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Private Tutoring:
takes place
at our school in Central, on a mutually agreed schedule.
Whether a student needs only verbal or only math help, or a
full SAT course, we are ready to help with
one-on-one attention to your child's needs. Private tutoring
allows three advantages over a class:
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Direct supervision
- the tutor can monitor the student's progress at all times.
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Scheduling preference
- the tutor can meet at a time convenient to you.
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Tailoring - during a lesson, and within the course as a whole,
the tutor can adjust to the student's individual learning needs.
Fees for private tutoring
- $590 per hour.
Small
Group Tutoring:
is an
economical alternative. If you are in a position to put together
a small group of students who'd be interested in taking a SAT
course together, we are happy to accommodate you. In many cases,
two, three or four students have joined to take advantage of the
course, thus substantially reducing the cost of private tutoring
because the hourly rate of the instruction is split among the
students involved. If your son or daughter has friends who are
at a similar academic level, as diligent as your child and have
similar aims, this small group tutoring option presents a great
way to maximize your results while keeping your costs low.
Fees for small group tutoring (hourly) - 2 students, $420
per student. 3 students, $380 per student. 4 students, $340 per
student.
For 40 hour course -
2 students, $15,000 per student. 3 students, $13,400 per student. 4
students, $10,800 per student.
Full Classroom
Courses:
with a
maximum of 8 students in one class, our course is the most
comprehensive and intensive available.
SAT classes are
structured as a 40 hour course, consisting including practice tests. The total course length
is 10 weeks and is made up of 2 x 2 hour sessions per week.
Fee for classroom course
- $8500
(Approximately $200 per hour) (Plus $300 for the text book)
About the course:
The course is designed for anyone preparing to take the SAT. It
is intended to strengthen your test taking skills so that you
can get a score which truly reflects your ability. We introduce
you to the format of the you SAT and guide you to develop test
taking strategies including managing test panic, increasing
confidence and speed. A review of test content includes math,
algebra, geometry, reading comprehension, grammar and essay
writing. You will receive weekly practice with real, timed SAT
test selections. By the end of this 40 hour course you should
have:
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Become familiar with the SAT format, including test directions
and scoring.
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Refined critical reading and thinking skills tested by the SAT.
Developed an individual test taking strategy.
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Learned how to apply the strategies taught in this training
course.
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Increased your test taking confidence and reduced your anxiety.
Many non native English speakers have particular difficulty with
the Verbal section in the SAT (Sentence Correction, Reading
Comprehension and the Essay Writing section). Hence we have
designed a course which takes this issue into consideration
concentrating on verbal strategies and practice while also
covering the quantitative section.
Topics and areas covered will include:
SAT MATH - The Quantitative
Section
The
Mathematics section of SAT is widely known as the Quantitative Section. it
consists of three scored sections. There are two 25-minute sections and one
20-minute section, as follows:
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One of the
25-minute sections is entirely multiple choice, with 20 questions.
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The other
25-minute section contains 8 multiple choice questions and 10 grid-in
questions.
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The shorter
section is all multiple choice, with only 16 questions.
The
quantitative comparison questions on the math section have now been omitted from
the SAT, leaving only questions with straightforward symbolic or numerical
answers. Many test-takers felt that these quantitative comparison questions were
well-known for their deceptive nature—often turning on the student's recognition
of a single exception to a rule or pattern— so this omission suggests a
philosophical shift away from "trickery" and toward "straight math" on the SAT.
Many test experts have attributed this change, like the addition of the new
writing section, as an attempt to make the SAT more like the ACT (American
College Testing program). There is certainly a correlation between ACT scores
and SAT scores.
In Math (Quant), the SAT preparation class covers topics in Arithmetic, Algebra
and Geometry. The SAT classroom course lays special emphasis on learning
different math shortcut techniques that will save time while solving math
problems.
