SAT Prep Classes at South Windsor High School

Last year, we ran our inaugural classes at South Windsor High School with great success. The school school saw considerable score increases in the majority of students who took our class in comparison to their PSAT scores. This year we are excited and determined to achieve the same success as last year.

We have spent thousands of hours working with students and developing strategies to help them to succeed on the test. Our track record demonstrates just that.

Course Overview – Cost: $400

Our 30-hour prep course at South Windsor High School costs $400, nearly a 57% savings off the same course we offer at our office in Clinton. This course spends 15 hours on the math portion of the exam, and 15 hours on verbal portion of the exam. The course spans five weeks, meets twice a week for math and verbal lessons. Each class is three hours. The books below are included in the cost.

We will run a total of four sessions at the high school. Two of the four sessions will meet twice a week directly after school from 2:30pm to 5pm. The remaining two sessions will meet twice a week from 6pm to 9pm in the evening. Our policy will be first come first serve for seating.

Please take a look at the upcoming class schedules and register online or contact the guidance department.

How We Teach

For all aspects of this high-stakes exam, students are given instruction followed by individual and group practice. Instructors also administer quizzes and full-length practice sections of the SAT. This allows instructors to identify areas in which students need improvement and provides both instructors and students with . If students do not improve their scores it is because either did not ask enough questions or do enough homework.

In our course we use visual aids to supplement instruction. An example of these slides is
included blow. Since problems are diagrammed in advance, we can cover more material in class, and instructors don’t have their backs to the students while teaching.

We teach the test through the eyes of Jimmy and Jane, the two test makers who have made up all of the math and verbal questions on the test. On the first day of class students learn that the critical reading portion of the exam is an open book test, the text is the answer sheet. They learn how to use the 3-2 Method that we created, and just how to read SAT text. Students see that the answer is not inferred from what they think the text is saying, but rather exactly what the text has stated. Far too often, inferences lead students to wrong answers. Once students begin to look at the text through our SAT lens they realize that three of the five answers have little to do with the text they just completed. We then show them why the right answer is right and the wrong answer can’t be right, according to the test. They learn the test’s ins and outs and the importance of building vocabulary: 15 vocabulary words that lead students to the correct answers are the difference between 650 and 800.