<p>This guide is pure gold.</p>
<p>waww!! this is a really helpful thread</p>
<p>thank you very much</p>
<p>Amazing. Thanks so much.</p>
<p>super helpful!</p>
<p>Thanks Silverturtle for the amazing guide! I have a quick question. You say that being an international adversely affects one’s chances, listing examples of China, India, UK. I’m from Australia and I’m wondering if that applies to me too?</p>
<p>This is great–thanks for posting.</p>
<p>This question’s over-analyzed, I thought, but in spite of it I got it wrong.</p>
<p>What’s the answer here?</p>
<p>In (areas where deer roam freely), residents must dress to protect themselves against deer ticks that might transmit diseases. </p>
<p>A) areas where deer roam freely
B) areas romaned by deer freely
C) areas, freely roamed by deer
D) areas, in which there are deer that roam freely
E) areas which deer roam free</p>
<p>What is the answer and why are the rest of the answers wrong? Explanations? Gracias.</p>
<p>Silverturtle please advise. Two of my children need advice in studying for the SAT. My daughter is in 10th grade and son is in 8th grade. Both children were born in October and could of been held back a year (should of?). Mastery of public school material gives older daughter some challenges more then my son. Daughter has taken PSAT with not the greatest results. My oldest child, daughter didn’t make time to really study for SAT. She is a senior now and took the SAT twice, May in junior year, 1,980 or so and September senior year 2,190. She had the self study Princeton review book and I don’t think it was used intensively. My senior was very busy with clubs and year round athletics. </p>
<p>I want to take corrective action with my younger children and you seem to be the expert. Can you recommend a direction for me to pursue so my children can learn the necessary skills to test well?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Ive been away from CC for some months now, so many questions have gone unanswered. I apologize for this neglect. Im going to do my best to address most of the questions from the last few pages, but many of the original posters likely have little interest in the answers at this point. I hope my responses may be helpful to others, though.</p>
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<p>Actually, Id say practice makes perfect most of all on the Critical Reading passage questions. The key to the Writing section, for most students, is simply learning and applying some grammar concepts, while ensuring they read with a technical eye. Practice is integral to performing efficiently on the Math section, but slow learning of concepts and reasoning paths is the more important foundation. </p>
<p>For the passage questions, Id say two concepts most clearly mark the preparation: figuring out a logistical process of reading and answering questions that works for you, and developing an intuition about how to transmute the nuances of the relationships between the questions and passage into clarity on what the test makers are expecting when it comes to interpretation.</p>
<p>In the original guide I outlined a basic recommendation for the logistical approach to the questions: first marking line references, then reading through the passage (taking more care around marked lines), attempting to answer the referential questions whenever you arrive at the appropriate lines, and finally cleaning up the general questions you havent hit yet. You can play around with this until you find your groove. </p>
<p>Internalizing the critical reading attitude of the test writers is a challenging process and, in my opinion, requires the most attentiveness during preparation of any aspect of the SAT. I have written guidelines, such as the mentality that an answer must be absolutely not just possibly supported by the text (similar to playing Devils advocate: Given the passage, is it possible that this answer is wrong?). Youll learn your own ways of thinking about the passages relationship to each question through the practice of trial and error. Make sure you never cast aside a test without understanding exactly why each correct and incorrect answer is respectively so. You can only get better this way. Good luck.</p>
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<p>International applicants on the whole usually face a disadvantage in admissions over their domestic applicant peers. Schools dont impose rigid quotas for each country, but overall colleges have many fewer spots they are willing to extend to international applicants relative to the large number of highly qualified applicants. Some countries, such as most in Asia, boast particularly well-credentialed applicant pools, making the competition from those areas foreboding. </p>
<p>Few schools are need-blind for international applicants, so the ability to pay is frequently important. Score and grade consideration is similar to that for domestic applicants: At schools whose admissions practices are generally holistic (all quantitative and qualitative factors are considered subjectively), they are holistic as well for international applicants. Your grades will still be viewed in the context of your school whenever possible. Admissions officers are aware that most international high schools have more grade deflation than those in America.</p>
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<p>Thanks for pointing this out. My knowledge was based on a few sources that agreed that the traditional synonymy of comprise with include was the sole acceptable sense of the word and that comprised of would therefore be illogical or redundant. I see elsewhere now, though, that there is growing acceptance of the phrase comprised of as an idiom meaning composed of. It appears that comprised by is not yet recognized as correct by any source.</p>
<p>I would be surprised if such an evolving usage were tested on the SAT.</p>
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<p>Well, its already been more than four months, so Im afraid youll have to tell us how it went. Its certainly possible to improve the Critical Reading score substantially once you master the strategies I alluded to a few posts back. Its a section that requires great effort to prepare for and improve, but significant improvement is within reach for the student who indeed exerts that effort.</p>
<p>Reading a lot, especially with a skeptical, analytical attitude, is a helpful habit for doing well on the Critical reading section. The most efficient practice, however, is to simply dig in to some official practice tests.</p>
<p>I hope you were able to improve your score.</p>
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<p>If you have ample time before you must take the SAT, I would say to move to timed practice only when you believe youve maxed out your ability to slowly answer the questions. If you have less time, youll need to work on speed sooner than that, but you should still dedicate one to two months of preparation to exclusively untimed work for question mastery. </p>
<p>In order to get the benefits of both styles of preparation, make sure that even when you time yourself, once time is up, go back and slowly answer any questions you think you missed before you check the answers.</p>
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<p>I havent used it. Others on CC who have Im sure can give you their opinions. $150 is obviously excessive, though.</p>
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<p>The sentence is merely three independent clauses whose verbs are in a list. Kenneth described, explained, and assured. When the verbs are listed as such, each one must be parallel. In this case that manifests as each being in the simple past tense.</p>
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<p>If she is a senior, shell have already received her results, in which case I hope she was accepted somewhere she thinks shell enjoy. </p>
<p>In deciding where to apply, you seem to be focusing a bit much on where her application would be accepted rather than where she would like to go. Her scores are obviously phenomenal, and the GPA is good enough for almost any school, considering that it is the product of an upward grade trend. (Freshman and sophomore years, especially the former, are less important.) I dont know the rest of her application, such as the vital element of her extracurricular contributions, but from what youve provided she would be a competitive applicant anywhere.</p>
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<p>Which should be changed to who. Your thinking that which and that modify objects rather than people (for whom who is used) is correct. Note, however, that it is not - to be precise – the travelers number that reached the Americas (this is merely a retrospective conceptualization of individuals as a single unit) but instead the travelers themselves.</p>
<p>The adjectival clause which reached the Americas modifies travelers, not The number of travelers, so we should write who reached the Americas.</p>
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<p>I chose to attend Brown but went on leave during my first semester. I may enter Columbia this fall as a member of the Class of 2017. Those whove scored extremely well on the SAT and/or ACT dont really travel in clustered flocks to colleges, among those I know. They are of course most prevalent at the most selective colleges.</p>
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<p>Sorry about that. I have addressed relatively few of my PMs over the last months and have almost completely disregarded the many requests for my self-chancing tool. I still have the updated version ready to share, if people continue to hold interest. Itll probably be available for download online sometime soon. Ill post about it in this thread.</p>
<p>My inbox should be ready to take new PMs now.</p>
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<p>Pre-med school selection need not, in my recommendation, differ much from that for any other interest. Colleges with particularly collaborative student bodies, smaller classes, and attentive professors will make the road to medical school more pleasant. </p>
<p>Above all, though, whether you get into medical school will be dependent almost entirely on your GPA, MCAT score, and extracurricular involvement. You can achieve favorable credentials along those dimensions no matter where you attend. Colleges with many pre-medical advising resources and research availability may help you gain access to more interesting extracurricular opportunities; very challenging curricula will ready you for the MCAT better; and colleges with grade inflation will help out your GPA.</p>
<p>I hope you have found an undergraduate college you like, where you can prepare to be a doctor without too much stress.</p>