5 Ways to Know Your SAT Test Well

5 Ways to Know Your SAT Test Well 0SHARESShare Even before you start preparing for SAT test, it is necessary to know SAT well, along with its various sections such as SAT writing and SAT subject tests such as SAT Biology and SAT chemistry.  1-  Time Management: One of the critical aspects of the SAT test is time management. Solving SAT or any other competitive tests such as GMAT/GRE are all a race against time. The SAT test time management skills will make you a much better manager than what you are now. 2- Multiple skills, varying degrees: The SAT test is not just about one subject; hence it is known that a student should have multiple skills. If the student can write well then sure that student can do well in English SAT. This is to say that talent should be developed by developing your new skill-sets to manage deadlines and multiple skills. 3- Setting the right priorities:  You know you have a SAT test is due the next week on Friday. Focusing on a particular subject requires one to know what is expected from the student?Setting the right expectations from the online tutoring is essential but at the same time students also make their well-known presence by felt by asking questions and queries? 4- Setting the right expectations: You know, it will be difficult to have a perfect score but it is not impossible. Setting the right expectations will allow you more time to think over problems and appear them thoughtfully, one by one. 5- Know your syllabus: You are good at Math and science and you know the formulas. But you don’t know the syllabus. It is essentials to know all the 4 points along with the syllabus.   [starbox id=admin]

Physics Online Tutoring Can Rescue From Tough Physics Topics

Physics Online Tutoring Can Rescue From Tough Physics Topics Every child when is in school thinks of reaching college level. They think college to be a different place where they can live their life to the fullest. Movies always have a bigger impact in our lives. We always tend to get drenched into the life what is portrayed in movies. But it is not always possible. Movies can never be depicted in real lives and vice versa. It is very certain for all of us to know that movies do inspire us, but when you are a teenager then it inspires you more. You begin to think your life as an ongoing movie and move away from the reality of life. Every movie that has college life in it shows the life to be larger than life. In reality things are not as that is shown in movies. Yes, it is true that college lives are different from school days. You can play pranks, bunk classes, and go for outing and all such stuffs which is never possible during school life. But along with all these you also need to have studies beside it. Studies are a big part in college days as well. Without the help of studies college life lands nowhere. The number of subjects is very less in college life as compared to school. You have to concentrate on only one subject and its various parts. It is quite natural that during school days we need private tutors more than in our college days. School days help you to create our base and college helps us to make that base stronger. It is very essential that one should be very much dedicated towards their studies so that they can have a much better future ahead. Private tutors are very essential for any school student as school do not help anyone in that manner. Some amount of extra help is always needed for them to uplift their knowledge as well as grades. Nativities of private tutoring But with time everything is changing and thus the teaching process is also changing to a great extent. Private tutors are also least concerned about the students they are teaching and they do not belong to any responsibility of helping the student to get more support. This decreases and affects the grades of students largely. With lack of good and proper guidance they are not able to reach to a certain limit and fall off hitting themselves. A good guidance is very important at this high age. Without the help of a good teacher it is not at all possible for anyone to lead a better life. Private tuitions fail to provide you with all the facilities and guidance that you being a student truly deserve. Good opening for online tutoring services It is a situation of lot of pain as tension as now from where will you get some other help. But it is no more a cause of worry for you as with the advent of various technologies newer ways of help has been introduced. Online tutoring is an entirely new concept which is being liked by people largely and students are taking a chance to enroll oneself into these institutes to get help from them. The number of institutes is increasing day by day and this is helping students lot. Today internet is being used by all students and it is helping them. Physics online tutoring is also a great way and can be said as one of the easy way through which you can get into the nerves of the subject and the subject properly. It helps you to raise your marks very instantly and with ease. Online tutoring has many features that help a student and their parents to get attracted towards it. Let us now note down some of the features that will help them to know the subject better. The teachers who are involved with this process of online teaching make it a point to know the subject deeply so that they can know how to teach a weak student as well. They have lot of knowledge with the subject which they can pass on to their students. All the weak students can be benefitted by their teaching and can increase their grades easily. With the increase in their grades comes a high level of self confidence in them. This high level of self confidence helps them to lead a much focused and new approach towards life. The online teachers help in making you look deep into the subjects and not only with the topics but it also helps you to know the subject better. It helps you to complete your homework and get good response in the class by knowing the topic beforehand. The assignments and projects are also controlled by the online tutors and thus they turn out to be perfect in all respect. The no limitation to time is one of the best factors that online teachers provide you. When you are into no time bondage then you can explore and fly high. Whatever and whenever you have doubts, you can easily clear it off and this is because of the fact that you can attend the class whenever you want as per your convenience. The charges are very affordable for any parents to bear it. Today each parent wants their child to be better than other and they make every possible help to make it true. But sometimes due to high charges it is always not possible for each parent to afford such tuition classes. Online tutors bring relief in such cases with the amount that they charge. Every middle class parent also can afford it that easily. TutorPace and its help Today you will get many such institutes those who help you for a better life. But very few are there who conduct the entire process is a much better way than other. College physics online tutoring  is a service that is enlisted in TutorPace service list that is not found anywhere else.  

