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For those of you brave souls who are taking the SAT as I write and read this after you have finished the test, remember to buy this test back from the College Board. It servers as a great tool to study from if you don't get the scores you were after. You'll see specifically where you got beat and based on your mistakes you'll be able to identify the skills sets that need attention.
Want to add that it's not always skill sets. I worked with a young lady this summer. We reviewed the May test that she had taken and she realized that whenever she missed, she didn't miss once, she always missed three in a row. The obvious: when the young lady drifted, she really drifted. What she gained was self-awareness.
Last word on buying the test back for today: For most students taking the SAT is a little bit like having to shovel the driveway to get
the car out so they can go where they want to go. They rip through the test so they can move on; they have little memory of the specific questions, not to mention how the questions were crafted so as to draw them to the wrong answers. That's why you want to buy this test back. Taking the SAT does not prepare a student for the next SAT unless a student can learn from the test, and the only way to do that is to buy it back and carefully review it. That is one of the bright things to note about the January exam; it's one of three exams that student can buy back.
Now for those of you who are not taking the test today and are preparing for the March exam. Take a look a the question of the day issued by the College Board earlier this morning. I found it to be trickier than most, perhaps because it's a bit different from the usual SAT grammar question. When I took it at 10 a.m. this morning, only 45 percent of the people who had taken it had answered it correctly - this is most unusual; it's rare that fewer than 50 percent get a question wrong. Only the most motivated students are doing this on a Saturday morning before 10 a.m., and they tend to be the students with the highest GPAs. The point: if you get this wrong, learn from the mistake. Tomorrow, I'll give you a tip on how to spot this type of problem in the future.
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For those of you brave souls who are taking the SAT as I write and read this after you have finished the test, remember to buy this test back from the College Board. It servers as a great tool to study from if you don't get the scores you were after. You'll see specifically where you got beat and based on your mistakes you'll be able to identify the skills sets that need attention. 
