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SAT Writing Test Preparation

Many students, for various reasons, are petrified of the newly required "Essay" section of the "regular" exam, or the SAT I. Many students do not realize that they already have many of the skills necessary to address, expound and compellingly conclude their essays in their own styles, in the allotted time, and receive high marks.

At BrainTrust, we will teach you:

  • How to think before you write
  • How to best introduce, develop and conclude your essay
  • How to stick to topic
  • How to best use your 25 minutes: analyzing, planning
  • How to outline your major thoughts using literature and history you are very familiar with.
  • How to know when the quantity is just as important as quality

Session Content

We can help you maximize your writing skills and scores, paving the way to clear, interesting topics you can relate to your own life. Since topics proposed on the exam are almost always very broad, we will show you how to best use the 25 minutes allotted for the essay. Depending on your current strengths and skills, our sessions will often deal with outlining skills, grammatical reviews, punctuation assessment, and/or sentence/paragraph construction.

Prior to the test, we will provide many drills and sample SAT exam questions, where you can start putting into practice the skills you have learned. It is important to feel confident as you take the written section. Whether you need a refresher in grammar usage or paragraph correction, or even an in depth critique of your essay skills from topic sentence to conclusion, our tutors can increase your score.

BrainTrust Tutors scored in the top 10 percentile of all SAT test takers, and they are ready to increase your confidence relative to best arguments, relationships between text passages, knowledge of genre and comparatively selecting the best response among multiple "correct" answers.

Students need to be reminded that the new SAT essay only counts 40% toward your total Writing score — in other words, a little more than ten percent of your total score. We do not ignore the multiple choice questions, as they still pose more than half of the total Writing score. We will make sure students spend at least as much time preparing for these more predictable questions as for the essay itself.

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Contact BrainTrust today to discover how our unique approach to SAT Writing test preparation can help maximize your child's SAT score.