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February 19, 2004 at 4:32 am #21619
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Participant[?]My son took the PSAT and scored great on the verbal section. But he has had trouble with the math. His score was extremely poor. Is there any suggestions for helping him to do better? Keep in mind we have had him in Math help outside of school and he seems to have difficulty with even basic math that he doesn’t seem to be able to improve much despite the fact that he tries very hard.
[:p]He is a Senior so I am not sure if there is much time. He would like to do something in the medical field, and his other grades are good to great? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
[8]He will need to take his SAT in the next few months. Will SAT courses help at all?March 11, 2004 at 3:12 pm #26666wwe
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Originally posted by utoh[?]My son took the PSAT and scored great on the verbal section. But he has had trouble with the math. His score was extremely poor. Is there any suggestions for helping him to do better? Keep in mind we have had him in Math help outside of school and he seems to have difficulty with even basic math that he doesn’t seem to be able to improve much despite the fact that he tries very hard.
[:p]He is a Senior so I am not sure if there is much time. He would like to do something in the medical field, and his other grades are good to great? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
[8]He will need to take his SAT in the next few months. Will SAT courses help at all?Take a math only class with a local tutor. Dont sign up for a full course.
May 27, 2004 at 2:42 pm #27043y82benji
ParticipantI’ve tutored a few students in math and the biggest thing is understanding that math and verbal don’t have to be very different. They are both just languages. Both have symbols, rules, and sentences (equations). Some people are just better at committing word relationships to memory than number relationships. When you read you don’t always get it the first time and you have to reread. Math is the same way. You should make sure your son is trying to solve problems in more than one way. When you are taking the SATs, sometimes you just can’t remember a method or it just doesn’t seem to fit a problem, but if you are used to finding round-a-bout routes to the solution then you might be able to solve the problem anyway. If you live anywhere near a University, I’d contact them to see if they have any math majors or other students that would be willing to help your son. Those students are people who are spending a lot of their time confronted with challenging problems and having to learn their way through them, so they might have some good tips.
July 26, 2004 at 1:40 pm #27663smartteaus
ParticipantHi I’m new to the forum, but I score very well on the SAT’s. My advice is to buy or borrow some SAT practice workbooks. Then sit down with your son and do the problems one at a time. Then look in the back to see how the book did it. Buy books form different publishers because they do them in different ways and then have your son pick out a way he is comfortable with. I personally recommend the Barrons books because they show the mathematical steps well.
July 26, 2004 at 5:10 pm #27668ParticipantThat’s really good advice – about using difference sources to see different solution methods. A lot of times you just have to get used to being able to find the way of solving that springs up best in your mind.
November 17, 2008 at 4:29 pm #35069ying
Participantwell SAT is not about how well you know the subject but how well you are taking the test…. it is about how your son going to take the test. one advise, try to plug in numbers whenever you can that helps a lot
December 5, 2008 at 6:29 pm #35129learninghelp
ParticipantThere are lots of free videos available onlineto help with the SATs. Studio4learning.tv has a bunch of free videos that might help your son. Good luck!
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