College Entrance Exams this year? We can help!
Standardized tests. You may love them, you may hate them - but they are a fact of life in the college application process. Most colleges accept ACT or SAT test scores, but some have a strong preference for one or the other. Students often find that one test seems to fit their learning style better than the other and thus score higher on that test. Which one is best for your student?
The math portion of the ACT test consists of problems that are very similar to the homework that your student has encountered in his/her math classes. The problems cover topics from Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Coordinate Geometry, Plane Geometry, and Trigonometry. If your student is very accurate in their math work and has good recall of the topics they have learned over the last few years in math classes they should do well on the ACT exam. If they need some review over the material on the test, it is a fairly straightforward process to figure out where the gaps are and what they need to relearn/review. High School Math Live is certainly able to help your student to prepare for the ACT exam.
The SAT, which is preferred by many universities, is a very different kind of test. The math portion of the SAT test is more of a thinking skills test. While preparing for the test, it is vital that students show work to help them learn and to check for accuracy. The problems have MUCH more to do with UNDERSTANDING and APPLYING math than with computing math. Students who run out of time on the test are, generally speaking, trying to do the problems in the wrong way. They are demonstrating a lack of understanding of the skills being tested.
By working through published tests with students, Brenda Barnett is able to "connect the dots" for the students using the knowledge they have and connecting it with an understanding of how that knowledge applies to the problem at hand. She often hear this comment: "The test is so easy when you show me how to do it!" The goal that Brenda strives for is to make it easy for students to problem-solve on their own without having her to provide prompts. The biggest part of that is to help the student recognize how to START the problem. To do that, Brenda shows them how to recognize clues from the problem, to see the interconnectedness of their math knowledge, and to draw upon past problems that they have done together that make each new problem a little bit more clear.
Whichever test your student signs up for, certainly the slow and steady pace is the right way to go. Attending a seminar every week - or even every other week - would be an excellent pace.
Start early. Practice often. Let us help you to improve those entrance exam scores! Click here for more info on how HSML can help your student with these standardized tests.
The math portion of the ACT test consists of problems that are very similar to the homework that your student has encountered in his/her math classes. The problems cover topics from Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Coordinate Geometry, Plane Geometry, and Trigonometry. If your student is very accurate in their math work and has good recall of the topics they have learned over the last few years in math classes they should do well on the ACT exam. If they need some review over the material on the test, it is a fairly straightforward process to figure out where the gaps are and what they need to relearn/review. High School Math Live is certainly able to help your student to prepare for the ACT exam.
The SAT, which is preferred by many universities, is a very different kind of test. The math portion of the SAT test is more of a thinking skills test. While preparing for the test, it is vital that students show work to help them learn and to check for accuracy. The problems have MUCH more to do with UNDERSTANDING and APPLYING math than with computing math. Students who run out of time on the test are, generally speaking, trying to do the problems in the wrong way. They are demonstrating a lack of understanding of the skills being tested.
By working through published tests with students, Brenda Barnett is able to "connect the dots" for the students using the knowledge they have and connecting it with an understanding of how that knowledge applies to the problem at hand. She often hear this comment: "The test is so easy when you show me how to do it!" The goal that Brenda strives for is to make it easy for students to problem-solve on their own without having her to provide prompts. The biggest part of that is to help the student recognize how to START the problem. To do that, Brenda shows them how to recognize clues from the problem, to see the interconnectedness of their math knowledge, and to draw upon past problems that they have done together that make each new problem a little bit more clear.
Whichever test your student signs up for, certainly the slow and steady pace is the right way to go. Attending a seminar every week - or even every other week - would be an excellent pace.
Start early. Practice often. Let us help you to improve those entrance exam scores! Click here for more info on how HSML can help your student with these standardized tests.