Alexander Miguel, TS#7

Last week I met with Khushi to help her out with SAT practice for the first time. She was to take the SAT just three weeks from that meeting, and wanted to work in as much practice as possible. We started with some reading comprehension questions, based on some short passages. I taught Khushi some test-taking strategies, like not reading the entire passage, just the first and last paragraphs and the first and last sentences of each body paragraph. This gave her enough information to answer most of the questions. She also highlighted some key phrases as we read. I encouraged her to skip over as much of the passage as she could, to save on time. After the reading passages, we worked on some syntax questions, like sentence parallelism and sentence style. These were significantly easier and Khushi was able to successfully answer every one. I think the biggest challenge for Khushi is not to get bogged down with unimportant details, especially words she does not know. I told her that if she does not know a word, to pretend as if it is not even there. 

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