New school year 2018-19 kicked off with the SAT Bootcamp!!! yay… For the first two weeks after the summer break, two wonderful women, Amanda & Kim, volunteered to teach us how to take the SAT.
“How to take the SAT”; as simple as that.
But, things turned out pretty fun. Wait, but before the fun, we had to take the PSAT digitally on the first day of school; then we can start the boot camp.
Clock ticking and two hours already passed; I didn’t realize the first class on the reading section with Amanda came to an end. So many words, so many strategies, so many readings… We went through the three main types of passages in the SAT: literary narrative, social science & natural science, and historical persuasive. Then we started to analyze 10 different types of questions and learned different strategies for each type of question!!!!
I personally found historical persuasive passage is the hardest to understand because I’m not native American and it is antiquated English that no one uses nowadays.
On the second week, our main focus shifted to writing and language section. Similar process: analyze questions types, learn the strategies, and practice it.
“Keep the hardest passage for last and if you’re running of time, make an educated guess.” – Amanda.
Shifted to the math section, Kim was here to teach us every shortcut we could take for math problems. We played games (math-related) and practiced lots of problems. We set goals for ourselves for how many questions we planned to get wrong (psychologically, it makes us feel less stress).
“In real life, you have to do the proper steps, but for the SAT, it’s shortcut.” – Kim
The teachers spoke really fast and we got tons of homework every day which fried us for these first two weeks; however, this depicts what our lives are going to look like in universities. It’s hard for high schoolers, but we have to be prepared for everything because the graduation is in two years’ time.
Despite all the work, we were able to create a strong bond with them. We’re so grateful for having you guys here.
