Your teacher is correct. The excerpt is only there if you need some help thinking of ideas. It doesn not need to be incorporated into your essay in any way.

Maha, ePrep’s scale is very similar to that used by the College Board. That being said, I tried to make the tests at the end of ePrep’s course mildly harder than real SATs. I hope this information helps you gain some perspective on where you are in the preparation process.

I have a couple more quick questions to ask, but I’ll post them tomorrow morning, seeing as it’s pretty late right now. I just wanted to drop by a quick inquiry:

How accurate are the total and the subset (M/CR/W) scores for ePrep’s practice tests as opposed to the scores you get on one of the CollegeBoard’s practice tests? As you know, the scores you get on CB’s practice tests somewhat resemble what you would get on test day..at least that’s what many people say. ^^; I was just wondering if this is the same case with ePrep. If I got, let’s say, a 1650 on one of ePrep’s practice tests, does that mean I would get something close to that score on test day? Or is it a different case (e.g. ePrep’s Practice tests are harder than the real thing, easier, etc.)

I’m just curious, since I’ve made some “goal” scores I want to reach for M/CR/W, and so, I want to know if the practice tests accurately predict my improvements or not. =)

I hope this isn’t too much of a personal question. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to.

Oh, and congratulations on the score increase Kevin! I hope that my encounter with the SAT next Satuurday will be my last one.

Thanks!

Maha

Thank you so much for your kind comments, tips, and advice. I guess you’re right – I will mainly focus on the problems that I got wrong/skipped, with exceptions to questions that I got right but that I am curious about. I will do my best to follow them in the remaining 10 days before the exam. Your videos are a lot of help to me; I learn a great amount of information in such a short period of time. I wish my motivation wasn’t so unbalanced though..

I will keep you posted if I have any more questions (I’ll try to ask as much as I can before test day!) Thank you and keep up the great work!

Maha

First comment: Please review the answer explanations immediately after taking a given practice test. You will learn much more efficiently if you do so.

Second comment: To speed things up, you can always fast-forward through my introductions and simply skip my closing comments.

Final comment: Do not burn yourself out. As the time for the test draws near, you should seriously consider simplifying your review – watching only the videos associated with problems you skipped or answered incorrectly. Sometimes, if you study too much detail, you essentially know nothing in the end. Be careful not to lose sight of the big picture. Part of your goals as a student should be learning with the intention of becoming a more interesting person. And becoming a more interesting person is supposed to be fun. As I work on ePrep, I continually remind myself to have fun. If you do the same, you will be much happier and better off in the long run.

I hope my advice helps. Good luck.

I just have two more quick questions to ask you:

1. I have about roughly two weeks left until my second SAT in November. I’m currently using “ePrep for the SAT” as part of my preperation, but the thing is, I have about five more tests left to complete/watch videos for (I also have some other videos left to watch from Test #1). When I review a section, I like to watch all the videos (including the correct ones), so it takes me quite a long time (I start with the incorrect/skipped videos first though). Do you have any advice as how to go through each video in a section more quickly but still learn the material efficiently? It takes me really long to finish reviewing one section, and I like to review my correct answers as well, in order to get a solid grasp at some new techniques. What should I do in such a short period of time? (I would also like to cover all the remedial videos as well before test day – I’ve started on some though).

In short, this is how I review an incorrect answer/watch a video:

- I watch a video about twice.

- Then I watch the corresponding remedial videos twice (if I come across one I’ve already watched, then I only watch it once).

- Then I redo the problem again without looking at how to solve it, watch the video one last time, and move on.

As you can see, my method of review takes quite a bit of time, so I was wondering if there was a faster and yet efficient way of covering a section.

I’m just wondering, since I’m aiming to complete one practice test a day, while reviewing my answers the next day.

2. Are the difficulty levels on the practice tests for “ePrep for the SAT” the same as those found in CollegeBoard’s tests (i.e. would an ePrep test score closely resemble the score I would get on test day)? Or are they slightly harder/easier than them?

Thank you so much in advance, and sorry if this post is a bit long! ^_^;

Thank you for the quick response. Your post helped me a lot, and your quite welcome. =)

Maha