Help Your Child Prepare for the SATs

Unfortunately most colleges base their decision on whether or not to accept your child to their school on how well they do on the SAT's. The main purpose of the SAT's is to predict how well you will do in college. They feel that these scores will show them how well prepared you are to face the many challenges of school. The better prepared your child is the better they will do on this test. There are several things that you can do to help your child. First you need to work on your child's vocabulary skills. You can do this by testing them on how well they comprehend the meaning of certain words used in different forms. There are some very difficult words that appear on the SAT's, and your child should be prepared for them. Test strategies teach you critical thinking skills so you can analyze a problem and determine the right answer. 

Another idea is to work on refreshing your child's math skills. This would include Geometry and Algebra, as well as everything else they would have learned from their twelve years of school. Test taking strategies help you transform what you already know into higher SAT scores. The best way is to focus your efforts on a different subject each week. There are many places where you can take your child to participate in free SAT preparation classes. To find out what classes are offered in your area you can have your child ask their guidance counselor at school. They usually have a list of locations that are available to your child. If they can not recommend any places than you can try searching online for different locations. You can also visit www.collegboard.org to order some real SAT's practice tests.