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SAT Math Test Strategies
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What is good advice about using the SAT booklet?
Use special markings to keep track of your question strategy
Don't write in it
Write your answers in the booklet
Write in it
2
When should you work backwards on an SAT problem?
When answer choices are numbers and problem has variables
When you have forgotten how to solve the problem
When the solving the problem is time consuming
On all grid-in problems
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When picking numbers to represent variables...
Pick the same number for all the variables
Pick 0 or 1
Pick numbers that are simple
Pick 100 for a problem that uses percents
4
When do you know if a figure is drawn to scale?
When it specifically says it is.
When it says nothing
No figures are drawn to scale.
It is unless it says "Figure not drawn to scale"
5
When working backwards, which answer should you try first?
B or C
D, then C, then B
A, then B, then C, then D
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What should you do if a question has a lot of text?
Only read the first and last sentence
Read the question at the end first
Just guess...reading is too much work
Underline key information
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If you skip a question, what is a good strategy?
Circle the number on your answer sheet.
Bubble a temporary answer, star the # in the book.
Just leave the number blank and come back to it.
Bubble in every answer.
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Which of these are the WRONG way to grid in 2/3?
.666
0.66
.667
.67
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What is true about SAT math problems in both sections?
You should skip them all.
they go from hardest to easiest
they are in random order
they go from easiest to hardest
10
When a problem is describing a graph or shape the best strategy is to...
Use your graphing calculator
Give up
Use algebra to solve
Draw a figure
11
When you are gridding in math questions, what is graded?
both the number and bubbled in answer
The number at the top
the bubbled in answer
the drool on your paper where you fell asleep
12
How many sections of the SAT math section are there?
3: Calculator, Non-calculator and grid-in
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2: Calculator and Non-calculator
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What is the best guessing strategy on the SAT when you don't know how to do the problem?
Pick the answer that is the most realistic
Always pick C
Eliminate answers and then pick
Close your eyes and randomly put your finger on the page
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What are some good strategies for keeping time on the SAT?
Skip questions you don't understand or take lots of time
Watch the clock
Double check your answers as you go along
Start with the last problems and work backwards
