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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: A Brief History of This Book -- One Afternoon in the Ithaca High School Cafeteria Way Back in the Late '80s -- Years Later -- Meet Samantha -- Chapter 1: About the SAT -- Before We Begin, Any Questions? -- The Story of the Evil Testing Serpent -- SAT Scoring -- SAT Services -- SAT Mistakes -- Chapter 2: How to Study: A Primer for the Lazy, the Anxious, and the Disorganized -- Getting in Gear -- The Up Your Score Lower Your Stress Plan -- Concentration -- How Not to Get Stuck -- Wean Yourself From Your Phone -- Creating A Study Program . . . And Sticking With It -- Practice, Practice, Practice -- Building Endurance -- Chapter 3: The Evidence-Based Reading Test -- The Serpent's New Obsessions-Evidence and Analysis -- The Nuts and Bolts of the Reading Test -- The Seven Key Rules -- So Many Passage Types, So Little Tiime -- Reading Test Question Types -- Different Readers, Different Strategies -- A Very Serious Reading Passage -- A Truly Serious Reading Passage-We Mean It This Time -- Infographics -- Vocabulary-Still Essential -- Decodable Words -- Memorization Strategies -- The Word List -- Chapter 4: The Writing and Language Test: Embracing Your Inner Grammaniac -- Know Your Enemy -- Standard English Conventions -- Expression of Ideas -- Precision and Concision -- Informational Graphics -- Let's Put This All Together and Practice! -- Pithy Parting Wisdom -- Chapter 5: The Math Test -- Welcome to Math -- Before We Begin -- The Shape of the Test -- How Is This Different From the Old SAT? -- Mental Math Tricks -- Some Arithmetic Reminders -- Problem Solving and Data Analysis -- Interpreting Graphs -- Statistics -- Heart of Algebra -- Passport to Advanced Math -- Additional Topics -- Grid-In Problems -- A Few Last Words. |
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Chapter 6: The Not-So-Optional Essay -- Does Optional Really Mean Optional? -- Not What Is Said, But How It's Said -- One Template to Rule Them All -- How Is the SAT Essay Scored? -- How to Write Good -- Why You Shouldn't Hate the Essay -- Chapter 7: Guessing, or Defeating the Imposters from Hell -- Imposters From Hell -- Guessing, the SAT, and the Specter of World Destruction -- The Five Rules of Guessing -- Some More Advice -- Chapter 8: But Wait! You Also Get . . . -- Little Circles -- Cursing Cursive -- Yoga and the SAT -- The SAT and the Internet -- Cheating -- Is the SAT Biased? -- A Test Taker's Guide to Proctors -- What's the Best Way to Prepare the Day Before the SAT? -- Sneaky Snacking -- Fashion and Beauty Tips -- Keeping Track of TIme -- Stick It In Your Ear -- SATitis -- Canceling Counseling -- The SSS -- SATing for Dollars -- Some Other Thougts on Getting Into College -- Parting Words of Advice (To Be Read the Night Before the Test) -- Who Are These People, Anyway? -- Whiz Kids Wanted. |
| Summary |
Thoroughly revised for the revamped SAT, Up Your Score: SAT is the only test-prep guide written for students by students -- all of whom achieved perfect or near-perfect scores and went on to the colleges of their choice. A complement and reality check to the mainstream SAT study guides, it's the book that kids recommend to one another, because it's as entertaining as it is effective, showing students how to: ́ђØ Think like the SAT ́ђØ Ramp up their "mental math-powers ́ђØ Remember the 12 most important grammar rules ́ђØ Hone speed and timing ́ђØ Understand key vocabulary words in context ́ђØ Be a better guesser (and why it's always better to guess) ́ђØ Vanquish anxiety and improve concentration ́ђØ Best fill in the answer circles, saving nearly six minutes ́ђØ Unwind with SAT Yoga. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Print version: Berger, Larry. Up your score SAT. New York : Workman Publishing, 2017. 9780761193654 (alk. paper) |
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Original 9781523500598 |
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Entrance examinations -- Study guides.
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College entrance achievement tests -- United States -- Study guides.
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SAT (Educational test) -- Study guides.
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| Genre |
Study guides.
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Electronic books.
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| Add'l Names |
Kalb, Chris, illustrator.
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Rossi, Paul, author.
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Mistry, Manek, author.
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Colton, Michael, author.
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Bindner, Samantha, author.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781523500598
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| STANDARD # |
DCBCBE00-17FE-4017-9664-4D560C8E8842 OverDrive |
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