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VIRTUAL: Brainfuse Webinar Series: SAT Prep
Ready to boost your SAT score? These free workshops make prep actually make sense. The SAT Prep series breaks the test into clear, manageable steps and shows you the strategies top scorers use. Brian Stewart, author of Barron’s SAT/ACT prep books, will walk you through real shortcuts, smart ways to save time, and how to avoid the traps that slow students down.
Join one session or the whole series and walk into test day with confidence.
Please contact our reference desk or please register using this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JFUn39OJTIOQ-jQqWLf0kQ#/registration
PLEASE NOTE The Monday, March 9th session is a separate registration. To attend all sessions in the series, please be sure to register via both QR codes/links.
All Sessions from 6-7 PM Eastern Time
1. January 7: SAT Introduction. General strategies for the SAT, how colleges use the test in admissions, and similarities/differences between the SAT and ACT.
2. January 14: Reading—Information and Ideas. How to attack Central Idea and Detail questions, Evidence questions, and Inference questions.
3. January 21: Reading—Craft and Structure. Resources for building Vocabulary, strategies for Purpose and Text 1 & Text 2 questions.
4. January 28: Writing—Expression of Ideas. Understanding transition words and techniques for the Rhetorical Synthesis questions.
5. February 4: Writing—Boundaries. Thorough discussion of Commas, Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Apostrophes.
6. February 11: Writing—Form, Structure, and Sense. Conceptual review of misplaced modifiers, subject-verb agreement, and verb tense.
7. February 18: Math—Using Desmos on the SAT. The most helpful ways to use Desmos to save time and improve accuracy on the SAT Math.
8. February 25: Math—Algebra. Slope-intercept form, systems of linear equations, linear functions, and linear inequalities.
9. March 4: Math—Advanced Topics in Math. Working with equivalent expressions, systems of quadratic equations, and nonlinear functions.
10. March 11: Math—Geometry and Trigonometry. Area, volume, right triangles, circles, sine, cosine, and tangent.
This program is online on Zoom. After registering, you receive a link to the Zoom webinar at least three hours before the program.