What The College Board Doesn't Want You To Know

The SAT is just one big True/False test!

"It's true!"

Look, either you're already pulling at least 700s on every section of the SAT, or you're looking for strategies, tactics, and ABOVE ALL: shortcuts to get you there.

Here are the top three tactics/strategies/skills you'll need to do well on the SAT, particularly the Critical Reading section, not to mention the Math.

(They're not called word problems for nothing.)

1.) Process of Elimination. Get rid of wrong answers first. Narrow down to the only two possible choices. Carefully examine those two for congruent language, et Voila! You've chosen the write answer.

2.) True/False. The process of elimination strategy is entirely dependent on whether an answer is true or false. And since ANY false word eliminates a possible answer, eliminating wrong answers is entirely a True/False proposition.

When every word in the answer choice is true, unassailably true about the passage, or the author's attitude towards the subject, or what a word means in context, well, then: There's your winner!

Your last strategy is the ever-popular, but not so obvious,

3.) Know stuff.

Know the right answers. Not only when you read them, but before. Anticipating correct answers is the fastest way to consistently scoring over 700 on every SAT section.

On Critical Reading that means having a huge vocabulary. No head scratching or puzzling over a word's meaning. Every word you read, you understand. You can follow a pronoun trail back to any antecedent. You understand the logic of words like "although," "despite," "and," and "for."

That's reading comprehension.

In Math, knowing what a function indicates allows you to home in on correct choices faster. If you know an answer must be positive, you focus immediately on positive answer choices, at the same moment eliminating negative choices, which then must be false. You know that the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the length of the third side. And you know that the square of any fraction between 0 and 1 is less than its square root!

In Writing, you know subject and verb must agree both in person and number. You're not distracted by endless strings of prepositional phrases with plural objects. Nor are you fazed by shifting tenses, nonparallel phrasing, or the objective case.

You know stuff. You don't play process of elimination because you don't have to. You hunt for the right answers. 'Cause you can.

'Cause you know stuff. You're just trying to close the gap between 700 and 800.

Everybody else: You're playing process of elimination, at least, you should be.

And that means True? Or False?

That's all process of elimination is True? Or False?

More to come, with examples.