Encouraging Literacy Through Public Service

Encouraging Literacy Through Public Service Encouraging Literacy Through Public Service Many parents work hard to find ways to teach their children to be good citizens and caring people, but with a little planning, you can also foster your childs interest in reading at the same time. If you volunteer as a family or are looking for opportunities to help worthwhile organizations in your community, here are a few ideas that may benefit your child. Read in a siblings classroom. If you have an elementary school student and a preschooler, talk with your preschoolers teacher about having your older child read to his or her little brothers or sisters class. This is a great chance for both children to feel special and an opportunity for your older student to see how much younger children enjoy being read to. Work with organizations to help low-income children. Your child might be surprised to know how many children in the United States and around the world do not have access to books. Organizations like First Book (www.firstbook.org), a nonprofit that strives to provide books to schools and programs for children in low-income families, works in hundreds of communities across the U.S. You and your child can reach out to a First Book Advisory Board near you to find out how you can help. For other ideas, check with your local library. Share your books. Your child could get involved with BookCrossing (www.bookcrossing.com), a worldwide book sharing program. This program is a fun way for your child to celebrate literature by sharing and tracking books he or she no longer needs. Talk with your school or local library, too, for other ideas on how your family can share books you no longer want with organizations in need (or volunteer with those same organizations). Start a book drive. There are many great local and national organizations that strive to add to libraries inventories, give books to organizations in need (homeless shelters or nursing homes, for example) and get books into the hands of children. Check with schools and libraries in your area, and also check out organizations near you for ideas on how to start or get involved in a book drive. BooksEnds in California, Chicago Book Drive (www.chicagobookdrive.com) and Books4Cause (based in Chicago but serving the Midwest) are all great examples. Volunteer at the library. One of the best ways for students to serve their communities while gaining valuable exposure to books and literature is to volunteer at the library. Your public library likely has many opportunities for young students to get involved, such as read-aloud programs, childrens story times and other programs, special projects, shelf and display organizing, and materials sorting. Look throughout your school and town for opportunities to help others enjoy reading and encourage your student to get involved. The more you can incorporate reading into your childs daily lifeboth by having him or her read and fostering reading in your communitythe better. Of course, while these are great activities, there is no substitute for frequent reading. If your child is struggling or could use targeted help, call Huntington. We can develop a customized learning program to help your child become a stronger reader, which will help him or her learn to enjoy this wonderful pastime.

The importance of practice tests

The importance of practice tests Hello AJ Tutoring clients and friends! We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and youre ready for the busy December season of finals, concerts, and family gatherings.One thing on the minds of many juniors these days is getting ready for the March SAT. At this point, Ive already completed a couple tutoring sessions with many of my juniors and theyre getting ready to take their first full practice tests.Completing full practice tests is a great way for students to get the feel of the test and track their progress. Sometimes, though, a student will come to our next tutoring session with the test partially completed, or not done under ideal circumstances. This ends up partly wasting the students time, since we cant get an accurate idea of where hes at with the test. Which begs the question: what should it look like when students do practice tests for homework?If possible, we always encourage students to take proctored tests offered some Saturday mornings at AJ Tutorings Palo Alto offic e. Well tell students what to do and when, just like the day of the test. This takes guesswork out of the equation and gives accurate results. Plus, students get their tutoring homework done in one morning. Win-win!But if its not possible to come in for a proctored test, students should do the test at home, in an environment that resembles the testing environment as closely as possible (minus all the other stressed-out students). What should this look like?1. NO DISTRACTIONS! This is so important. Most high schoolers treat their phones like extra appendages. You cant have phones during the SAT, so dont have them out while youre taking a practice test. You can use the phone as a timer, but put it across the room. No talking, no texting, no Facebook. 2. Do the whole test in one sitting. Yes, this is hard, and yes, it will take about four hours. Yes, we know you have sports and theater and hours of homework to do. But test day is a marathon, not a sprint. Lots of students could get gre at scores, if only they could split up the test over three days. Dont be one of those people! The SAT is partly testing your ability to focus and think for several hours straight, so you need to practice that. No shortcuts here! 3. Time it like the actual test. Follow the timing directions at the top of each section, and set a timer to go off when times up. Stop writing when you hear the timer, and dont fill in more answers. 4. Go in order. Dont do all the math sections at once, or all the reading and writing sections together. Complete sections in the order theyre presented in the test. 5. Take the test when youre feeling rested. Weekend mornings are a great time to take practice tests because the test itself is given on a Saturday morning. Regardless of what day you choose to complete the practice test, dont start it at 9 pm on a Thursday night after you finished all your other homework. Practice tests completed at 1 am never end well, trust me. 6. Parents, help create a good envi ronment. Make sure your son or daughter has a cleaned-off place to sit and complete the test without distractions. Dont interrupt them to talk or ask questions. Encourage them to do the test in one sitting, and provide positive reinforcement when they get it done. Put the test up on the fridge after they get the score back (okay, you dont have to do the last part).Completing several practice tests under testing conditions is one of the best predictors we at AJ Tutoring have found for a students eventual score improvement. Implementing the advice above is sure to help you have a great test day when March finally rolls around.

