This system is a comprehensive course for teaching the fundamentals of SAT Mastery. Our Accelerated SAT Mastery program is the fastest and most impactful SAT prep program available online or offline. It combines the best of everything your teen needs to succeed on the SATs.  We teach:

• Mastery of the content and reasoning process for all sections on the SAT
• Time management
• Stress management

In addition, we provide coaching, support, and engagement strategies to ensure students get maximum value from the course. Our easy, flexible logistics allow students to complete the course on their own time within six months, using any tablet or computer with an internet connection. For more details click here.

You have six months to complete the online course.  Coaching is included for the first six weeks, and we strongly recommended that students complete the course in that time to maintain focus.

By signing up you will have three days to evaluate the program, and if you decide it is not for you just let us know and we will promptly refund your purchase price. Student results vary according to each student’s time invested, study skills, commitment, and innate skill. Some students who complete this course choose to supplement their SAT prep with additional individual coaching.

Yes.  It covers the Writing Skills, Reading, Math with calculator, and Math without calculator portions of the SAT, as well as the essay in depth.  Students can do a light review or a deep review of any section depending on their personal needs and interests.

There are three published full-length tests included in the course.  Upon completing the course students will be shown how they can practice on many additional exams.

All materials are provided.  Students who complete this course may buy a book from the College Board with additional practice exams.

Yes. Parents will receive several updates as their kids progress through the course. In addition parents will get video tips emailed to them as their kids proceed through the course with helpful suggestions on how best to support their kids.

Your child should start prepping for the SAT as soon as possible.  Students that begin early tend to do much better.  We have personally taught quite a few students who began in 8th grade who eventually scored in the top 99% of the country.  It helps them in school as well, builds their confidence, and takes pressure off the higher stakes academics from 10th through 12th grade.

Yes, it will.   This system is very adaptable for students to proceed at their own pace, pausing and repeating lessons as often as needed, and even speeding up or slowing down individual lessons, and helping them to stay motivated. We give special attention to managing and even overcoming test anxiety.  For learning disabilities, one of the most important things to do is obtain a special accommodation, which usually means your teen will have 50% additional time on the test, which makes a huge difference on test day.  The College Board has a very specific qualification process for this which takes additional time. So start early if you are seeking this accommodation.

Yes. This system is designed to work with students of all levels. We show them how to customize the course to fit their individual needs, whether that’s math, grammar, writing skills, critical reading, or sentence completion/vocabulary–or all of these.  By customizing the course, each student can advance in the fastest and most efficient way possible, rapidly whittling down the areas of confusion. The course is designed to move quickly towards integration and mastery.

Yes, students may revisit any part of the Accelerated SAT Mastery online course for a full six month period.  The office hours and group coaching are available for the first six weeks of enrollment, and we urge students to complete the course in that time.  Students who complete the course in less than six weeks will have more time to focus on practice tests and improve their integration.

Generally, most students should take both the SAT and the ACT. Once they hit their target score, then they really are done, since there is a direct conversion scale between the two tests.  Keep in mind that the SAT and ACT both factor into the decision for merit-based scholarships with many schools and foundations.  Almost every school in the US accepts both, and very few schools prefer one over the other.  This system will prepare you for the SAT primarily but there are some transferable skills.  Most students who do additional prep for the ACTs do it as a supplement, modifying and tweaking what they learned for the SAT for the ACT.   For more information click here.

We generally recommend you do both tests.  Most kids will generally test around the same on the two tests, and since they carry so much weight in college admissions and take little marginal time prepare for, they may as well do both, and see on which they are able to achieve a higher score.  Often students will focus more on one or the other, however this is often a matter of preferring one style to another or because they have scheduling or logistical issues that make one test more convenient.  Students with more lead time will tend to want to do both, while those with less lead time may have to choose only one.

The simple answer for that is yes. Most colleges consider your overall trajectory in school, so they look primarily grades from sophomore year, junior year, and half of the senior year.  However, colleges use the SAT as an additional reference point, since school grading is subjective. For this reason, the SAT often carries considerable weight in the application for admission; in some cases, it is weighed as much as all of the grades from high school combined. So if you did poorly in school, the SAT provides an opportunity to tilt the scale in your favor with the least amount of effort.

Make sure you get the easy points on the test. The questions are for the most part in the order of increasing difficulty. Hard questions are not worth more points–they are just harder! Teens should aim to collect as many points as possible and not waste valuable time on problems that are unlikely to yield additional points. We cover this in more detail throughout the course.

The test itself takes about 4 hours with the essay portion. The biggest time investment is the prep, not the actual test. Some students will only need a few hours of prep time while others may need up to 40 hours.

You should start studying as soon as possible.

Most students see significant improvements between their first and second diagnostic tests. This course is designed to be both structured and self-paced. The core strategies are taught in the first five modules.  These are reinforced and reviewed again in the sixth module. Upon completion of the course, students will be directed to additional study to fully integrate and master the material. Every student is different, but most students appreciate having additional time to prepare, so it helps to start as early as possible, and have time to practice skills on additional practice tests.  Some students do as many as 10 additional practice tests to refine their skills and reach their personal maximums.  It’s better to start early.

There are three published full-length tests included in the course.   Upon course completion students will be shown how they can practice on many additional exams.