SAT閱讀文法班介紹 SAT Verbal (EBRW) Class (SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing)

Mid-semester SAT Verbal Assault:

This weekend course focuses on the SAT reading and Writing (Grammar) parts of the test. There are four main reasons I’ve designed this course:

1)     In general, the verbal section is the hardest for students in Taiwan to master. This is especially true for the Reading section. SAT Reading is famously difficult, even for native speakers. What’s worse, reading is not a skill that can be improved short term: it requires consistent practice over many months or even years.

2)     Reading is the backbone of the entire SAT, including the math section, which does not test math in the way that it is tested in Taiwan. On the SAT, the math assesses reading ability much more than calculation. College Board’s philosophy is that it is very easy to memorize formulas, but it is much harder to read and understand the questions, and it is even much harder to think critically. The SAT, including the math part, is a test of critical reasoning. SAT math can be taught later in short courses, such as winter or summer courses.

3)     In recent months, the SAT has greatly increased the difficulty of the reading section. That means that the officially released tests are much easier than what students will encounter on test day, and therefore the officially-released materials are not 100% representative of the current level of difficulty. For this reason, I’ve chosen non-official Reading passages from a variety of sources and levels of difficulty (10 books in total). This way, it is possible to push students to a higher level.

4)     I’ve also included the grammar section because with prolonged training, the grammar section is the easiest one to improve. However, for most students, they need constant reinforcement of the rules of grammar to avoid making careless mistakes. Not only that, many of the skills used on the reading section overlap with those on the grammar section.

What I like about this course is that it provides a significant amount of practice: we all know that students learn best by first learning and then doing lots of practice to reinforce what they have just learned, followed by review and explanations. I’ve also designed daily homework: ideally, students will do a single passage in either reading or writing, 6 days a week. Spaced repetition is the key to long-term learning, and all students need to do is to discipline themselves to spend approximately 10-20 minutes every day on these passages. By doing so, they will build a solid foundation in the most efficient manner, without feeling like their workload has increased too much.

Best of all, the critical reasoning skills that students learn in this course will greatly assist them in their university studies, and help them avoid the high failure rates that international students who rely on ultra-fast methods (速成) experience.

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