Anyone know if the SAT questions of the day being released by college board are novel material or whether they are simply recycling questions from Khan or the 4 released practice tests? I’m more concerned about the practice tests because they won’t be so useful if kid does half the questions beforehand. Thanks.
I wouldn’t worry about questions bring recycled.
S2 took each of the 4 College Board free practice tests TWICE. So he saw each question twice. That was the full extent of his SAT prep. No prep course. No private tutor. No Khan Academy. No memoring words.
Big whoop that he had seen the questions before. The key thing was that he immediately knew how to approach the question/problem rather than wasting time. His speed increased w each practice test sitting. On the real test, he said he finished each section 10-15 min early-- enough time to go back and revisit questions he was uncertain about. He had a strong performance on the real test.
Total prep cost was $20 for one (largely unused) study guide book, plus the printing cost for hardcopies of the pdf practice tests.
I am not a big fan of the Khan materials, but there isn’t much available for the new SAT.
I disagree with you about the practice tests. I think if the kid sees the questions before it’s going to be easier for them. I’d rather it be more representative, so that we know whether my kid can do all the questions in the allotted time and can work on pacing which is the biggest issue for her. She reads slowly and being afraid of not finishing the first practice test, she rushed and misread a number of questions.
Granted for many kids the issue is that they don’t actually know how to do the problems, and in that case, repeating problems could be helpful–if they didn’t get it the first time, they learn and can answer it the second time around with a generally applicable benefit to the practice of recognizing how to answer the type of question they previously missed. That’s not our situation however. Almost all her errors are due to misreading questions. Immediately knowing how to approach the problems will throw off her timing when she has to answer novel questions. And I expect she will remember the problems she misread. For example in one problem she overlooked the word “dozen”. Next time I expect she would remember that, but I don’t think redoing that problem is going to help with other problems. She knew how to solve it but was off by a factor of 12.
I can confirm that SAT question of the day is definitely not from the 4 released tests. I totally enjoyed this app.
Then don’t misread the questions
Wow, that’s a pretty glib and rude way to dismiss a kid’s issues.
That’s not glib; that’s focused advice.
You say you’ve identified the chief cause of her errors. She needs to focus-- not on polynomials, not on vocabulary-- but on reading the question carefully.
Yes, we realize that, and I am saying that re-using the test questions is not going to give her the kind of practice she needs.
Other students who face different challenges may find it valuable to take a second shot at questions they didn’t know how to do the first time around.
You appear to be far ahead of the game in identifying what to focus on. Most people have no idea at all.