SAT Chemistry Test Preparation

If your student is preparing to take the SAT subject test in chemistry, working with a tutor could be the right answer for them. Our tutors help students master the material and feel confident in their knowledge. You might be wondering why your student would need to take SAT subject tests. While the normal SAT is used for almost every college and university as admissions criteria, many also use the SAT subject tests to see how prepared a student may be in given subject material, which can make them a more competitive applicant. When your student prepares to take the SAT Chemistry Subject Test, there are several recommended key skills that they should have. Our tutors can help them to be familiar with these skills and learn to apply them. Such skills include familiarity with the metric system, understanding scientific notations, organize and interpret results from experiments, apply principles of chemistry to solve problems, etc.

How Can Working with a Tutor Help My Student on the SAT Chemistry Test Preparation?

Your student’s review sessions will take place in a one-on-one environment with a highly qualified tutor. Our SAT Chemistry Test Preparation tutors work with your student to develop areas of weakness and improve their knowledge in each area necessary for success on the test. Your student will receive live feedback during review sessions, so false assumptions or misinformation will not fester.

This can also help your student build confidence in their chemistry skills and knowledge. Working with one of our SAT Chemistry Test Preparation tutors is a great adjunct to your student learning in the classroom. During the classroom setting, teachers often must stick to a specified curriculum and not deviate from it, even if a student has questions or trouble understanding the material, especially if most of the class understands the material. When your student works with a private tutor, the review sessions revolve around their needs. If your student has already mastered a topic, such as stoichiometry, they can focus on different topics, such as understanding how to draw a Lewis structure. There is no set curriculum, as our tutors will develop the lesson plans and learning goals based upon your student’s needs.

A huge benefit to many students is the flexibility in how a tutor will present the material. We understand that students learn in different ways, and our tutors work to understand how your student learns best, so they can teach them in that way. At the same time, if they need more help understanding a different learning method, such as an auditory learner needing to embrace how to read and interpret visual tools, our tutors can help with that.

Our tutors also help students build key study skills. These can be useful to them in their high school career and as they progress on to college. Among the study skills and test taking skills that may be covered include active reading and note taking. In addition to working with your student to master test taking skills, our tutors can help them feel more comfortable on test day, such as working with them on deep breathing activities and addressing the sources of their anxiety.

As part of the SAT subject test preparation, our tutors can administer mock tests to your student, to get them comfortable with the style, format, and questions that they will encounter on the actual test. This allows them to get more comfortable with time management and answering questions. Your student will also be able to learn to pick out key parts of questions, such as when not is used in a question, allowing them to make pick the best possible answer.

One of the skills that your student will need to master is when to actually use the periodic table of elements, which is provided on the test. While that means that they don’t have to memorize the entire table, some students rely on it too heavily. Our tutors can work with them to understand when it is a good idea to use it and what information they should be familiar with from the table before sitting down to take the test.