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Literature's hard for non-natives. A lot of schools don't cover it very thoroughly either. I'd suggest reading a lot of 19th century stuff and onward. Edgar Allen Poe, Hemingway, some Wordsworth, Frankenstein (great book too after the first few chapters), F. Scott Fitzgerald. I find a lot of the stuff they use comes from those eras and if you can read those you can handle just about everything. Read to get good

@@score-yourcollegecounselor Yeah , I have already seen some of the poems on the test back in my school days😂😂 Am getting in the range of 600 , pushing towards 700. Thank you sir🙏❤️

I don't think that'll be an issue, though to be honest I don't have any solid evidence for or against it. Generally I think they ask you what device you plan on bringing just to make sure you acknowledge that you have a device that actually can run Bluebook. So it's more of a legal thing than an actual restriction. I can tell you that the schools I've worked with on DSAT day have not checked students' devices when they come in, but not every place does things in the exact same way

@@score-yourcollegecounselor thank you!

What exactly was Marxist?

@@score-yourcollegecounselor the first 5 minutes of the speech before I walked out. You Tube tos prevents a proper discussion.

Yes, you can do that. While tends to be used without a comma when you're talking about two actions happening at the same time. If you're using it for contrast, it's more common to use the comma before, though it's still not required. I was walking down the street while I was listening to music. (two simultaneous actions) American cuisine prominently features beef, while Indian cuisine usually avoids meat due to cultural differences.

For sure, the test isn't going to change. The digital SAT is basically the same every time, and each individual in the test room is getting different questions anyway. So all these "what's going to be on the test this time" videos are total BS and I have no idea why people make them other than clickbait.

Lol I'm very familiar with Pennsyltucky as I grew up in Monongahela, and I'd say Lancaster counts as "rest of PA". Most people who aren't from the US think of PA and think of Philly only.

@@score-yourcollegecounselor Oh ok, that makes sense; I guess most of us who grew up in Eastern PA just think of anything west of the Susquehanna as the "rest of PA" lol... But like... why call it Lan Caster?

ngl sounds like a bit of a personal problem here, I mean if your grades are low naturally professors are going to be less likely to support your grad school application right away.

So there are problems on the SAT that use freedom units like feet, miles, etc. You don't normally need to know how to convert those units though, although it might be good to brush up on that quickly. Like an easy example would be to calculate the perimeter of a rectangle and the given sides might be in feet. So it's just adding them up. Also, you don't have to write the units in. However, most questions related to science or geometry will use metric.

1400 is great! You can definitely make up some room in English there. Sounds like you should practice on some hard modules too since that's likely where you're hitting the wall in the 2nd half just based off that score. And your math is totally within the margin of error to get higher, the difference between 740 and 800 can be like 2-3 questions

You're welcome! Hope it helps you organize some ideas, I have another one in the works

You're welcome! Glad you found them and that they're helping you out, SAT prep shouldn't have to cost a ton of money and I know it's already a major effort for a lot of people just to take the test in the first place, so every little bit helps

Thanks! Between growing up in a cult, moving to a developing country at 19, and working 10 different jobs since age 15, my life's been pretty weird. But weird teaches you a lot!

@@score-yourcollegecounselor No doubt about it. hope i could learn a lot from you, since am pretty weird myself lol.

You can just open up the one I made, go to File - Make a Copy and then you'll have your own you can use

Generally in order to enroll you need to have the minimum level they require because you will need to be able to understand the classes from the first semester. However, there are some universities that have Spanish language learning programs that you could do first to get better before you start studying

Thanks for asking (and timestamping)! So D (whereas) simply cannot work here because of the comma after the blank. We don't use a comma after whereas, though you would use one before it.

