SAT® Test Prep: Students

life conquer the world and someday become president or not

it's a bad gig really okay onto the meat in

order to use shmoop here's what you got to do

Sign into shmoop with your user name and password you

probably created your account sometime in the not too distant

past but if you fried your brain watching too much

reality tv and can't remember whether your password is chocolate

monkey or monkey chocolate still click on the log in

in length instead of putting in your user name and

password forty seven times hoping that somehow that will fix

things just clicked the forgot password link Well fedex a

new one over or better yet send one in the

mail step two or do for your people in french

class Click on a big surprise in drum roll this

is where you do your training if you've had the

good fortune to have access to more than one shmoop

test prep guide unit You will see everything you own

listed on my passes This is like a pass to

a football game or disneyland but sorry in advance we

are way less exciting than a good football game or

disney Now alice you have officially falling down the shmoop

rabbit hole and have arrived in a wonderland We like

to call the dashboard intimidating Right Then our should look

simple It s a t training were like call of

duty Modern warfare This would be your h Q You

have everything you need here Mental wait's brain weaponry and

full rations of s a t know half So what

do you do first How best to tackle the beast

That is the well First enter the date of the

you're planning on taking the number of days you have

until the exam will then appear in the top right

hand corner of the dashboard and we'll be your constant

friendly reminder When you log in you only have twenty

two more days until you face off with the get

your game face on your dashboard looks pretty empty at

this point it's time to fill it up first things

first the diagnostic our diagnostic test is like getting a

little less naked Check up the doctor and we'll let

you know how healthy you are don't worry if you

score on the low side that's what we're here for

and whenever we figure out how to deliver a virtual

lolly pops you'll be the first to know you should

take the full diagnostic but for brevity of this training

video will show you the math Click here then here

sort of deal you will be timed and it will

be scary never fear the diagnostics are shorter than the

actual exams but they're definitely justus hard if not harder

When you're going through the exam if you need to

guess or come back to answer you can mark that

question when you're done sitting in a flurry of eraser

shavings and you scrap paper Or perhaps you've just worn

down your keyboard keys a little click i'm done and

this will bring up your diagnostic report Unlike many a

book report you delivered in your youth this report is

monumentally important It shows you which answers you got right

Which you got wrong And even how you did overtime

Cool The most important number here is your raw score

and projected score And if you click here it shows

you what skills you own and what skills you need

to work on We're dropping more data than r two

d two his math teacher which means you are now

ready to tackle the topics You may save this report

You can also send it to your teacher It's a

review topics tap here you will find anything and everything

you need to study for the start with the overview

knowing exactly how the testes set up is just a

cz important is knowing what's on the test This isn't

the terms and conditions page on your most recent itunes

upgrade So read it all the intro the do's and

don'ts and the q and a section next move on

to the real meat of the subjects If you had

trouble figuring out how much math homework john forgot to

dio you can hop right over to the algebra and

numbers word problems section and get the complete low down

This is perfect for topics that you covered years ago

Geometry anyone be sure to check off when you've read

a section for your own records When you feel comfortable

with a topic drill it to access the drills head

back to the dashboard and click drills I know that

shocking the drill questions air set up like the practice

exam but aren't time moved to any skill and drill

until your heart's content you will always be able to

look at answer explanations and save your work so that

you can review past reels Once you have reviewed reviewed

and reviewed some more then drilled up a storm you

should be ready for a practice exam These air full

length and the real deal feel free to sit down

and take a full one that'll be a whopping three

hours and forty five minutes so make sure you set

your dvr to record that episode of american idol We

love steven tyler around here or take sections to get

your timing down Our practice is just like taking the

actual exam and may even be a bit harder so

get ready to let your brain sweat let's take a

section together Now when you've finished you can see your

results check answer explanations and save your work You could

even send it to your teacher or mom or best

friend or dog if he or she has an email

address If you didn't deliver a gold medal winning performance

don't worry there are five full length exams tons more

drills and more review to be done As you get

your study on take time to go back to your

dashboard it'll show you how many shmoop once you've earned

and how many topics drills and exams you've covered it

will even show you how much you've improved or sucked

worse just keeping it real here baby remember that diagnostic

exam that was your baseline Now that you've done a

lot of practice the dashboard will show you how much

progress you're making hopefully and where you still need work

Keep studying until you feel like you could take the

with your eyes closed but don't do that Eyes open

good eyes closed bad didn't mr me on he say

that anyway uh then make sure to take the test

with your eyes open Good advice We're here to help

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