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1. Offer a diagnostic test, so YSB will know your strengths and weaknesses
2. Review the areas you don’t remember or haven’t learned yet, from geometry’s 7-24-25 perfect right triangle to probability.
3. Show students how to answer algebra questions without doing algebra.
4. Teach grammar, from parallelism to the comma splice
5. Focus on only the key grammar issues that appear on the test
6. Show even slow readers how to get through a passage quickly
7. Point out the various types of reading questions and how to attack each type of reading question
8. Teach students how to read short passages, short paired passages, long paired passages and single long passages. (The different passages require different techniques.)
9. Use mnemonic devices to help students remember information for all sections.
10. Help students improve SAT essay writing, which is quite different from the essay writing you learned in English class
11. Teach students how to exploit the multiple-choice format
12. Show students how to eliminate answer choices.
13. Show students when to guess and how to make the best guess
14. Help students pace themselves
15. Provide students with vocabulary books, cartoons and flashcards proven to boost vocabulary
16. Offer students exclusive YSB-developed calculator software to help with the math section — software that can be used on test day
17. Evaluate the student’s progress
18. Tailor work to the students’ shortcomings
19. Keep parents abreast of progress
20. Focus on the quickest ways to boost students’ scores
21. Relieve test-related anxiety
22. Teach in a way that engages students
23. Design the workload to accommodate students’ schedules
24. Give students the encouragement to work hard and boost their scores dramatically.