From Quora: My Answer to "What is the best advice for a sophomore, like PSAT and college advice?"8/5/2020 Start studying for the SAT and ACT. SAT study will also prepare you for the PSAT, which is a watered-down version of the SAT. Try the Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide, which is the 30th edition of Barron’s SAT. The 28th or 29th edition would also do. The ACT’s official study guide would work for ACT prep, as would the Manhattan Prep 5-lb Book of ACT Problems. You should also use the Khan Academy SAT prep materials SAT | Test prep | Khan Academy (they’re good, they’re free, and they’re the official SAT prep materials recommended by the College Board, the maker of the SAT), as well as the free SAT practice tests you can download from the College Board website. SAT Practice Tests
You can use my free YouTube channel for more help with SAT, ACT, and other standardized test prep: John Linneball Tutoring Seriously consider what you’d like to do for a living. Law? Politics? Medicine? Engineering? Fashion? Entertainment? Anything is possible, but it’s best to look for a career that appeals to your academic, personality, and social strengths, and which also appeal to your interests. Ask yourself what you’d do for very little money and still be happy. Then look for careers that let you do that thing. Start looking into what colleges are good places to get training for the kind of career you want. Hope this helps! Click here! Notes for “Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide Chapter 6-J: Triangles” Video What We’re Covering Here. The exercises at the end of Chapter 6-J: Triangles, in Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide (30th Edition of the Barron’s SAT study guide) – pp. 574-576. A few other relevant “fun facts.” Whatever else comes up as I’m recording this. If you like this video, please don’t forget to give this a “thumbs up,” subscribe to my channel, and click on the little bell in the top right corner for notifications. Who’d Like This: High school and college students studying for the SAT and ACT, especially those using the Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide (30th Edition of the Barron’s SAT study guide) or the 28th or 29th editions of the same guide. Most of these math problems stay the same, but they may have been moved around from earlier editions, so I can’t guarantee the best results for earlier editions. If you’re using an edition earlier than Barron’s New SAT (made for the SATs used since 2016), you really should buy a new Barron’s book. Source Material For this Video: Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide (30th Edition of the Barron’s SAT study guide) Barron’s Educational Services, New York, NY. My general knowledge and what I could access/verify using Google. Links for References/Links to Relevant Topics: Free, Full-Length, Official College Board SAT Practice Tests. https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/practice/full-length-practice-tests A Few More Notes/Requests: Please "like" this video and subscribe to my channel if you liked it! This is the best way to help me, and it costs you NOTHING. I get ad money if I get 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in a year. I have a new Patreon page! Here's the link if you'd like to donate, and if you have ideas about what I should offer to Patreon patrons. Please let me know - I have no idea what you, my audience, would like to see there. https://www.patreon.com/JohnLinneball If you found this video helpful, why not consider helping me make more videos (each one of these takes hours to make!) by donating a couple of dollars or more through my PayPal at https://paypal.me/johnlinneball ? I'll never CHARGE to see my videos, but I'd appreciate your support. Thanks in advance! From Quora: My Answer to "What are some good prep materials and resources for the ACT and SAT?"8/5/2020 Try the Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide, which is the 30th edition of Barron’s SAT. The 28th or 29th edition would also do. The ACT’s official study guide would work for ACT prep, as would the Manhattan Prep 5-lb Book of ACT Problems. You should also use the Khan Academy SAT prep materials SAT | Test prep | Khan Academy (they’re good, they’re free, and they’re the official SAT prep materials recommended by the College Board, the maker of the SAT), as well as the free SAT practice tests you can download from the College Board website. SAT Practice Tests
You can use my free YouTube channel for more help with SAT, ACT, and other standardized test prep: John Linneball Tutoring Hope this helps! From Quora: My Answer to "What is the best advice for a sophomore, like PSAT and college advice?"8/5/2020 Start studying for the SAT and ACT. SAT study will also prepare you for the PSAT, which is a watered-down version of the SAT. Try the Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide, which is the 30th edition of Barron’s SAT. The 28th or 29th edition would also do. The ACT’s official study guide would work for ACT prep, as would the Manhattan Prep 5-lb Book of ACT Problems. You should also use the Khan Academy SAT prep materials SAT | Test prep | Khan Academy (they’re good, they’re free, and they’re the official SAT prep materials recommended by the College Board, the maker of the SAT), as well as the free SAT practice tests you can download from the College Board website. SAT Practice Tests
You can use my free YouTube channel for more help with SAT, ACT, and other standardized test prep: John Linneball Tutoring Seriously consider what you’d like to do for a living. Law? Politics? Medicine? Engineering? Fashion? Entertainment? Anything is possible, but it’s best to look for a career that appeals to your academic, personality, and social strengths, and which also appeal to your interests. Ask yourself what you’d do for very little money and still be happy. Then look for careers that let you do that thing. Start looking into what colleges are good places to get training for the kind of career you want. Hope this helps! Yes. They can request accommodations for the tests if they need them, but they should do so far in advance.
