Sat Test

If you asked most successful professionals what their SAT experience was like, you’d get a myriad of different answers. The people who had good experiences taking the SAT more than likely spent a great deal of time preparing themselves for the exam.

The SAT exam changes from year to year, as the College Board adds different questions, but basically the format of the test remains the same. You’ll be spending twenty-five minutes on an unscored section of the SAT, which they use to test new questions. This section could be writing, math, or reasoning. However, the basic test remains the same.

I’ve talked about the SAT exam and how important it is in your pursuit of entrance into college. While a college or university does use the SAT score in their admissions process, it’s not the only item on your application that is important. You must also show them that you are a well rounded person, who has been involved in community service and leadership, a student who has mastered the ability to focus on school as well as extracurricular activities all the while maintaining a high grade point average.

One of the things a college admissions board likes to see on a student’s application are things that tell them about the student themselves, things that cannot be measured on an SAT exam or by any other test. Your admission paperwork will more than likely require you to write an essay about yourself.

You’ve probably been told your entire life that you ought not to toot your own horn, or in other words, brag about yourself and your accomplishments. This is one time where you should disregard that admonition. In your personal essay, you will want to highlight what makes you unique. If you’ve taken piano since you were five years old and play at a concert level, then write about how music has influenced your life and helped you achieve academic success.

Perhaps you’ve been on the gymnastics team all through school, as well as outside of school. Being fit and athletic can also be a boon to your college admission packet if you show them how this has helped you grow as a person and as a student.

Besides being a positive addition to your essay, your sports activities can also be used to apply for scholarships.

Whatever it is that you do and do well, is what you should discuss in your personal essay. There are also online aids to help you in your quest for the perfectly written essay. I’ll list some of these here for you to check out.

Some of these sites will charge you a fee for their help, other’s won’t.

http://www.college-admission-essay.com/comprehensive.html The Penn Group is an essay preparation aid that you can use in order to help you write the very best personal statement or essay that you can. This company helps students get into Ivy League universities.

http://www.admissionsessays.com/ Admissions Essays and Personal Statement Drafting and Editing is a company that promises to have Ivy League writers help you prepare your essay or personal statement.

http://www.quintcareers.com/college_application_essay.html Essay Edge gives you sample ivy league essays to look and study, as well as giving you a set of steps to take before you being writing your essay.

With so many students applying for a limited number of spaces in good colleges, you want to stand out from the crowd and one way to do that is to make your essay the best you possibly can.

Being in high school is as much a social experience as it is an educational one. There are always different kinds of kids in each high school and not every group of kids has the same goals.

In my high school we had the jocks, the nerds, the punks, the Goths and the goat farmers. I think you can pretty much figure out who the jocks, the nerds, the Goths and punks are, but the Goat Farmers might make you scratch your head in confusion. I’m sure you have the same kind of kids in your school; they’re just called something different. My high school had been built next to a large tract of land that was overgrown with bushes and tress and weeds. Before it went to seed, it had been a goat farm. The kids from my high school who liked to smoke and drink and party would cross the street to the old goat farm and light up during lunch or break or sometimes even when they should have been going to class. Hence they were dubbed goat farmers.

You may call the partiers in your school something different, like stoners, or dopes or something I’ve never heard of; whatever you call them, they are the kids that aren’t that interested in school. They tend to skip classes, not do their homework and basically eschew most things that would lead to having a high grade point average or the ability to land admission to a four year university. For whatever reason, these students simply aren’t interested in their academic future.

I almost forgot about the kids in drama and band. The jocks and the goat farmer types generally made fun of the nerds, the band members and the kids in drama. The jocks may have been very popular in high school and the goat farmers may have appeared to be having a great time, but after high school there’s not much of a future for such activities. If the athletic kids are very gifted, then perhaps they could land athletic scholarships and go on to become pros their chosen sport. However, for the stoners and goat farmer type students, their legal ways of getting ahead are quite limited unless they clean up their acts and go straight.

If you’re reading this blog, then I’m fairly certain you’re not a stoner or a goat farmer. You might be a member of your high school band, or orchestra. You know the value of music in learning and expanding your memory. You could be classified as a ‘nerd’ by your schoolmates and that’s just fine. You are interested in learning, in progressing and in going to college. This means you’re also looking for ways to get a higher grade on your SAT.