When to start sat prep
When to start studying for the SAT
what's going on guys welcome back to
today's video today we're gonna talk
about when it's the best time like when
is the best time to start preparing for
the SAT should you start early should
start late which one's better if it's
your first time here my name is John and
I've been helping students to raise your
SAT scores to the moon for the past
decade and that's a super long time and
I need to find better things to do with
my time but today we're just gonna go
over when is the best time to start
preparing for the SAT so this video is
going to be broken down into three
separate parts first one is going to be
freshman year versus junior year when
should you start early first is later
second it's going to be reading and
writing section and math section timing
like how early can we start can we start
second-grade or can we start ninth grade
or can we start in junior year when is
the best time or when can we actually
start preparing for the SAT and lastly
I'm going to go over a way for you to
prepare as efficiently as possible
because the most important thing is GPA
is the most important thing and you want
to minimize the time that goes into SAT
and maximize the result that you get out
of it so that your GPA is not affected
by SAT prep okay so let's get straight
into guys so let's get straight into it
guys first one is going to be freshman
year vs. junior year should you start as
a freshman or should you start as a
junior a quick answer is you need to
start as soon as possible
and here's what most of you probably
heard that high school gets busier as
you go up the great freshman year is
going to be not as easy as the sophomore
year but junior year is going to be
super busy compared to sophomore year or
freshman year so the later you go into
high school the busier it's gonna get
and the less time you're gonna have
laying around to do anything you want
and let's say you start preparing in
junior year when you're the busiest and
you add SAT on top of it Jesus Christ
that's gonna be so stressful and that's
going to affect your GPA and GPA is the
most important thing when it comes to
college admission so you want to start
as soon as possible so that you don't
have to stress about it and worry about
it in later years okay second one is
junior year junior either junior year is
super important because that's when
you're loading up on your high some
honors classes and your AP classes and
to colleges junior year is a great
indicator on how
you're going to perform when you come to
colleges because AP classes are
essentially college-level classes and
what they want to see how well you
perform in those classes and let's say
you are capable of acing these classes
but you are prepared for the SAT so you
spend a lot of time studying for the SAT
and you bomb a test or two when it comes
to AP classes that's not gonna look good
when it comes to college admission so
you want to finish its prepare for the
SAT or at least a big chunk of it before
you computer junior year because that's
the most important here okay
lastly the reason why you want to start
early and not later is because just the
overall nature of the SAT SAT is a
marathon it's not a hundred meter sprint
where you can just start preparing for
like two weeks and just be done with it
SAT takes time a lot of people ask hey
John I'm currently at 1200 and my exams
in about two weeks if I if I skip school
for next two weeks and study sixteen
hours a day and not even go to bathrooms
will I be able to get my score up to
fifteen hundred can I do that and my
answer always is no SATs not a type of
exam where you just study for 16 hours a
day and just go from 1200 to 1500
in two weeks that's just not possible
it's a lot more realistic for you to
study maybe like an hour every other day
and over a long period of time you're
more likely to go from 1200 to 1500 with
this method rather than just studying
for 16 hours a day for two weeks that's
just not going to work it takes a long
time
SATs a marathon that's why you want to
start as early as possible okay alright
so second how soon can we start reading
writing in that section because if you
start too early you probably haven't
learned all the stuff that shows up on
the exam that's why people wait until
junior it's your new year but by junior
year you probably have learned
everything but you're just you're just
out of time you don't have time and
junior year is just too busy so how
early can we start it depends on each
section
okay so region section is mainly testing
your reading skills right so if you as
long as you know how to read as long as
you know English and Hounds know how to
read you can start preparing for the
reading section honestly the reading
section is the only one where you can
start practicing like six seven eight
ninth grade
six seven eight graders kind of overkill
but you can start preparing if I were to
go back to middle school honestly I
would just like slap myself in the face
and be like hey start preparing for the
SAT in eighth grade because reading
section is one of those sections that
takes a lot of time and I suck at
reading so reading as long as you know
how to read you're gonna be good to go
just start as soon as possible
writing section weather test is it test
your ability or knowledge on grammars
okay so every school is different every
state every county is different then my
school be finished learning all the
grammar stuff in eighth grade so my
freshman year I was I had every single
knowledge I need to start preparing for
the writing section so just check when
your and you guys are going to be done
learning all the grammar stuff okay math
SAT math covers all the way from Fred
your first grade up until algebra two
okay so for everyone algebra 2 is going
to be different one when they finish it
some people finish lines junior year
some people finish freshman year but you
want to wait until algebra 2 because SAT
covers up until there and let's say you
are at maybe like Algebra one you don't
want to start preparing for the SAT
because there will be way too much stuff
on the exams that you have never seen
before and it's going to be like 10
times more stressful don't start are you
have geometry because math goes from
alpha 1 John 3 I'll go to at least
around around my area if you're out if
you're at geometry don't don't do it
if your algebra to wait until the course
is finished then start preparing if
you're if you're if it's like if you're
at let's see if you're currently at
algebra 2 and if you're starting to get
anxious then start preparing for reading
section and writing section because you
probably have learned all the reading