No, not as long as you do some extracurricular activity. Music, art, physical fitness, volunteer work, and paid work , are all activities that would impress a college admissions committee.
Yes. You don’t know that they will be optional for ALL top US universities, so it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Start studying for the SAT and ACT. SAT study will also prepare you for the PSAT, which is a watered-down version of the SAT. Try the Barron’s SAT Premium Study Guide, which is the 30th edition of Barron’s SAT. The 28th or 29th edition would also do. The ACT’s official study guide would work for ACT prep, as would the Manhattan Prep 5-lb Book of ACT Problems. You should also use the Khan Academy SAT prep materials SAT | Test prep | Khan Academy (they’re good, they’re free, and they’re the official SAT prep materials recommended by the College Board, the maker of the SAT), as well as the free SAT practice tests you can download from the College Board website. SAT Practice Tests You can use my free YouTube channel for more help with SAT, ACT, and other standardized test prep: John Linneball Tutoring I made a video about what you should do in middle school to ensure you’re on the right track to get into the best college for you: (Click here) In any event, you should take time to read many books, magazines, newspapers (or their online equivalents). It’s a good idea to start with “the classics”- the books most people have had to read for high school and college for a LONG time. You can find a list of the classics on the Cliff’s Notes website CliffsNotes Study Guides | Book Summaries, Test Preparation & Homework Help | Written by Teachers. If they bothered to make a summary book for any particular book, it’s a “classic” for our purposes. Read them with a dictionary or Google (phone or PC) to look up words you don’t know. It’s good to know the actual dictionary definitions of words instead of just always guessing them from their context. It also pays to study word roots, suffixes, and prefixes, so you can figure out words you don’t know on the SAT or ACT. Start doing extracurricular activities such as volunteer work (it shows you are community-minded), paid work (it shows you care about meeting goals, taking care of yourself, and possibly helping support your family, etc.), and things such as school sports, the school paper, yearbook, theater, etc. 8th grade, the last year of middle school, is a great time to try things like theater, a sport you haven’t played before, a new musical instrument, etc., so you have time to learn them well before college if you like them, and you haven’t wasted really crucial high school time on them if you find you don’t like them. Colleges will take your activities much more seriously if you’ve done them all through high school, and didn’t just start them right before applying to college. Start practicing SAT and ACT math problems, not just to practice for those tests, but to stay sharp for your high school math and science courses. You’ll want the skills you need for those tests when you take harder math (algebra, trigonometry, statistics) in high school so you don’t have to learn them in college. Seriously consider what you’d like to do for a living. Law? Politics? Medicine? Engineering? Fashion? Entertainment? Anything is possible, but it’s best to look for a career that appeals to your academic, personality, and social strengths, and which also appeal to your interests. Ask yourself what you’d do for very little money and still be happy. Then look for careers that let you do that thing. Start looking into what colleges are good places to get training for the kind of career you want. Make sure you talk with your teachers, counselors, supervisors, coaches, etc. about your goals, and ask for advice. Really listen to what these people tell you, even if you don’t like what they say. These people have more experience than you do, so they’re probably right, but don’t be afraid to ask other adults if you don’t like what you’ve been told. The more you share with (and listen to) adults, the better your relationship with them will be, the more likely you will be to receive “the benefit of the doubt” if you’re in a sketchy situation at school, and the better recommendations you will get when it’s time to apply to college. Teachers, coaches, counselors, and supervisors are human beings - they’re going to work harder for students they see as “friends” than just run-of-the-mill, average students/athletes/volunteers/workers. Hope this helps! Maybe 5th or 6th grade? I took a math SAT when I was in 6th grade (placement for an advanced math program), and scored in the 400s, so I didn’t get ALL the questions wrong. I think some basic arithmetic problems on the SAT could be solved by a 4th grader, but certainly a 5th grader, with only a public school education, should be able to do the simplest arithmetic and geometry problems on the SAT.
Only a bit, since I was already against reopening the schools. It’s scary that having kids there less than a full school day, with the school nowhere near capacity (I assume) is enough to spread COVID-19 fairly effectively.
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