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Is BodSAT Right For You?

MOST SAT COURSES DO A GOOD JOB WITH STUDENTS SCORING IN THE 40-80% RANGE, BUT THEY ARE MOSTLY INEFFECTIVE FOR HIGHER-SCORING STUDENTS.

If learning from your mistakes is the key to improvement, and different kinds of students make different kinds of mistakes, look for an SAT class that caters to the types of errors that you make. Most SAT courses do a good job with students scoring in the 40-80% range by focusing on the "low hanging fruit" (reading, writing and math fundamentals, and strategies helpful for medium-difficulty SAT problems).

Most SAT Classes

If you are a higher-scoring student (PSAT 170+/SAT 1800+) you may experience the following in standard SAT classes:

The questions from the other students may seem to slow the class down.
The material may feel repetitive and unchallenging.
The strategies may seem obvious and heavy-handed.
Your teacher may not seem sufficiently knowledgeable or experienced to inspire your best effort.
You spend too much time preparing for just one test.

EVERY FACET OF A BODSAT SEMINAR IS GEARED EXCLUSIVELY TOWARDS HIGHER-SCORING STUDENTS.

Conversely, every facet of a BodSAT seminar is geared exclusively towards higher-scoring students. Wes Carroll and Justin Sigars, the founders of Bodhisattva SAT Prep (and the teachers of every BodSAT class), have harnessed a combined 25 years of experience to develop a unique, three-pronged approach:

BodSAT Seminars

Fluidity:
Since most BodSAT students already have strong fundamentals, we've designed our seminars to strengthen the fluidity of those fundamentals in order to free up brainpower to tackle the twists and turns of the most difficult SAT problems.

Advanced strategies:
Because BodSAT students can usually handle easy and medium questions on their own, we don't "fix what isn't broken"; our seminars focus on strategies most useful for the tough stuff.

Self-awareness:
The higher you score, the more each problem is worth. Because higher scorers cannot afford to miss problems that they "should have gotten," BodSAT seminars train students in a learning process that catches those "careless" errors. We call this method the Tao of Improvement.

THE TAO OF IMPROVEMENT'S THREE IMPERATIVES:
1. Bring your best self to practice
Improvement starts with correctly identifying your weaknesses. But all too often, mistakes are simply the result of poor "study hygiene": insufficient sleep and too much distraction. We assign detailed homework logs that we review during each session's office hours to catch and correct these problems early in the process, thereby preventing students from expending enormous attention on wild goose chases. Instead, each student's effort is directed only towards acquiring and practicing the skills that shore up genuine weaknesses. This streamlines improvement enormously.

2. Mine each and every honest mistake for data
What does each missed question tell you about yourself as a test-taker, and what does it tell you about the nature of the SAT? It is not enough to know how to solve a particular problem; real improvement comes from getting better at the process of problem solving in general. Our SAT homework process for deconstructing missed questions, along with the Socratic structure of our seminars, trains students to turn missed questions into learning opportunities.

3. Devise a plan of action
Once you have identified your weak links and blind spots, what will you do differently to prevent their recurrence? Even "careless" errors require thought and action; they don't resolve themselves when you move on to the next practice test with the plan of "being more careful." Our extensive experience as SAT teachers allows us to draw from a huge repertoire of common problems and solutions; we turn every mistake into a lesson, and every lesson into an action plan.

To understand why the Tao is so crucial to higher-scorers, think of the experience of taking the SAT: for average scorers, it feels like a test of knowledge, but for higher scorers, if feels more like a test of mental acuity and endurance. In fact, for BodSAT students, prepping for and taking the SAT should be an altogether new kind of experience. There is a world of difference between cramming for a high school curriculum-based exam, and the "practice makes permanent" reality of prepping for a test more akin to an athletic performance.

SO, *IS* BODSAT RIGHT FOR YOU?

If you are a high-scorer (PSAT 170+/SAT 1800+) looking for an experience that:

trains you to beat hard SAT problems,
helps resolve issues of carelessness, and
serves as a model by which you can efficiently improve in any endeavor,

then we think the choice is obvious, and we want you to think so too. Feel free to sit in on a seminar or set up a private test-prep consultation by calling Wes (415-254-9248) or Justin (510-910-9003), or simply sign up for a BodSAT seminar now.