SAT Prep Curriculum: Topics Covered

• Subject/Verb Agreement (the most common grammar error!)
• Verb Tense Agreement
• Pronoun Clarity (Pronouns can be brutal on the SAT!)
• Pronoun Agreement
• Misplaced Modifiers (My personal favorite grammar topic)
• Logical Coordination and Transitions
• Parallel Structures
• Illogical Comparison (one of the absolute sneakiest grammar mistakes you’ll ever make!)
• Paragraph Structure and Flow

• Preposition Use
• Prepositional Phrases (and how recognizing them can up your score)
• Adjective and Adverb Usage
• “I” vs. “Me”
• Comperative vs. Superlative
• Which vs. Who
• Redundancy
• Passive vs. Active Voice (one of these is almost always wrong on the SAT)

Your student will benefit from an organized, efficient review of all 15 major grammar topics on the SAT!

• SAT-Specific styles of math
• Using “Unauthorized” methods math teachers hate
• Math Fundamentals (whenever necessary)
• Basic Algebraic Operations
• Basic Geometry: Angles, Triangles, Circles
• Arcs and Sectors of circles (Lots of students don’t get this!)
• Math “Vocabulary”
• Function notation and “nested” functions (commonly misunderstood!)

• Perimeter, Area, and Volume
• Pythagorean Theorum and Pythagorean Triples
• Advanced Triangle topics
• Turning Words Into Math Equations
• Exponent Rules and Algebra
• When to “guess and check”
• When to try their answers
• When to skip and when to guess
• Coordinate Geometry

• Probability
• Combinations and Permutations
• Sequences (the classic SAT math problem!)
• Weird Symbol problems (freaky if you’ve never seen them before!)
• Mean, Median, Mode
• Tricky Averages
• Slopes of lines
• Polynomials
• Factoring
• Absolute Values (most high schoolers find this topic difficult!)
• Plus many more - about 50 total topics