Reply to Retake High SAT?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Retake High SAT?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He think he should be able to do better at verbal, is 730 low score for him?[/quote]

It’s possible. The conventional wisdom is that the verbal section is harder to improve on with tutoring than math, because it’s hard to teach reading comprehension over a short period of time.  However — the SAT is set up differently than the ACT, but my kid (who took the ACT) was able to make a considerable improvement on the English (grammar) portion (he brought it up from a 30 to a 35). He already had a 36 on reading, and he can write well, but the format of the grammar questions tripped him up somehow the first time around.  He was being tutored to bring his math score up (which also worked), but I think they spent one session on grammar and it made a dramatic difference. He also spent part of one or two sessions with the tutor on Science, and brought his score up from a 33 to a 35.  I would look at the details of the questions he missed and see if they are the type that would lend themselves to some “tips and tricks” from a tutor (e.g., grammar vs. reading comprehension”). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics