need to improve Math & English

killparis
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:05:06 +0000

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I wouldn’t advice studying from a prep book. Math isn’t about learning specific type of questions for a test (although for some people it works, but I guess they won’t study anything math related), it’s about understanding the topics.

Your son has to make sure he understands what he is doing by factoring a quadratic or finding the solutions to a trig equation. I mean, the ACT / SAT math is really simple, there are no traps, no derivatives (although some problems can be solved with them), no advanced math, they are truly just testing whether you can think mathematically or not. (and that can be learned)

Always remember that practice makes perfection. Can’t your son expand equation of form (a + b)^3 correctly? Well let him solve 20 of them and he will learn. Can’t he find the solutions to a simple quadratic using factoring? Again, do 10 - 20 problems and he will be able to.

I’ve never held a prep book in my hand and I can score 35+, but then again, I have a wide math background. Though, I always miss 1 or 2 questions, due of basic logic fail or numerical error :)