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An SAT orientation that breaks down the test section by section

A detailed walkthrough of the layout, [...]

Prime Factorization: My single favorite topic on the GMAT. It’s not even a contest.

My passionate (some would say evangelical!) advocacy of prime factorization results not only from my finding prime numbers so inherently fascinating in and of themselves, but also from the plain and simple truth that prime factorization proves surprisingly useful on questions on which prime numbers aren’t even mentioned.

For example, any time you’re given a question asking about multiples and factors, you can bet that prime factorization will help you get to the answer quicker.

Case in point — this Data Sufficiency question from the Official GMAT Guide:

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Knewton Launches First Online SAT Prep Course to Use Adaptive Learning Technology
Affordable, Interactive Test Prep Course with Advanced Capabilities Provides Students Around the World with the Resources They Need to Ace the SAT
New York, N.Y. — March 2, 2010 — Knewton, a leading online educational company, today announced the launch of its new SAT prep [...]

Data Sufficiency questions are often difficult to get used to, because they require an adjustment in your approach to math problems. When you went through math classes growing up, the end goal was always “Find the value of x” or “Find the area of this circle.” You were asked to give hard responses to these questions, and nothing mattered more than finding a definite value.

With Data Sufficiency, answering the question does not matter as much as the ability to answer the question. You are not primarily concerned with the final answer, but rather whether you have enough information to get you to that answer. For example, if you’re asked to find the value of x, and a statement tells you that 300x + 257 = 1345, you know that this statement is sufficient, because you can perform arithmetic on that equation to isolate x. Are you going to perform it? No, because it’s too complicated and you don’t need to! All you’re concerned with is whether you can find the answer.

The two portions of the Writing section on the SAT test the same rules. At Knewton, we break them down into a list called the Freshman 15. Your ticket to a sweet score on this section is to learn these rules. Think about it this way; if someone could give you every list of vocabulary word that could possibly be tested on your exam and you could ace the sentence completion section by memorizing a list of about 15 words, you’d be ecstatic, right?

What’s even more exciting is that the simplest rules, the ones that are the most easily memorizable, are the ones that are tested on the “hardest” questions. Why is that?

Rich is one of Knewton’s expert teachers, and his strategies can really boost your SAT prep.
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No matter how much practice you do, and no matter how much you try to anticipate exactly what SAT test day will be like, you can’t really know what it’s like until you go through it.  I should know: I’ve [...]

This is the first post from our friends at Word-Nerd.com. Vocabulary study is a big part of our SAT prep course, so we were excited to hear their thoughts on the subject.
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How important is vocabulary study on the SAT? This simple question has recently become the subject of a great deal of debate in the [...]

Our friends at GMAT Club released a handy iPhone app a few months ago.  If you’re on the go, you can still get extra Quantitative questions, time your practice tests, and learn from their detailed user forums. Last week it was in the App Store’s “What’s Hot” List, so it’s a great time to get [...]

We’re getting closer and closer to the launch of our SAT prep course. In the meantime, here’s a real-life tip: You have to learn SAT vocab words, but you don’t have to use them.