this is super helpful! are you planning on doing this for test #6 as well?

@SetteleTutoring

3 ай бұрын

Yes I did it last night. Just need to stitch the sections together and watch it myself to make sure there were no glitches. Should be posted later today!

@aleksa802

3 ай бұрын

@@SetteleTutoring thanks so much for replying, appreciate it!

Mike, you are a gifted teacher. I am proud to be a paid subscriber, and I am enjoying the perks! Keep up the great work! I am studying with my son, who will be taking the PSAT 8/9 in October. Your explanations of high school-level grammar and reading challenges are understandable for him and have been a fabulous resource for us. Thanks a million!

@SetteleTutoring

19 күн бұрын

Thank you for those kind words! For the 8/9 PSAT, the stakes are pretty low. It’s a good baseline for where he might be, but there are some math topics that won’t be on it at all, and the overall difficulty should be much easier. It’s a good way to see if there are any big gaps in his fundamentals, though. Those are definitely things you’d want to work on before the SAT comes around during junior year. Algebra skills are particularly important, even though many of my strategies are about avoiding algebra. Sometimes it can’t be avoided! Let me know if you have any questions while he practices!

1520 760/760 with 3 wrong in each. I don't know why, but I like to take my practice tests when I'm not fully concentrated/have a little noisy environment. I did the same thing for the PSAT and despite getting 1260, 1400, and 1490 taking the same bluebook practice test 3 times, I ended up with 1460 on the real test. For the reading, I think I did well. One question on module 2 where I changed my answer when the time expired and ended up getting it correct. I mainly just had small mistakes that could have been prevented if I executed a process of elimination strategy better. Especially on poems and underlined sentence function which I've always struggled slightly with. For math, I blanked on 18 and 20 on the second module and had like a minute left. Surprisngly I found that long paragraph math question easier than I thought it would be. I finished math module 1 with 13 minutes left and got the last question wrong on there too. On the real thing, I probably would've gone back and double checked every question and spent more time on the last one. Will be looking forward to your question explanations!

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

This is very helpful! Even with 3 wrong in each section, it’s still roughly 10 points a question, which isn’t bad at all. It’s reassuring that having to guess on a few questions won’t decimate the score. For #20 in Math, notice how I didn’t know what to do either. I used Arithmetize and Plug Points Into Equations without knowing if they’d work. I find that PPIE is great when for getting unstuck on lots of math questions. Also, I like your strategy of taking practice tests with a bit of distraction. The real exam will not be completely silent, so it’s good to practice tuning out the world around you.

i just took it....welp imma probably retake this anyway so thanks so much for this, I didn't know what to expect for this new digital version My questions(will edit throughout the video) 19:35, question #17- how do you when to use an "and" 21:25, why would you not join them-like I get there're 2 clauses. When do you join and when do you not?

@SetteleTutoring

3 ай бұрын

For #17, I knew we didn’t want “and” in this case because there was neither a list of 2 things nor 2 complete sentences. The comma after Butterflies told me that I’m now in an appositive that describes the novel. It’s an extra clause. I need the other comma to close it out and return to the main sentence, which is: Julia’s novel can serve as a starting point. For #20, it’s not that there are 2 clauses; it’s that there are 2 SENTENCES. A clause can be anything. Sometimes it’s a complete sentence that could stand on its own. But other times, it’s just a short description that is dependent on a sentence, so we usually join those dependent clauses to the sentence with a comma. In this case, I found 2 complete sentences, so I knew that I needed a strong punctuation mark to join them. The period was the only option, but in other cases, a semicolon, colon, or comma+and would have worked.

how would you compare the difficulty of this one as compared to test 1,2,3 and 4?

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

I don’t really remember taking 1, 2, or 3 under a timer, so it’s hard for me to say if I would have had pacing issues. But I remember struggling to get through 4 when I made the live videos for that, so I’d say both 5 and 6 are similar to 4. I know everybody says the March SAT was crazy hard, but I’m still skeptical that it was much much worse than usual. I think there is always a little bit of a difficulty shift from exam to exam, but there are probably other factors that made the March SAT feel so crazy. To me, it all comes down to this: learn strategies that let you adapt to whatever the SAT throws at you because memorizing steps to solve specific situations will only get you so far. I don’t think that the official and unofficial resources for the digital SAT were focused enough on those flexible strategies (except my videos, of course), so everyone felt unprepared for the unpredictability of the March test, especially the Math where flexibility is so important.

When I took it and got to question #21, i got stumped because I saw the detail “perpendicular” and was trying to figure out how I had to use that detail to solve the problem. it turns out that the perpendicularity didn’t even matter when solving the problem, so do you have any tips when it comes to recognizing when a problem gives unnecessary details?

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

This is a great question! First, for 99% of Geometry questions on the SAT, they will NOT give you information that you don’t end up using. That’s why you can usually make Geometry questions into a checklist. If you get stuck, go back to the question itself and see which information you didn’t “check off” or use. Odds are good that you need it to keep moving forward. But #21 is so different. I guess it’s technically a geometry question, but notice how long the paragraph is. Right away, I knew it would be more about reading and sorting the information. Notice that I took the question one piece at a time, writing down the info I thought was necessary as I went. From experience, I knew that this question was basically going to be an instruction manual I would need to follow. The “perpendicular” part just felt like background noise to describe the physics that I knew were incidental to the question. I sensed it was going to be much more about Plug Points Into Equations, where they described the equation and gave me the values to plug into it. I eventually needed geometry to solve the square part, but it was minor in the grand plan. I guess the takeaway is that when it’s a “story” question, they are going to give you information you don’t need, so your job is to get back to the basics of points and equations. But if it’s a geometry question, the question itself will be much more bare-bones and include only the information you need. Does any of this make sense? It’s a very subtle point to explain.

