The Common Sense SAT Workbook
The Unofficial Companion to the Official SAT Study Guide™: Second Edition
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Orientation
1. Learn about Test Structure and How the Test is Scored.
2. Learn about Leaving Questions Blank and Process of
Elimination & Guessing.
3. Based on your college(s) of choice, determine the approximate
number of correct answers needed in each subject to achieve
your goal score.
Critical Reading
1. TEST-TAKING TECHNIQUES. Learn the test-taking
techniques for Sentence Completions and Short & Long
Passages.
2. VOCABULARY. Improve your vocabulary by learning once a set
of 25 prefixes and 20 suffixes, then combine them with new sets
of 10 Latin roots. [For each set of 10 roots, the number of
theoretical word combinations is 25 prefixes x 10 roots x 20
suffixes or 5,000 words.]
-Study for and take any of the twelve Roots Tests (plus eight
review
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Book Details
About the Book
The objective of the Common Sense SAT Workbook is simple: To help as many students as possible improve their SAT scores (Reading, Writing, Math) as much as possible. To achieve this end, the following means are provided: For each subject, a concise synopsis of test-taking techniques to help answer more questions correctly; for Reading, a basic study of Latin prefixes, roots and suffixes to improve vocabulary; for Writing, a complete English primer to learn or review the rules of grammar; and for Math, also a complete primer to learn or review all the skills and operations required for the test. For Writing and Math, each rule, skill or operation is defined, exemplified, proceeded by a set of ten related problems, then cross-referenced against the ten tests within the Official SAT Study Guide™: Second Edition, the only available source for real SATs. Summarily, if a student makes an effort as well as learns from his or her mistakes -- a cornerstone to any good education -- then his or her SAT scores will naturally and significantly increase.
About the Author
Jon C. Freeman, International Gentleman of Leisure, worked independently for six years within the Swiss international school community tutoring students on the SAT. The Common Sense SAT Workbook is his effort to help youth break free from the chains of stultefying static and hype in order to think critically for and positively of themselves.