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northern
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:59:44 +0000

Don’t worry about the SAT math. If you have been in gifted classes you have had enough math to get a decent score in the math. Any thing over 520 is a good score for your age. There is no Trigonometry or Calculus. There is also very little advanced Algebra. The Geometry is at the middle school level. You should get the free booklet from the SAT folks called “SAT Preparation Booklet”. It has a review section for math that is only a few pages. The three pages of Geometry in the booklet are all that you need to know. If you come across anything that you can not do, just skip the question. You can skip half the questions and still get about 500. The difficulty of the SAT math is related to the tricky way in which the ETS tests very simple basic concepts. So you have to be very careful.