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1. 0:00Here's what you actually need to know.
2. 0:01First, let's talk some general tips.
3. 0:03Just some words of advice. First things
4. 0:05first, hide that timer. If you're one
5. 0:07who gets distracted easily, if you get
6. 0:09stressed out easily, if you're one who
7. 0:11has test anxiety, literally do yourself
8. 0:13a favor and hide that timer. If you hide
9. 0:15that timer, you're eliminating a
10. 0:17distraction. You're eliminating the
11. 0:19impulse to shift your focus from passage
12. 0:21to timer to passage to timer, and you're
13. 0:24actually giving yourself the chance and
14. 0:26opportunity to focus in on the questions
15. 0:28and passages right in front of you,
16. 0:30ultimately leading you to a better SAT
17. 0:32score. Let's talk the reading and
18. 0:33writing section. Lovely. Being a junior
19. 0:36in high school this year, who is
20. 0:37navigating through this SAT prep? Trust
21. 0:40me when I tell you that it's actually
22. 0:42not that hard. It really isn't. If you
23. 0:44got the strategies down, you know the
24. 0:45content, you're going to be fine. I
25. 0:47promise. Listen up people. Start at
26. 0:49question 15. Okay, let me tell you why.
27. 0:51The first few questions in your English
28. 0:53modules are something called your word
29. 0:55in context questions where basically
30. 0:56College Board is going to give you like
31. 0:58four random vocabulary words. Yeah, they
32. 1:01suck. Anyways, point here is you either
33. 1:03know it or you don't. If you choose to
34. 1:06start at question one and you don't know
35. 1:08the definitions, you're going to stress
36. 1:09yourself out. You're going to panic.
37. 1:11You're going to waste your time just
38. 1:13because you don't know what refute and
39. 1:15what concede mean. So, what are you
40. 1:17going to do? Start at question 15. These
41. 1:19are where you're going to find all of
42. 1:20your grammar questions, your writing
43. 1:22questions, yada yada yada. They're easy
44. 1:24breezy. If you know what you're doing,
45. 1:25if you're like, "Yeah, uh, I need a
46. 1:27refresher," check out this video where I
47. 1:29tell you guys some of the grammar rules
48. 1:31that you're going to want to know. If
49. 1:32you're one who's like, "Yeah, I want to
50. 1:34be familiar with the SAT vocabulary and
51. 1:36not walk in completely blank," then
52. 1:38definitely make sure to go and check out
53. 1:39my description and you'll find some
54. 1:40resources that can help you. Tip number
55. 1:42two for the reading and writing section
56. 1:43is to think like an MPC. Hear me out on
57. 1:46this one. The point here is instead of
58. 1:47overthinking these passages like we
59. 1:49overthink every single part of our life,
60. 1:51right? We're going to take these
61. 1:53passages for what they are and we're
62. 1:54going to think through them logically.
63. 1:56And here's how you guys can do that.
64. 1:57Okay. So, if you're one who's like, you
65. 1:59know what, reading comprehension and I,
66. 2:01we are not friends. Words just go in one
67. 2:03ear out the other. If this is you, you
68. 2:05know exactly what I'm talking about. If
69. 2:07this is you, listen up because right now
70. 2:10I'm going to show you guys how you can
71. 2:11tackle any reading comprehension
72. 2:13question thrown your way on the digital
73. 2:15SAT exam. Okay, so first things first,
74. 2:18we're going to hide that timer. I don't
75. 2:19even want to see you. And let's see what
76. 2:21we're being asked to find. Right. So the
77. 2:24question here asks, which answer choice
78. 2:26best describes the overall structure of
79. 2:28the text? So we're only going to focus
80. 2:30on the overall structure of the text,
81. 2:32nothing else. And my biggest tip here is
82. 2:34to actually read the sentences that come
83. 2:37before the paragraph. And I'll tell you
84. 2:39why. A lot of the time, College Board
85. 2:41gives you background information that
86. 2:43can help you understand the context of
87. 2:45what you're reading in the paragraph.