That matches up with what a lot of my cases said during the transition between 2022-2023. The old paper test had more questions and by not being adaptive, it was basically impossible to get 1500 without getting nearly everything right save for a few. Now you could get a hard module, whiff on half the questions, and still score 1500 if your math was perfect and your first EBRW module was good. It's a weird system but it's definitely more forgiving than in the past for 1300-1500. I find it harder to get those super high scores though since just one mistake can bring you down 30 points in some cases.

You could also use While here given the two events have happened concurrently in the same time. Kind of depends on whether you want to draw more attention to the contrast or to the fact that these things are happening simultaneously.

So far nothing major that I've seen, Bluebook added two more practice tests and the 6th one does seem a bit tougher while the 5th seems easier, but I haven't seen any new question types

So from Madrid to Segovia you can take the "cercanía" train which leaves out of Chamartin station in Madrid. There's a few each day so you can definitely get in before 11 and be back to Madrid by the afternoon. It takes about an hour. You can get to Chamartin from a bunch of metro lines. My one tip is don't book cercanía tickets in advance. We thought we were smart by buying them the day before, and apparently they're only good for same-day use, so just get to the station a little before and use the machines there to get your tickets. If you're on board 10-20 minutes before departure you're totally fine. Once you get into Segovia there are buses that'll take you straight from the train station into town. There are bus stops for IE university and Convento Santa Cruz that'll drop you off right at the door, although we got off at the Acueducto station just to walk up the hill a bit and take in the neighborhood. It's like a 20 minute walk if you do that. I did almost the exact same itinerary. Got into Segovia at like 9 something in the morning, left after lunch, got to Madrid around 4, and spent the rest of the afternoon at the IE Tower.

Is that the name of the line or the station? Here in Germany where I live, there is an app with all the trains, schedules etc. is there an equivalent in Spain? Thank you

Chamartin is the station you depart from in Madrid. Cercanias are like a specific kind of intercity train so there are cercanías for a bunch of places, when you buy the tickets you need to type in the destination so you get the correct fare and platform. I didn't really use any local apps, just Google Maps. You can get directions with public transportation there and it tells you exactly what stations and platforms to go to, so that's all I needed.

You know, I've visited over 30 universities, and that stood out to me too when editing. I personally don't care because hey whatever it's just a word and if it makes you happy fine by me, but I did notice that. A lot of the people there, mostly the women I interviewed did prefer to open with their pronouns. I haven't seen that just about anywhere else. Guess this isn't where you should apply to if that bothers you. And that's what these videos are for! I want you to get to know what it's like on campus, and if you don't like it, keep looking.

You made me remember just now too how funny it was towards the end. I went up to a group and kinda made a joke about how "as a guy" I wasn't sure what color to call their shirts (they were light purple) and their faces recoiled in shock at the comment lol

​@@score-yourcollegecounselor True. I went to this University and it just saddens me Western Students losing logic and reason. I assure you the top science universities in China and India are not wasting any time or electives on any of this. Those guys in the colored suits were not like this when I saw them during my Welcome Week 12 years ago. Im not even saying it's wrong, im just saying imo it doesnt belong in things like Engineering, Medicine, Chemistry, and things where clear minds matter. To be fair, now students are taught to say all this starting in high schools. But if i was some chemical or engineering company that cared about science breakthroughs, producing results and succeeding, I would NOT hire anybody thats in it just because of feminism, or culture, or sustainability. If thats what they told me during an interview or their resume. And they did not have these nonsense add-ons to programs. It was just a program in Engineering, or Chemistry etc. No Engineering and Culture program or the other nonsensical add ons. If you like that, go into Womens studies, or the countless Social Justice degrees they now have so students in the West waste their money and time. They probably cancelled the courses in Critical Thinking I had to take my 1st year, for these new ones. Thanks for the info, and it is useful for students to see to make up their minds where to go, or not go.

