My Advice on How to Best Prepare Yourself to Take the SATs
Several years ago the SAT test that many students once took as a college entrance examination was replaced with a new version. This version, which lasts about an hour or so longer than the previous exam and has an additional eight hundred points added to the original sixteen hundred (for a total of twenty-four hundred), is a new frontier to conquer for many high school students today. Despite the addition and alterations to the old SAT, great success for the new SAT still may lie in one primary factor: studying.
While some people believe that studying for such a standardized test is completely impracticable and serves no beneficial purpose whatsoever, I would strongly counter this argument. From my own experience in talking with students, those who studied simply did better than those who chose to take the test without studying or with close to no studying. This simple truth in and of itself should motivate students who wish to be accepted into good universities to spend some time either their junior or senior years of high school reviewing for the SAT. Continue reading …
Article by, Bobby Wright and courtesy of Associated Content, Inc.