88. 2:46And so after reading just these two
89. 2:48sentences, you'll know that the
90. 2:50characters in the story are actually
91. 2:52neighbors who are secretly exchanging
92. 2:54letters to one another. All right, so
93. 2:55let's break this down. And just so I
94. 2:57don't butcher anyone's names, let's just
95. 2:59refer to the characters as A, R, and C.
96. 3:03All we know is that the letter was given
97. 3:04to the sister and then the sister gave
98. 3:06the letter to R, right? Who's the
99. 3:08receiver? And then we get a little look
100. 3:10into the chaos on the actual delivery of
101. 3:11the letter. And then the text ends with
102. 3:14the receivers's feelings of receiving
103. 3:16the letter. That sounds kind of weird.
104. 3:17So reading answer choice A, it says it
105. 3:20describes the delivery of a letter and
106. 3:22then portrays a character's happiness at
107. 3:24reading that letter. Yes. All we know in
108. 3:27the text again is the delivery of the
109. 3:30letter, the chaos of the delivery of the
110. 3:33letter, and then the receivers's
111. 3:35feelings towards that letter. That's it.
112. 3:38Answer choice B says it establishes that
113. 3:40a character is desperate to receive a
114. 3:42letter. It never talks about how this R
115. 3:45character is, you know, so desperate to
116. 3:47receive this letter. No, you are not
117. 3:49given any information on that. So, you
118. 3:51can immediately, you know, cross this
119. 3:52answer choice out here. Answer choice C
120. 3:54is actually a great example of a trap
121. 3:56answer. The first part of this answer
122. 3:58choice says it presents a character's
123. 4:01concerns about delivering a letter. You
124. 4:03know, after reading this text one time
125. 4:05through, you'll think, okay, you know,
126. 4:07this wasn't an easy delivery, right? So,
127. 4:10you you might immediately say, "Okay,
128. 4:12answer choice C is the right answer."
129. 4:14But where in the text does it actually
130. 4:17talk about what was in the letter?
131. 4:19Nowhere, right? You just know again the
132. 4:22delivery, the chaos, and the feelings of
133. 4:24receiving the letter. So, you can mark
134. 4:26out this answer choice. Answer choice D
135. 4:28says it reveals the inspiration behind a
136. 4:30character's letter. Guys, you don't even
137. 4:32know what was in the letter. Better yet,
138. 4:34you know the inspiration behind writing
139. 4:36it. So, answer choice D is not the right
140. 4:39answer, making A the correct one. So,
141. 4:41really, the reading and writing section
142. 4:43is all about taking the passages for
143. 4:45what they are. You're not inferencing.
144. 4:47you're not, you know, using background
145. 4:48knowledge to help you out and you're
146. 4:50just thinking through each passage
147. 4:53logically, right? You got to know your
148. 4:55grammar rules, but those are really easy
149. 4:56to learn. Other than that, it's really
150. 4:58just about pacing yourself so you can
151. 5:00actually have the time to think through
152. 5:02what's being tossed your way. Now, if
153. 5:03your problem is math, pre if you know
154. 5:06where you're lacking, like of the four,
155. 5:08you know, math topics that you're tested
156. 5:10on, you know, okay, my problem is
157. 5:12geometry and trigonometry. And on my
158. 5:15last SAT I got the question about the
159. 5:17arc length wrong. Right? So then you
160. 5:20know okay right now I need to go and
161. 5:22Google search. I need to ask my chatbt
162. 5:24how to you know find the arc length of a
163. 5:26circle. But if your problem is I don't
164. 5:30know anything. I don't know where to
165. 5:32start. What concepts do I even need to
166. 5:34know? Then I got you for a limited time
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170. 5:43list to the math topics that you're
171. 5:45going to want to know. If you're one
172. 5:47who's like, "Hey man, I just need the
173. 5:48resources. I need the material. I need a
174. 5:50place to start." Then check out my
175. 5:52description. I have linked for you guys
176. 5:53a bunch of the resources that I
177. 5:55personally used to study. I love you
178. 5:56guys so much and I will see you in my
179. 5:58next one. They're like