The College Board hosted a webinar to share information about the SAT, how to prepare for free on Khan Academy, and how colleges are using SAT test scores for college admission. The webinar was hosted by Aaron Lemon-Strauss at the College Board and featured Eric Li from Khan Academy and Jim Rawlins from University of Oregon. Learn more at collegeboard.org/parents.
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Getting Ready for the SAT For Parents (Spring 2017)
1. Getting Ready for the
SAT® Parent Webinar
Aaron Lemon-Strauss, Executive Director, SAT Student
Success, The College Board
Eric Li, Program Associate, Khan Academy®
Jim Rawlins, Assistant Vice President, Director, Office of
Admissions, University of Oregon
2. • What’s on the new SAT®
• How to prepare using Official SAT Practice
• How colleges use SAT Subject Tests™
• How colleges use SAT scores from both tests
• Q&A
2
What We’ll Cover
3. 3
About the SAT
Evidence-Based
Reading and Writing
200-800 points
Math
200-800 points
SAT Essay
(separate scores)
• 4 Sections: Evidence-Based
Reading and Writing, Math
• Students now receive 3 hours
on the SAT® plus 50 minutes for
optional SAT Essay
• Scoring out of 1600
4. • The SAT is accepted by every college in the U.S.
• It measures what students are learning in high school and need to know
for college.
• It’s the only test that comes with free test prep for all.
• There’s more time per question than the ACT.
• There’s no science section.
• With the redesigned test, there’s no longer:
• A penalty for guessing
• “SAT words”
• A mandatory essay
4
Why it’s easier for students to
show their best work on the SAT
The right test
5. • Most juniors test in May or June.
• For the first time, students can test in August before school starts.
• Exams are also offered in October, November, and December .
• Most students who test more than once improve their scores.
• You can register now for the SAT® in June, August, and later.
5
When’s the best
time to test?
6. 6
Official SAT Practice
3.7 million unique users
1M+ linked accounts
2x as many students used Official SAT® Practice than paid for test prep
"If you don’t have money to pay for a class,
you’re usually just stuck buying a book or
you’re on your own mostly, so this time it was
really helpful that they had unlimited resources
basically for anyone.” –Maia, Washington, DC
16. • How does Official SAT® Practice work?
• When should students start practicing for the SAT, and how often should
they practice?
• What are some of the skills students need to focus on improving for the
SAT?
• What if a student doesn’t do as well as they’d hoped?
• What can parents do to support their kids using Official SAT Practice?
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Official SAT
Practice
17. • What are admission officers looking for in an SAT® score?
• Does University of Oregon require the SAT Essay?
• In addition to test scores, what do colleges look for in a college
application?
• What advice do you have for parents whose children are applying to
college?
• Is there anything else you want future applicants to know before applying
to your school?
17
The SAT and Higher
Education
18. Please submit your questions in the Q&A
module on the bottom right-hand corner of
your screen.
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Q&A
19. • More Information for parents
collegeboard.org/parents
• More information on the new SAT®
sat.org
• Official SAT Practice
satpractice.org
• How to register for the SAT
sat.org/register
• collegeboard.org
• @CollegeBoard
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More Resources
Also possible to use Khan Academy without linking to College Board.
Here’s the dashboard students come to, which shows previous scores as well current skills level. The College Board data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy® ensures that no student information is stored permanently by Khan Academy.
And once the student dives in, you can see here that the most important topic for this student to work on is right-triangle word problems. Because of a combination of how likely a topic is to show up on the SAT, and prior student performance, this is the skill that the student has the most potential to improve on. You’ll also notice a couple of other potential options for skills to work on, because Khan Academy has learned that if you only give the student one option, there is some chance that they reject it and then check out. Instead, better to give other skills options (in this case solving quadratic equations and quadratic and exponential word problems) so that they have somewhere else to go.
There’s also a full library of skills lower down on this screen for students who know exactly what they want to work on.