I hear you there, ultimately the point of an education is to prepare you for work. I've done a lot of counseling for engineering programs though and for the most part they're still the same. They don't require you to take any classes focused on gender or race or whatever, but they do offer them as electives. I don't see your critical thinking course as a requirement anymore though, and I agree that should be there. I took a classical logic course in my program and it was super helpful. I will say that I think those students earned their spots though, these days more women are entering education than men and it's not just because of diversity quotas. Universities are becoming predominantly female due to demographic trends. But I do find it concerning that as a society we don't see that as a problem for men. When women were underrepresented everyone took action, now it's the other way around and nobody seems to have a problem with that.

I used to use some PR material in the pencil-and-paper SAT back in the day, and it was precisely to provide an unfair challenge lol. I edited that out of the video cause it was already super long but I would save PR tests for the very end just to show what NOT to worry about and to remind people that sometimes a question just sucks and you should move on instead of panicking for 5 minutes. Glad you liked the video!

@@score-yourcollegecounselor yeah, they're just very extra! I've consistently scored above 1550 in my bluebook practice tests (peaked at 1570), and I took two tests on PR and landed a 1460 and a 1400 lol. I was so horrified with my results, but then I did some digging and found that their questions were a little much and had quite a few problems. Great content, super concise. You just earned a subscriber!

Totally my experience as well, and thanks for the sub! I got a lot of older stuff here that you might find helpful, and I got some new stuff in the works for 2024 applicants. Waiting on the IACAC conference to get some more inside info to share too so that'll be coming up soon.

? that was not the case for me for some reason, i found the math in princeton review much easier but that might just be me

@@elryen592 probably. It depends on you though. My June SAT result came out a few days ago and I scored a 1550 with a 790 in maths. I had a lot of trouble with princeton review maths. I just think princeton review can be very subjective, and it's not ideal for the test-taker.

Hey going from 980 to 1120 in practice is a big jump! Keep working at it, it takes time, but you got everything you need here between classes and materials to get ahead, good luck on the test!

Love you for making it that far :)

There's a mini test you can take on the site without signing up, but if you sign up for an account and go to buy more tests you should still be able to add practice test 1 to your account for free. At least it was working a couple of weeks ago

Probably because of Asian moms

Binge my stuff and crush it in June

So while you generally won't see questions like that on the SAT, I wanted to discuss the difference a bit here so I added that example. Generally, you could use a semicolon instead of a period for two clauses that are very closely linked in idea or theme, or if you have two ways of saying the same thing. Compare these: Lucuma is a fruit indigenous to (and very popular in) Peru; you can find it in every market nationwide. Lucuma is a fruit indigenous to (and very popular in) Peru. It's commonly used as a flavoring in desserts, although you can still eat it whole. In the first case, I'm still focusing on the idea of it being a fruit you'd find in Peru. In the second case, I'm getting more specific into how it is used. A semicolon wouldn't be as good of a choice in the 2nd case because we're moving on to a different topic.

@@score-yourcollegecounselor Thank you so much teacher, I understand!

In this case, we're not actually using the word "when" to describe the moment when something happens. In that case, you would probably omit the comma. In this case, we're giving another definition or explanation of the previous clause, which would work best with a pause. Also, A is definitely the best answer out of the 4, and sometimes on the SAT the "best" answer won't be the one that follows the rules perfectly, but is closest to it.

Just wanna say I am always happy to hear replies like these, and I think you've got a solid product out there that's definitely worth consideration. As you (and I in the video) pointed out, I was 100% focusing on mock tests and while I did try to take into consideration additional content that might be available, I wanted to try to keep it as objective as possible. Plus, it would have taken a LOT more time to really sit down and analyze every aspect of additional content and I wanted to keep this relatively straightforward. I was not aware that this was still in development (at least I didn't notice any obvious "this is a beta" messages when logging in), but it's great to hear you're adding even more value to the program and creating more content. Hit me up if you'd be interested in having me take a deeper look at what you've put together or getting some feedback.

The files are linked in the description, so you're welcome to just pull them up yourself. I'm explaining the method, the content's not what it's about, but I appreciate the feedback