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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here.   Pressed send too soon.   The more advanced math will do absolutely nothing for the SAT.   The higher concepts are not touched in the slightest.   I’m a former Math SAT teacher married to a math professor.   I can assure you there is no calc BC on the SAT. [/quote]

Second this. I'm also a former SAT/GRE teacher and BASIS parent and SAT math concepts go through arithmetic/proportions/algebra/geometry/probability and occasionally coordinate geometry. Absolutely no pre calc or calc topics on the SATs.

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ha - this is amusingly accurate.  My current calc BC sophomore ("A"s every grading period) did very well (approaching national merit scores) on the 10th grade PSAT .. . but her math score was lower than her English score, I think b/c she is a bit too removed from algebra/more basic concepts!  She doesn't care for English, so it was bizarre that she had practically a perfect English/language arts score  and a surprisingly lower math score (again - a great score - just lower than English).  I will have to get her to practice algebra, etc. before the 11th grade PSAT![/quote]

PP here -- I can see that happening! I'll definitely help my kid relearn algebra/geometry before he has to take the PSAT/SAT, since BASIS teaches it so early. Fortunately that's one thing I'm actually professionally trained to do (had to reteach this to many adults, it can be done in about 3 weeks!)[/quote]

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