About the SAT
What is the SAT?
According to the College Board, the SAT is "a measure of the critical thinking skills needed for college." We disagree. The only thing the SAT really tests is how good you are at taking the SAT. Students who do well do so not because they are better at "reasoning" than their peers but because they understand the questions that the test covers and employ specific strategies that make those questions easy to answer correctly.
What We Teach
Our "SAT Game Theory" curriculum leverages the predictability of the SAT to raise your score 250 points or more. Rather than focusing on the broad content areas that the test makers claim the SAT measures, we teach the skills, strategies, and tricks that have delivered real test day success for thousands of students.
| Test Section | Myth | Fact |
|---|---|---|
| Math | SAT Math tests all of the math you’ve learned in high school. | SAT Math tests only a small number of pre-selected concepts in the same way every time. |
| Critical Reading | Doing well on the SAT Critical Reading requires you to learn thousands of new words. | Only 19 of the 67 questions on the SAT Critical Reading test vocabulary. |
| Writing | It’s all about the essay. | The essay accounts for only 30% of your Writing grade. The other 70% is multiple-choice. |
| Overall | The SAT tests how smart you are. | The SAT is deceptively simple and highly predictable. By learning how to take the test, anyone can raise their score |