This calculator shows how much you can earn teaching English online (Hint Its a lot!)

This calculator shows how much you can earn teaching English online (Hint It’s a lot!) Lately, we’ve been getting a lot of reader questions about how much money you can actually make teaching English online. ? Looking for your first job after graduation? Trying to make some money in between jobs? Fancy the life of a digital nomad? Are you a working teacher interested in supplementing your income? How about a graduate student? Online English teaching jobs are rising in popularity as an option for all types of people. And for good reason. For pretty much everyone we’ve mentioned above, teaching English online is the perfect side gig because: You can do it in your own time You can do it from anywhere You can easily build it into your lifestyle All you need is to be a fluent English speaker and hold a bachelor’s degree (in any major) and you can get started in no time at all! So let’s talk numbers. How much money you can make teaching English online depends largely on how many hours you want to put in, which will vary depending on where you’re located. Hourly rates for teaching English online Generally speaking, you can earn anywhere from $14 - 23/hour, depending on the company you teach with. Because most students are located in Asia and especially concentrated in China, here’s a quick example of peak teaching hours for people located in North America on EST and PST time zones: To save you having to do the math, though, we’ve created this handy free online teaching salary calculator to help you figure out how much you can make teaching English online in a month: Caveat: This blog post doesn’t cover salary ranges for online college instructors (around $1,500 USD for each semester-length course taught, if you’re feeling curious). It also doesn’t delve into how much online K12 teachers can make. Virtual elementary and high school teachers earn $40,00 USD and up - that’s a similar yearly base salary to other licensed K12 teachers at public schools.

The mindset of a successful student

The mindset of a successful student Isn't life already hard enough? Especially for a pubescent teenager who does not yet have a fully developed brain? Having to navigate the minefield of social circles, extracurricular activities, and the opposite sex? This is, unfortunately, the norm, not the exception to any rule. And as the adults in the room, we honestly can't help all that much. We went through this process 15, 25, 30 years ago. Before the advent of the Internet. Cell phones with cameras. Social media. And we haven't even gotten to school yet! Successful students, or more correctly, successful teenagers have to balance all these plates, spinning wildly above their heads. The thing about spinning plates though is that they always fall, and never when you expect it. Successful students cannot possibly balance everything. This is where a successful parent comes in. The successful student falls. The successful student fails. The successful student is not perfect. This is why your student may already feel defeated. They are expected to have perfect grades, have perfect relationships, play sports perfectly, and have the perfect amount of self-esteem. Could you do that? How about learning to change thought patterns between classes like English Language Arts and Mathematics, where only critical thinking is truly valued in one and only linear, process-oriented thinking in the other? Maybe you can start to remember your own experiences in school in a different, not so rose-colored light. So what can you do? How can you help? Why is this so hard? And why are there dirty clothes and dishes all over the place? Successful students need a little thing called structure. And yes, I know, this isn’t rocket surgery or Earth shattering news. Like every skill, sometimes a little refining is needed. No, students do not need every moment of their lives scheduled. They do need to sit and get lost in their own heads from time to time. Thirty minutes here, thirty minutes there. They also need to sleep. A whole lot. Like an infant, a lot. Their brains and bodies are undergoing massive physical and chemical changes. It is hard work being a teenager and that is only the part that includes staying alive! This is what I mean by structure. A regular, loose calendar of the activities of the day. Monday through Friday are the easy ones. Wake up at the same time every day. Take a shower (yes, they will have to be told to do it). Dress appropriately. No, those sweatpants or yoga pants are not school appropriate. Eat. The brain needs fuel. Go to school. Take notes. No, you really cannot remember everything the teacher said. No, you are not like Sheldon Cooper. Come home after school. Take a nap. Wake up and do your chores. Work on your homework. If you don’t understand something, come to me. I may not know either, but I have access to resources that you may not know exist. Go to bed at the same time every night. No, leave your phone out here. Tablet, too. This is structure. It’s not really about times, dates, goals, achievements, or anything like that. It’s about a process. A repeatable process. A process with choices. And if things are missed, so be it. But there are consequences. Go to bed late, get up tired. Don’t take a shower, your friends will say you smell. Don’t dress appropriately, you will probably miss out on class. Don’t eat, lose focus in class. Don’t take notes, something your teacher said will probably be on the test at the end of next week. Don’t do your chores, do them during the weekend. Don’t do your homework, your grades will suffer and you will make it up over the weekend. And by the way, straight A’s only mean one of two things. A) The classes are too easy or B) Other plates are falling. Rarely can or should a student maintain a 4.0 GPA. And that’s ok. If you focus on raising a well-rounded person who can follow processes and can self-impose structure, the rest takes care of itself. The mindset of a successful student is one where they don’t have to worry about getting it all done.

