Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

THE SHAPE OF THE TEST The Math Test is broken down into two sections: one 55- minute section with a calcu ...

through a new Math Test will also reveal a lot more words. In the new word problems, the Testing Serpent ...

MENTAL MATH TRICK 1: TENS AND ONES The first trick is simple. If I say “What is 346 plus 211?” You can ...

and subtraction, go left to right; ditto with multiplication and division. Here’s a handy-dandy graphic for yo ...

3 Its digits add up to a multiple of 3. 186. 1 + 8 + 6 = 15 15 = (3 × 5) 4 Its last two digits ...

Another arithmetic cheat: Check the last digits. If you’re multiplying two large numbers, you can figure out what ...

19 361 20 400 25 625 So if you see a problem involving the number 169, your “square-sense” should be tingling! ME ...

Digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Units Digit: the digit in the one’s place (5,32 6 ) Integer: any numbe ...

In word problems (which most SAT problems are), certain English words usually refer to certain basic oper ...

How much does each person get? A quiche (pronounced “keesh”) is an eggy pie thing with cheese and ham ...

Now, as you can see, everyone has three slices of quiche. Each slice is a fifth of a quiche, so every ...

Simple Rule: Flip the bottom fraction and multiply it by the top fraction. Simple? Well, actually it is. Yo ...

Here are some problems. Make each complex fraction into a simple (regular) fraction. Practice the Si ...

nearest Coldstone Creamery is 500 miles away. If it takes them 10 hours to get there, what was their ...

After some practice, multiplying and dividing units will be as simple and as natural to you as multiplying a ...

Divide the second thing/the first thing. The great thing about units problems is that it is not necessa ...

That’s why I now use Oxford Anti-Elephant Soap. It not only keeps those pesky pachyderms away, it also ke ...

This is when our number line really comes in handy. We start, as always, on our first number, 5, but now ...

What this is saying is that when x = 4, y = 3. What happens if I double the x? Well, if we d ...

A probability problem is a ratio problem in disguise. When a problem asks what the chance is that a par ...