<p>Hi, I'm from Canada and am curious about if U.S. schools prep their students for the SAT at all? And if so, how?</p>
<p>My school does not, as the midwest focuses on the ACT. For that, my school offers review sessions after school (for a small fee) during the several weeks leading up to the administration of the test required by our state. I haven’t attended one yet; but I doubt their effectiveness, considerating that most preparatory classes are not very effective and that the instructors for these were teachers at my school who are largely ignorant of the test.</p>
<p>Silver, can you check your PM?</p>
<p>^ Sorry; I’ll reply shortly.</p>
<p>so silverturtle, what kind of school are you in? For example, my school is kind of ■■■■■■■■. I don’t have any choice. My parents work here. there is no magnet school, nor academically good private school. how about yours? just curious.</p>
<p>My school does nada, their focus is on FCAT (which is a complete joke)</p>
<p>My school offers after-school sessions for people who want to study for the SAT - at a price, of course. Also, my school pays for the PSAT freshman, sophomore, and junior year.</p>
<p>Public schools offer SAT prep? I guess California’s budget crisis is worse than I had thought. At our school, there is absolutely no SAT prep offered by the school (save for about 50 copies of Barron’s SAT 2400 distributed to the first 50 kids that go to the library to ask for one).</p>
<p>My school does nothing besides strongly encourage us to take the PSAT.</p>
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<p>My school is a public high school of about 2,000 students. We’re the best one in the area (there are a couple similarly-sized ones nearby that are not as good). The top fifteen students are quite competitive, but there are still quite a few bad students. In terms of academic offerings, my school has a decent number of AP classes, but we aren’t allowed to take any until junior year, and the required P.E. class eats into the number of slots. Plus, many classes that the schools says are offered are not (lack of student interest); and most are offered only one hour, so there are many scheduling conflicts that preclude taking the AP classes.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t do much. They offer these courses for english and math during the summer, but they’re not too beneficial. We did the Kaplan workbook for math, which helped slightly, I suppose, in preparing us as to how the questions come, and the english practice helped zilch. Nada. Gave us a vocab list and told us to memorize, did a bit of practice - wasn’t good though - and you know, just stuff you can do (and better) alone. The courses were absolutely unnecessary. The teachers, while good at their subjects, weren’t all that helpful. The math teacher obviously knew it all, but did not tell us anything about how the SAT is different than normal school math, and neither did the english teacher. Generally, even I know more about the SAT than they do. The standard for the SAT here is so low it kind of depresses me, so if I ever get that 2300, I might start offering courses to help (no charge, not interested in that stuff).</p>
<p>I go to public school in Massachusetts.
-Sophomore year and junior year PSAT testing is required. I, along with about ten others, took the PSAT in freshman year as well. Only english and math honors students were offered that option for freshman year.
-As of this year, in junior english classes and algebra 2, SAT prep is mandatory once a week over the course of one term.
-All juniors have an english SAT prep book. All algebra 2 and pre-calculus students have a math SAT prep book.
-All algebra 2 students and all juniors had to sit through a practice SAT in March. Juniors had to sit through a second one in April.
-SAT prep happens with daily questions in english in junior year. Same with MCAS prep.
-On the school’s news, a daily SAT question went up for a few weeks. It kinda stopped…
-We have an SAT prep class that is one semester long that anyone can take. It’s free and part of the regular school day.</p>
<p>My school is trying to make itself a ‘choice’ school so it’s trying to appeal to more people. We don’t have high SAT scores or AP scores and no one has ever gone to an ivy league school. But we’re getting better. Which is why we’re getting all these things.</p>
<p>thanks guys, for posting about your school. I feel I need to read some of these from good cc guys to get my spirit up and make the best out of what I can get. I certainly am the top list in my school but somehow I don’t think that means much because there’s basically not much competition. cc makes me feel challenged and I really like that feeling.</p>
<p>hahah im a bit late but thanks every1 for sharing your schools’ approaches to the SAT!</p>
<p>I was basically interested in seeing whether or not an international student would be given any extra kudos for doing well on the SAT. I’ve concluded that probably not, as although some US schools do mandate prep (e.g. shewas’), not all do.</p>