What Unique Jobs Can You Get With A Degree In Business

What Unique Jobs Can You Get With A Degree In Business pexels.com Work for a nonprofit   If youre interested in nonprofit work, your business degree is a valuable asset. Nonprofits are always looking for capable individuals trained in finance, communication, or general management skills. They run the gamut from politically-oriented groups to charities focused on animals, so theres surely a nonprofit out there related to your interests. Although nonprofits are by definition not interested in turning a profit, that doesnt mean youll be scraping by if you choose to work for one. Nonprofits often pay quite well for your services. Work in the government Oftentimes when people think of the government, they imagine running for office. But if seeking out elected office isnt your thing (or even if it is!) a government job is perfectly suited to graduates with a business degree. Running a campaign or working in a government office will force you to rely on skills you picked up while earning your business degree. If you ever decide to launch your own campaign for office, your management skills and financial prowess will serve you well. Work for yourself Business majors are usually the type of people willing to go out on a limb and take a risk. Becoming an entrepreneur is obviously quite a leap since youll have no safety net, but its one of the most rewarding possible careers out there. You could start anything, from a charity to a novelty mug company. If it piques your interest, then it might just be a viable career option. Anything that gets you excited has the potential to motivate others as well. With your trusty business degree and the accompanying business acumen, financial, and management skills you will have attained, any idea you have could be a winning one. Work as a career coach As a business major, you know what it takes to succeed. When people are searching for their own work-related purpose, it helps to have a third party there who can judge without bias what kinds of careers they are best suited to. Especially as you continue to work, youll be able to gauge a persons aptitude for a specific job. Its not just if they are capable of performing at an adequate level, but its also important to ensure that your client is finding a career that will make them happy. As a career coach or something similar, you could both help someone find fulfillment in their lives and put your knowledge of business to good use. Work for a news agency Maybe you never fancied yourself a journalist, but if you graduated college, then youve certainly got some modicum of writing ability. Almost every news agencys website has a business tab, or a section in your newspaper of choice. Writing about business is a great way to mix your interest in the subject with your writing skills. Further honing your writing abilities will make you a more desirable candidate when applying to any future jobs. But if writing isnt your thing, there could still be a place for you at a news agency. There are plenty of jobs available, from the companys financial sector to anchoring a show. Whatever job you seek in a news agency, your business degree puts you in a prime position to excel at it. Work for the military Believe it or not, every branch of the military is in need of business majors. Military officers are required to hold degrees (in whatever subject, including business), and make quite a bit more than their enlisted counterparts. There are the obvious applications for business majors, such as managing military storefronts. But the holder of a business degree could succeed in any military career. Leadership and management ability are crucial to any military job, and with these skills already ingrained in you after years of studying business, youd be in a great position to quickly climb the ranks. Earning a business degree will force you to learn a multitude of practical skills. These talents can be applied to almost any job you can imagine, whether its the kind of career typically pursued by a business major or something unique. Think long and hard about your interests and whether youd like to work in a dynamic or sedentary atmosphere. If you take yourself into careful consideration, and plan on working hard, theres a job out there perfect for you! Learn more about Kaplan’s test prep options and start building the confidence you need for Test Day.