Summit Language Institute:
SAT Writing
Are High School Students Prepared for College?
As of September 2011, only 43% of high school students nationally who took the SAT were "college ready," meaning they scored at least 1550 out of a possible 2400. This score of 1550 indicates that a student has a 65% chance of getting at least a B- in his first year of college.
The picture painted by national ACT scores isn't much better: for high school students who took the ACT (a mandatory test in Illinois for students in the 11th grade) in 2011, only 25% met four key benchmarks in English (a score of at least 18 out of 36 - 66% of all high school students met this), reading (at least 21 out of 36 - 52% of all high school students), math (at least 22 out of 36 - 45% of all high school students), and science (at least 24 out of 36 - 30% of all high school students).
So, that brings us to these crucial questions:
- Is your student ready for college?
- How well would he do on the SAT or ACT?
SAT Writing
In 2005, the SAT was expanded with the inclusion of a third portion in addition to the verbal (now, "critical reading") and math sections. This third portion consists of a multiple choice section, in which the student has to identify sentence errors, and an essay.
This SAT Writing prep course will provide a grammar review for identifying sentence errors, and plenty of practice exams and essay writing.
The class meets at our offices an hour a week for 12 weeks.
Please contact us for details regarding schedule and price.
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