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The New SAT is so designed to help select the most college-ready students for admission into the various American universities.

Being college-ready is a quality that nieeds to be adequately acquired by every intending student. There are well-defined academic (achievement)and aptitude skills that a person preparing to study in an American university is expected to possess. It is the student's mastery of these skills that makes him ready for college. It is also the mastery of the skills that the SAT assesses.

Here, I'll talk briefly about the various sections of the SAT and the corresponding skills that are needed to do very well in the test.

THE SAT READING TEST

At the Be-Noble Home School, we divide the 52 Reading Test questions into 6 main categories.
1.) Command of Evidence (COE) questions;
2.) Words-in-Context (WIC) questions;
3.) Description/Information questions;
4.) Purpose questions;
5.) Infographic questions; and,
6.) Paired Text questions.

We teach our students effective and proven techniques that help them to adequately grasp the skills needed to answer each of these types of questions correctly.

The most important skill needed to really do well in the English section of the SAT is VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT. That is, to score something in the range of 700-800 in the Reading/Writing section of the new SAT a student's vocabulary prowess should be very high. This doesn't in any way suggest that a student needs to sit down studying the dictionary day and night - like many did for the old SAT. High vocabulary mastery is very essential for many reasons. But foremost among them is that the correct answer to a question in the Evidence-based Reading section of the new SAT is only a rewriting of the relevant part of the passage. The problem is that many students fail to recognise the correct answer as a restatement of the the required section if the passage. They fail to see that the words used in giving the correct answer are mere synonyms of the words used in the passage. Those who do poorly are easily fooled because they can't see the restatement for what it is. Most students that aren't not well tutored for the SAT will go for what we at the Be-Noble Home School call the SEEMINGLY CORRECT ANSWERS. These answers which are actually wrong will look very correct to a student that hasn't been well prepared for the SAT. This is so because those seemingly correct answers are somewhat direct quotations from the passage. But unfortunately they are quoted from the irrelevant parts of the passage: the parts of the passage that are not relevant to the questions asked.

At the Be-Noble Home School, we train our students how to easily recognise the OBVIOUSLY WRONG ANSWERS, SEEMINGLY CORRECT ANSWERS and the VERY CORRECT ANSWERS.

Besides vocabulary mastery, the other skills that are needed to gainfully and easily tackle the various types of questions in the SAT Reading section are:
1.) Ability to use the introduction to the passage and the the passage's first few sentences to correctly deduce the purpose or main theme of the passage. The same applies to determining the purpose of paragraphs.
2.) Ability to quickly and effectively study Infographic materials.
3.) Ability to use the quotations for the second question of the command of evidence (COE) pair of questions to answer both questions correctly. And to use same as strong aids to reading or skimming the passage.

These are few of the basic skills that high scoring students have been using to tackle the Evidence-based Reading section of the new SAT.

THE SAT WRITING TEST


(To be continued)

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tessygirl:
can i link you up to someone in my firm?

I'll appreciate it.

seunthomas:
While i was on my long stay in Krypton, i be hear say some small pikin dey contest with me to challenge me on coding..
Oya all of una wey no dey fear make una come out. I get time for una.
He no easy to be undisputed.
50 KO baby..........

I need a 'statistical' mobile app. Can you develop it for me?
A brief 'statement algorithm' of the app is:
1.)Do
2.)Do
3.)Do
4.)Select any 5 different numbers from numbers 00 to 89.
5.) Put the 5 numbers selected randomly in a list labelled ListA; eg ListA = {74 37 00 89 10}.
6.) Create an updatable list (that I'll be able to update from time to time). This list will be labelled ListB. It is a list of infinite series of random numbers selected from 00 to 89; eg, ListB = {23 56 77 03 65 65 71 15 23 32 30 48 ......}.
7.) 'ListC = ListA intersection ListB'
3b.)Until
8.) Number of elements/items (or cardinality) of ListC >= 26..
9.) Take the last element in List C and count the number of elements between where it is as the last element and where it appears before its last appearance.
2b.)Until
10.) The number obtained/counted in (9.) above is between 6 and 9; ie, 6<=count<=9.
Example: Count{...... 12 58 87 43 09 67 12} = 6
11.) Then count the number of elements between the appearance of the element at its first to the last position and its second to the last position.
1b.)Until
12.) The number obtained/counted in (11.) above is between 16 and 25; ie, 16<=count<=25.
Example: Count{..... 12 34 68 79 32 11 54 34 69 80 89 65 74 19 05 05 06 12 58 87 43 09 67 12} = 17.

13.) Output (a.) the count in (9.), eg, {6};
(b.) the count in (11.), eg, {17}; and,
(c.) the last number/element in ListC, eg, {12}.

End.

I haven't really contacted any of those that posted their numbers here. I tried calling someone but my phone went off immediately the call got through. Since then I haven't been able to get in touch. No NEPA. Gen spoilt.
But I'll surely talk to everyone today to see who I'll work with.
Thank you all.

LordeCalifornia:
Has anyone agreed to do it?
If no, tell me more about the app, let me see what I can come up with. I am already working on it, but I find it difficult understanding exactly what you need, maybe its because I'm not a good statistician.
See pics below.

Thanks bro. How do I get in touch with you, please?

Sirnuel:
call me ==> 07012446202

Ok. I'll.