Around 15 top level topics are covered in the theory classes. In each of the
topics, basic concepts are taught and are followed by examples solved in class
that are representative of questions that appear from these topics in the SAT
test.
SAT Writing Section
The writing
section of the SAT, based on but not directly comparable to the old SAT II
subject test in writing, includes multiple choice questions and a brief essay.
The multiple choice questions include error identification questions, sentence
improvement questions, and paragraph improvement questions. Error identification
and sentence improvement questions test the student's knowledge of grammar,
presenting an awkward or grammatically incorrect sentence; in the error
identification section, the student must locate the word producing the source of
the error or indicate that the sentence has no error, while the sentence
improvement section requires the student to select an acceptable fix to the
awkward sentence. The paragraph improvement questions test the student's
understanding of logical organization of ideas, presenting a poorly written
student essay and asking a series of questions as to what changes might be made
to best improve it.
The essay
section, which is always administered as the first section of the test, is 25
minutes long. All essays must be in response to a given prompt. The prompts are
broad and often philosophical and are designed to be accessible to students
regardless of their educational and social backgrounds. For instance, test
takers may be asked to expound on such ideas as their opinion on the value of
work in human life or whether technological change also carries negative
consequences to those who benefit from it. No particular essay structure is
required, and the College Board accepts examples "taken from [the student's]
reading, studies, experience, or observations." Two trained readers assign each
essay a score between 1 and 6, where a score of 0 is reserved for essays that
are blank, off-topic, non-English, not written with a Number 2 pencil, or
considered illegible after several attempts at reading. The scores are summed to
produce a final score from 2 to 12 (or 0). If the two readers' scores differ by
more than one point, then a senior third reader decides. The essay score
accounts for roughly 30% of the writing score; the multiple choice component
accounts for roughly 70%.
The areas covered under this section would be Improving Sentences, Identifying
Sentence Errors, Improving Paragraphs and Essay Writing. Rules of grammar and
common usage will be taught in the class alongside improvement of language and
application of the rules of the language. Essay writing techniques and the rules
of essay writing will be delved into in great detail.
SAT Critical Reading Section
The Critical Reading, formerly verbal, section of the
SAT is made up of three scored sections, two 25-minute
sections and one 20-minute section, with varying types
of questions, including sentence completions and
questions about short and long reading passages.
Critical Reading sections normally begin with 5 to 8
sentence completion questions; the remainder of the
questions are focused on the reading passages. Sentence
completions generally test the student's vocabulary and
understanding of sentence structure and organization by
requiring the student to select one or two words that
best complete a given sentence. The bulk of the Critical
Reading questions is made up of questions regarding
reading passages, in which students read short excerpts
on social sciences, humanities, physical sciences, or
personal narratives and answer questions based on the
passage. Certain sections contain passages asking the
student to compare two related passages; generally,
these consist of short reading passages as well as
longer passages. Since this is a timed test, the number
of questions about each passage is proportional to the
length of the passage.
Students will be trained to handle Passage Based Reading
questions and Sentence Completion questions under this
section from the basics to an advanced level. Learning
to use your word power effectively will be addressed as
part of classroom exercises for this section. The tutor
will take students through the correct answers and
explain each step involved in arriving at the answer.
Techniques and tips to solve questions faster will also
be covered in the class.
Test Details: ( for a more in
depth look at what is involved in the SAT test read
Preparing for SAT in Hong Kong)
Course Times and Dates:
The following courses will begin from
Saturday 24th January 2009
Booking forms
- click link
Textbook,
You Must bring this book to the first class! You
will start using it immediately.
The primary textbook used in this
course is "The Official SAT Study Guide",
published by the College Board, ISBN #0-87447-718-2.
The cost of the text book is $300. It will be used immediately in your
classroom activities. ITS will supply the text books
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ITS is currently taking bookings for all three
options.
Please contact us for any further information
about the SAT or help with other parts of the application process
to US Universities and Colleges.
info@tuition.com.hk
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