2012 - 13 SAT I

(Taken Junior or Senior years)

U.S. registration dates and deadlines

*Note: Subject test(s) may be taken on these dates only

Important information for U.S. registration deadlines

• U.S. deadlines apply to students testing in the United States and U.S. territories.
• U.S. registration materials that are mailed must be postmarked by the U.S. deadlines. The deadlines expire at midnight, Eastern Time.
• On March 12, only the SAT is offered.
• Sunday administrations usually occur the day after each Saturday test date, for students who cannot test on Saturday due to religious observance.
• The Language with Listening Tests are offered only in November.

The alternative test to the ACT. Although the ACT is now widely accepted, including at Ivy League Schools.

The new SAT includes three areas, each scored 200-800 (2400 total)

• Math Section 70 minutes (two 25 min sections, one 20 min section)
  Content: Number and Operations; Algebra I & II and Functions; Geometry; and Statistics, Probability, and Math Analysis
• Critical Reading Section 70 minutes (two 25 min sections, one 20 min section)
  Content: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Completions, and Paragraph-length Critical Reading
• Writing Section 50 minutes
  Content: Grammar, Usage, and Word Choice in multiple choice questions and a 25 minute written essay.

We offer one-on-one instruction for the SAT. We recommend a minimum of 10 hours for the verbal and 8 hours for the math.

Dr. Chippendale and Dr. Moss ($95/hour).

SAT II Subject Test

(Taken Junior or Senior years)

• Hour-long subject exams required by some colleges. The tests measure a student's knowledge in a specific subject area.
• Subject tests are offered in five areas: English, History and Social Studies, Mathematics, Sciences, and Languages.
• Subject tests are used for both admission and course placement.
• Instruction is available in Writing, Literature, Mathematics (Level IC and IIC), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French, and Latin.

The GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) is a standardized, three-part exam designed to help admissions personnel evaluate students for graduate business and management programs.  The test measures basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills.

This computer adaptive test that takes 3.5 hours to administer.

ANALYTICAL WRITING Questions     Time

Analysis of Writing                          1             30 min.
Analysis of an Argument                 1             30 min.

Optional break 5 min.

QUANTITATIVE 37            75 min.

Problem Solving

Data Sufficiency

Effective August 1, 2011 the structure of the GRE test will be changed.

The GRE revised General Test places a greater emphasis on higher-level cognitive skills.  Featuring new types of questions, the new Verbal Reasoning section of the revised test more closely reflects the kind of thinking you'll do in graduate or business school, and better measures your ability to understand what you read and how you apply your reasoning skills.

Computer-Based revised GRE

The Computer Adapted GRE contains six or seven sections:

• One Analytical writing section
> Includes 2 writing tasks, which always come first in the test.
> You are allowed 30 minutes per task.
A strong vocabulary background is essential.

• Two Verbal Reasoning sections
> approximately 20 questions per section.
A quick overview of each section is recommended before you begin. Here's what is new for the Verbal Reasoning section:  Antonyms and analogies have been removed from the test, so there are no questions that test vocabulary out-of-context.  New Sentence Equivalence questions test your ability to reach a conclusion about how a sentence should be completed while focusing on the meaning of the whole sentence.  There are more Reading Comprehension questions on the test, including new types of questions, such as selecting multiple correct answer choices instead of just one, or highlighting a sentence within a reading passage to answer the question.

• Two Quantitative Reasoning sections
> approximately 20 questions per section
> multiple-choice questions
> numeric-entry questions
The content is based on high school level math.

• One unscored section
> typically a Verbal Reasoning or Quantitative Reasoning section, that may appear at any point in the test.

• One research section
> this will always be at the end of the test.

Instruction available at Focus on Learning Center:

One-on-one instruction is the most beneficial and cost effective preparation. We use your previous GRE score or an on-line test taken at the Focus on Learning Center as a base score. Your individualized program will be set up based on
• your goal score
• the requirements of your graduate program
• your consultation
(the program may range between 4-20 hrs with trained subject specialist-coaches)

For more detailed information, goto: www.ets.org/gre