Wednesday, July 30, 2008

7/29 SAT WORK

Book: 7 Days to a Better SAT Score ( Day 4)

Topic: Math Section

Score: 6 pts out of 6pts! ( Student Produced Responses Section)
    4 pts out of 5 pts! ( Practice Exercises)

We learned about:
-Making connections to everyday life
-Cutting down on everyday errors
-Fractions
-"Time Cheating" - quickly solving problems without diving into heavy calculations
-Plugging in answers
-Picking your own numbers
-Picking set numbers

Time: 9:24- 10:41 pm
About 1 hour and 17 minutes 

Challenging Level : Easy - Medium
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Book: Cliffs Math Review for Standardized Test

Topic: Algebra Diagnostic Test & Algebra Review Cont.

Score: Algebra Test: 45/56 :[

What we learned /went over:
-Set theory ( i sorta forgot it so it was a nice review)
-Exponent / Exponent rules ( adding, mult)- forgot some stuff so i refreshed my memory
-Factoring
-Inequalities 

* Less careless mistakes on this one... More of what i forgot and rules i didn't remember which brought me down on my score

Time: 
-Algebra Diagnostic test took 28 minutes for 56 questions
- Rest of the lesson took 24 minutes

Challenge level: Easy to Medium ( just forgot somestuff)




3 comments:

KVK said...

Hi,

1.5 hours isn't enough. See if you can push it to 2-3 every day. Your little spongey brain can absorb a lot more than that.

Nice work on the essays. Take a little bit more time to summarize the lessons you learned in more words so that I can understand what you mean by cutting the corners. I also didn't know which questions you got wrong, so please take more time to describe those.

KVK said...

Also remember that 4 points out of 5 points is not a good score on the math section. Eventually, when you take this test for real in less than 2 years (yes, its that close!), you will be striving for not getting ANY questions wrong at all on the math section, and maybe 1-2 questions wrong on the others.

Don't be harsh on yourself if you get questions wrong, but make sure you actively diagnose WHY you got them wrong (even if it was a careless mistake, actively diagnose it)

Kapil

KVK said...

Finally, what kinds of questions did you get wrong on the 45/56? what were those 11 questions like? was there a principle you didn't understand? what was it?