stuff and writing stuff by whatever you
are now long story short wait until you
finish algebra 2 otherwise you're going
to have struggled 10 times 1/3 how to
prepare efficiently now that you know
when to prepare for it like each section
how can we prepare for it efficiently
when it comes to efficiency the most
important thing is understand
understanding how super scoring works
and there's the video on it I made it
and it's going to be linked that right
there and all I'm also going to leave a
link in the
scription box below I'm going to explain
in detail how you can utilize Super
scoring to maximize your score without
without going like without over killing
it if you understand how super scoring
works your prop you probably came down
to okay chest start with reading writing
or chef start with mat okay my
recommendation is start with whatever
you're good at if you're good at reading
and writing start with that you're good
math but suck at reading and writing
like I did just start with math like
just pick one and just focus on it get
the high score and then move on to the
next thing
okay let's say you suck at both then
which one should you start with if
that's the scenario definitely recommend
starting with math and here's reasons
one first one is that for math at least
there is a clear-cut instruction and
lessons on what showed up on the exam at
least for math section okay
example let's say you suck at like
exponents quadratics and triangles if
you suck at those three things what you
can do is you can get a book on prom SAT
math concept and just like go drill down
on these three things and if you get
these things right your scores gonna
improve right for math there is a
clear-cut instructions on what you need
to do to improve your score power perks
for reading
let's see you suck at reading let's say
your ability to really read and
understand stuff just sucks this just
sucks masked balls what are you gonna do
most people say just hey just read a lot
just recent times magazines to read some
newspapers whatever but there is not a
clear-cut direction like how do like how
can we tell the reading these bring
these magazines and these newspapers are
actually hoping us helping our ability
to read you can't you can't there's not
a clear-cut guidance on what to do for
the reading section whereas for math
section there is a book there's a
constant they need to look at and if you
look at those you're good to go it's
clear versus it's not clear that's why
you want to start with first and second
it's two subjects versus one your
climbing for reading is essentially they
caught the readings actually with 800
points but it's essentially you pleading
and writing section and their scores add
up to 800 points okay which means you
have to prepare for reinfection and
writing section in order for you to
raise your reading score as much as
possible right you're essentially
prepared
for two sections at the same time
however for math if you want to raise
your math score you just need to prepare
for math and you're good that's just one
section okay you see that two sections
you have to prepare for versus one
section I think one section is easier if
you think choose easier hey by all means
go ahead and let's say you have
committed to just working on math first
how can we start what the first step the
very first step is for you to identify
exactly where you are
first because whether if you are at 400
and let's say someone else is at like
600
their third strategy on how they should
study is completely different okay
depending on where you are at in terms
of score the way that you should prepare
is a lot different okay that's why the
first thing you need to do is understand
where you are first
okay so there's also a video I made on
how to prepare for each score group I go
super in-depth you can check it out in
the description box below but the very
first that is for you to take the
practice exam and make sure you find out
exactly what your score is okay once you
can do that watch the video and you're
gonna know exactly what to do okay
alright that's going to be it for
today's video we're gonna quickly
summarize because you probably don't
remember all the stuff I said so I'm
gonna quickly run it down today's topic
was when should you start preparing for
the SAT first thing we went over at was
freshman year versus junior year when
should you start hate start as soon as
possible why because of the nature of
the SAT is a marathon it's not a sprint
just gonna take a lot of time you want
to work one hour every other day for a
long period of time rather than studying
16 hours a day for the next two weeks
okay also junior year junior year gets
super busy and is super important and we
want to make sure that SAT prep doesn't
affect your junior year GPAs that's why
you want to start early and finish as
early as possible okay second reading
and writing and math timing how soon can
we start for reading and writing just
start preparing as soon as you finish
grammar lessons okay if you learn all
the grammar stuff like run-ins fragments
punctuation all that good stuff tenses
if you have learned all those things and
you can start preparing reading and
writing
however for math it covers up until
algebra two so make sure you wait until
algebra two if your Algebra one
don't even bother starting because your
are going to be 10 times stressed out
and you're gonna want to like drop out
of high school and not go to college at
all so don't do that wait until all
three - and lastly how to prepare
efficiently you want to prepare as
efficiently as possible to minimize time
that goes into it and maximize the
result that you get out of it so your
GPA is affected minimally okay how do we
do that first thing is going to be super
scoring you want to understand how super
scoring worse to you so you can use it
to your advantage there's going to be a
video in the link down below in the
description box and second you want to
start with math first okay the reason
being is it's relatively easier there is
a clear-cut guidance and second reason
is two topics versus one topic reading
and writing is just you have to study
for reading section and writing section
at the same time but math is just one
section okay so now that you want to
start preparing for math section what's
the first step what you want to do is
you want to identify exactly where
you're first because you're not going to
know what to do unless you know where
you are so thing is take a diagnostics
exam see what your score is and then go
to the video below and then you can find
out exactly what to do for your score
level
I mean score range okay alright guys so
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