At present, the subject 10 level, it is not too early to start preparing for TOEFL and SAT! The following battalion commander has two suggestions: one is to prepare the time plan for the tenth grade; The other is the suggestion of TOEFL and SAT linkage preparation.
Let's talk about the preparation time planning of the tenth grade beautiful book:
First of all, I have to say that every student has a good starting level. According to the statistics in recent years, TOEFL takes 3-6 months, SAT takes 4-8 months, AP takes 2-6 months (1-2), and SAT II needs at least 2 months if it is well matched with AP.
Many students (even some teachers) will say, "Now American universities don't pay so much attention to standardized test scores." "So-and-so students have passed the standardized test scores, and standardization is not very important" ... Oh, my God! Wake up! These words are still reserved for one day, when all universities don't want exam results, and then take them out. The reality is that as long as standardized test scores still account for a certain proportion of admission, we must pay attention to them! The better you do in the exam, the more you should pay attention to it! There are three reasons:
1.？ Standardized examination reflects the academic ability that universities value, not just a number;
2.？ Standardized examination embodies a person's "learning ability"-this is the ability that accompanies him all his life and is an important quality of outstanding talents;
3.？ This is a stepping stone, my baby! In other words, it may not be the most important, but if the grade is not up to standard, your material bag will not even have a chance to be opened! !
The battalion commander will say next, don't secretly rejoice. It's too early. The standardized score line passed, and the admissions officer opened your material bag. What's in your bag? That is the extremely important "software" for admission.
Let's see what "software" God wanted. Background promotion and clerical writing. Backstage promotion is not uniform, but it is certain to take two vacations. Documentary writing varies from person to person. Experienced consultants usually suggest that the last few months before the application deadline be devoted to school selection and clerical writing. Just say three months.
Now let's see, how long does it take for everything to add up? Yes, 27 months! This situation is very smooth for TOEFL and SAT (or ACT). If you add 1 to the make-up exam, it will be more than 29 months. It is not easy!
What else to do at the same time? Of course, we should also take into account the school work and the senior high school entrance examination (domestic high school students of the same grade), and GPA is also an important weight for application.
In addition, we should also take care of the time and place of various exams and the learning law from easy to difficult-students' learning experience, background, advantages and disadvantages, and potential are different. The most experienced trainers need a time to find out the most comprehensive situation of students and make adjustments in the process, not to mention that some students try to solve problems by themselves and spend a lot of time in front of them. ...
I hope you can prepare as soon as possible and win a prepared battle! Last but not least, send a standard timetable for tenth grade preparation.
Next, the battalion commander will talk about TOEFL and SAT linkage preparation:
Let's take a look at the linkage between TOEFL and SAT.
We can clearly see that the 12 ability in TOEFL is completely covered by the 20 abilities in SAT. Therefore, there is a good relationship between the two exams on the ability level. If we start from the ability, rather than from the superficial question type, we can take a lot of detours and even break through some common bottlenecks relatively easily.
The ability training of the two exams should be seamless, which requires the trainer to disassemble the exams very carefully. It takes a long time of teaching and research to draw a conclusion about which subject cultivates which abilities, which abilities are not cultivated, which are important and which are relatively minor, and what level each ability is finally cultivated. For a small example, we can see from the ability correlation table that the TOEFL listening item does not include the ability to identify paragraph logic. This is because we have analyzed the real questions in recent five years, and found that the number of direct questions for paragraph logic recognition is 1 15, and the number of indirect questions is 3257. Therefore, in training, only the logic and articles between sentences are needed. This saves students' precious time and energy, and also paves the way for connecting SAT.
The battalion commander finally wants to remind the subject of the following points:
1.？ English learning ≠ exam training
2.？ The evaluation criteria of examination and training institutions are:
1)? Timeliness, whether students can make efficient use of their limited study time and achieve the best results.
2)? The goal is to talk about the topic or break through layer by layer according to the ability contained in the topic.
3)? Linkage, can there be a deep and effective linkage between multiple exams and different exams, so that every minute that students pay has long-term value and truly achieve a step-by-step breakthrough in ability, rather than just studying for one or several exams.
Above, I have said a lot. Subjects can digest slowly. If there is anything unclear, you can ask questions again!
Good luck preparing for the exam!