milk the question" for clues to the right answer even if you have no idea what it is asking about
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Do you know what a "hedge phrase" is? Learn why looking for these key "weasel words" can help identify correct answers
Why "new information" in answer choices almost always means that the answer choice is wrong- and how to avoid this trick planted by clever test writers
Learn to avoid this time-draining mistake on tests- why technical terms you don't know can be a major stumbling block and waste precious time, and how to work around them
The secret to using contextual clues to make important distinctions between right and wrong answer choices
Two situations where you should NOT check your answers thoroughly
How to avoid careless mistakes by using our quick "double check" system that will more than pay for itself relative to the time it will take you
Test writers will often quote directly from the question in an answer- learn whether this is something you should trust or avoid
Why "extreme statements" in answer choices are dead giveaways for wrong answers- find out how to detect the subtle differences between reasonable answers and those that are almost always wrong
Learn how to group your answer choices into "families" that often narrows down the pool of correct answers- this is a quick way to immediately eliminate one or two answer choices and increase your odds of getting the question right

Now, you're probably wondering how and why we can do all those things.

Let us explain.

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SAT Exam Secrets is our exclusive collection of tips and information specially selected to give you the best results on the SAT test for the least time spent studying. It's written in everyday language and is easy to use.

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Time Is Your Greatest Enemy
Guessing is Not Guesswork
Study Smarter, Not Harder
Make the SAT Test Work For You
Test Yourself

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Determining the Relationships
Making Strategic Eliminations
Understanding Word Types
Finding the Right Opportunities
When Truth Doesn't Equal Correctness
Avoiding the Trap of Familiarity
Making Logic Work for You
Skimming Techniques to Save Time
Keys to the Sentence Completion Sections

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The Easiest Math Review You'll Ever Read
Solving for Variables
How to Read Word Problems
Keeping Probability Simple
Using the Right Formulas
Graphing for Success
Breezing Through Ratios
Understanding Line Plotting
The Logical Approach to the Student Produced Response Questions

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Keys to Quick Improvements
Recognizing Not So Obvious Errors
The Logical Path to Churning out an Essay
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How to Recognize Parallelism
Secrets to Using Good Punctuation
Clearing Up Word Confusion
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Strength Through Diversity
Tips on Weeding Your Garden

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Advanced Reading Comprehension
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