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Veritas Tutor's SAT tutoring services are structured to address the unique needs of each student.  We begin all tutoring relationships with a diagnostic test and qualitative assessment by an expert instructor todetermine the student’s particular strengths and weaknesses.  This diagnostic forms the foundation of the plan that we then create.  While we cover all subjects, we will first spend the most time addressing areas where the student has the most potential to improve.

All of our tutoring is based upon these three major facets:

1) Content Review: students will learn and review concepts and processes that are required for success on the SAT.  The tutor tailors the exact content review to the student’s needs based on the diagnostic process and ongoing assessments.  Concept review includes such topics as basic algebra, geometry, and problem solving in math, vocabulary, efficient reading, and question-type analysis in reading comprehension, and essay construction, subject-verb-agreement, and dangling modifier identification in writing/grammar (and a lot more!).  The purpose of this phase is to ensure that students have the building blocks required to solve the problems posed to them on the tests.

2) Getting Used to Content in Test Format: Problems on the SAT are rarely addressed in a modular and linear fashion.  Thus, students must learn to integrate the different content and processes they learn, as well as develop an understanding of the common problem types emphasized on the exam.  The purpose of this phase is to familiarize students with the actual problems and the multiple concepts and processes they will have to use together to solve those problems.

3) Practice and Review: Finally, when students are comfortable with the component concepts and skills required for the SAT and how they are meant to deploy those skills for individual problem types, students will learn to address the test holistically.  This section will emphasize timing and how to judiciously create an individualized strategy for guessing and leaving questions blank if necessary.  Students will also be exposed, in this phase, to the rigors of the   full test and pitfalls that they may encounter.  This phase also serves as theee final review for phases 1 and 2.

The key to the Veritas method is the emphasis on building a student’s confidence by breaking the test down to component skills and methods and giving students an intimate understanding of how to approach problem types that they understand, as well as problem types that they have never seen before.

This linear, logical, and graduated method addresses the needs of students on all levels.  The overlapping nature of the phases allows students to smoothly transition through the different topics in tutoring while retaining the comfort of a graduated curriculum.  The result is that the student feels more comfortable with the test, gains confidence to approach novel problems, and develops important problem solving skills that they can use beyond the course.

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