SAT Tips and Strategies

Free SAT notes by Brian McElroy

Posted 2021-07-11

Hello everyone,
It’s been few weeks since I posted any free SAT tips, so I went ahead and made some copies of my recent SAT notes (in PDF format) for students and parents to peruse:
studentSATnotes_summer07.pdf
All of these explanations correspond to problems in the College Board’s Official Guide to the SAT. If you don’t have this book already, you should!
Soon we are thinking of implementing audio explanations as well, to accompany the visuals.
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More Free SAT notes by Brian McElroy

Posted 2021-07-11

Attached is a free downloadable PDF which includes 17 additional pages of my personal SAT notes for high school students. All explanations correspond to questions from the Official Guide to the SAT.
These notes are a good resource for students, parents, or other SAT tutors who are looking to strengthen the quality of their instruction.
Soon we will include audio explanations as well, but for now, paper and pen will have to do!
-Brian
BRM_SATnotes_July31Aug1.pdf... Keep Reading

Free SAT Prep Videos on YouTube

Posted 2021-07-11

The McElroy Tutoring YouTube page for Free SAT Prep Videos has almost 20,000 views. Keep Reading

Brian's Comma Rule for the SAT Writing Section

Posted 2021-07-11

Hello to those of you preparing for the upcoming March SAT.
I’ve got a particularly powerful SAT Writing technique for you today. I came up with this rule because my students were struggling to understand how to properly use commas, and were getting SAT Writing questions wrong as a result. This type of error occurs frequently in the Sentence Improvement subsection of the Writing section, which is the first of three subsections (the other two are Error IDs and Improving Paragraphs).<... Keep Reading

SAT Writing Error #1: "You and I" vs. "You and Me"

Posted 2021-07-11

Please correct the following sentence:
“Jessica and me went to the beach.”
Easy, right? Everybody knows this one. It’s “Jessica and I,” not “Jessica and me,” you say. Well, yes, you are correct. Congratulations.
How about this one:
“Would you like to come to the beach with Jessica and me?”
Same error, right? Nope. This one is actually 100% correct. Why is that? Well, technically “me” is an object... Keep Reading

More Free SAT Notes 9/11/07

Posted 2021-07-11

I’ve been receiving very positive feedback from those of you who are downloading and studying my free SAT notes…thanks for the encouragement. It makes me want to keep giving them away!
As always, all explanations correspond to problems from the Official Guide to the SAT.
-Brian
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Why is the SAT scoring system crucial to your strategy?

Posted 2023-09-04

THE SAT SCORING SYSTEM is: A) weird B) essential to scoring well C) easy to understand D) hard to master E) all of the above The answer, of course, is E. Which result would you prefer on a twenty-question multiple choice math section of the SAT? Student #1: 12 correct, 8 incorrect Student #2: 11 correct, 9 blank Most would prefer student #1's results, because at least he/she received 12 points for the correct answers, right? Wrong. This is because incorrect answers actually LOSE students points ... Keep Reading

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