@gianaloi7342

2 ай бұрын

@@SetteleTutoring Yes it makes sense, thank you for the response. I think the best way I can avoid making a mistake like this is to keep doing practice problems that are more complex like this one, and I will naturally over time become better at recognizing what information is inessential.

Took this today before watching your video, got a 1510. 6 wrong in reading (all in the second module) and 3 wrong in math (all on the second module). That second reading module was so hard, man. That's a 740 in reading and 770 in math.

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great score! And I think it shows that the hard modules can be hard but still produce great scores. 6 wrong feels like a lot, but to still get a 740 is excellent. I think everyone should be prepared to run out of time on at least one of the hard modules, which lets you give up on trying to be perfect and instead focus on getting as many right as possible, even if it means sacrificing one hard question for the sake of another.

@guava348

22 күн бұрын

I got a 1480, 5 wrong on reading and 4 wrong on math. I got 740 on both and all the questions wrong were from the second module. I’m just confused on how these tests are scored if we got the same number of questions wrong, but I scored 30 points less.

@SetteleTutoring

21 күн бұрын

@@guava348 The SAT isn’t linear grading, in that one question isn’t worth exactly X points. The score is scaled so that a 700 in March is the same skill level as a 700 in October. No two tests are the exact same difficulty, so the College Board does a lot of math on the backend to “equate” different exams. You can think of it like grading on a curve. When the test is harder, the scale might allow 6 wrong answers for a 740, but when it’s easier you might be able to get only 3 wrong for a 740. Regardless, you can usually approximate 10 points per question.

Why is my reading and writing module 2 is different from yours

@SetteleTutoring

Ай бұрын

If you get too many wrong in the first module, you get placed in the easier second module, which limits your score to around a 600 max. It’s how the adaptive testing works. Watch this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJWduLFydtKtl5c.html

I took it and I disagreed with your line of thinking on questions number ninr and fifteen on the reading and writing module number two abd instead of choosing c for number nine and a fir number fifteen, I chose the inverse abd those were the only two questions that were incorrect in the report. I understand my mistake now but here's what happened. I got 1570 because I lost ten points for getting question number fifteen wrong which is a hard question according to their difficulty scalings and I lost twenty points for getting question number nine wrong which is a medium question. People are right when they say that you lose ten points for hard question, twenty points for medium questions, and thirty points for easy questions. I am not sure about easy questions but Mike from Prep Pros says that it could possibly be up to even fifty points. Is that accurate?

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

This was great info for me. I ran the Bluebook test again to confirm, and yes, the medium question 9 was worth 20 points. But I don't want to draw too many conclusions from that. The scoring on the digital SAT is very confusing, and nobody really knows what’s going on. Sometimes it seems like the easier questions are worth more points, but other times it looks like the hard ones cost more when you get them wrong. My overall strategy is that you should always be prioritizing getting more questions correct, no matter their difficulty. For example, I think it’s foolish to work backwards through the Math section to start with the hard ones because you risk running out of time for the easy ones. Similarly, you saw me skip the passages in this Reading Hard module because I wanted to makes sure I had time for all the easy grammar, transitions, and outlines. I’m not sure where Mike from Prep Pros is getting those numbers, but 50 points for a question is not accurate. What he might be trying to explain is that getting placed in the easy second module limits your score. So in that way, too many wrong answers in Module 1 can cost you a lot of points overall. I did some experiments with the scoring in this video if you’re curious: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hXia17SgZZDVh5c.htmlsi=RYV9MPO-_-kPknh8

@Nick-wl1vi

2 ай бұрын

@@SetteleTutoringDo you suggest skipping ahead in the Hard Reading Section on every test to maximize points? Is every SAT built the same way with an order of what is being tested?

@SetteleTutoring

2 ай бұрын

@@Nick-wl1vi Yes, all of the Reading modules will always have the same order: vocab, passages, grammar, transitions, and outlines. Personally, I feel good about the vocabulary questions because I know a lot of words, so I like to start with them. But then I plan to skip ahead to the grammar on every hard Reading module. I’d much rather run out of time with a few extra passages. You could skip the vocab at first too if you don’t feel good about those questions either. Basically, play to your strengths. Skip to whatever questions you’re most likely to get right. In Math, though, you should always go in order until about question 15, then you can start skipping around.

can you do the one with extra breaks and pause option .... the questions are different

@SetteleTutoring

11 күн бұрын

If you got different questions, it’s not because of the extra time and break accommodations. You got too many questions wrong in the first module, so you got placed in the easy second module. I’ll be posting the easy Reading module later this week, but the math one is here: kzread.info/head/PLlvPF6rDVN_vdT9zyhVT3aAm7xz9h6uKe If you’re confused about how the adaptive testing works, I recommend this video too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJWduLFydtKtl5c.html

@coventehtarik6111

11 күн бұрын

@@SetteleTutoring but then the first modules of both math and r&w also included question not on the practice test you had walkthrough when I did double time

@SetteleTutoring

11 күн бұрын

I just checked, and it's the same test in Bluebook. You either took a different number test or you took the Linear SAT. You should be taking all tests in the Bluebook app unless you have the specific accommodation to take the paper-and-pencil linear SAT. This is a rare accommodation, though. I talk more about the linear tests here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6mu3NZ-Xdm0YKw.html

@coventehtarik6111

11 күн бұрын

@@SetteleTutoring I checked it is the same number test ( SAT test 5 ) but with double time and extra breaks , some questions are the same but there are others that are different

@coventehtarik6111

11 күн бұрын

And it is all from bluebook

I got 720 from math with 5 mistakes in module 2

@SetteleTutoring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! That’s pretty good. We’d expect 5 mistakes to cost about 50 points, so you got hit a little harder than that, but it’s not unusual.