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Critical Reading
Insight’s Critical Reading curriculum teaches students the strategies that will most effectively equip them to answer reading comprehension, sentence completion, and paragraph-length critical reading questions. Throughout the program our curriculum helps students build a solid vocabulary foundation and a deep understanding of sentence structure. We also teach problem solving skills and strategies specific to this section of the test.
Since the reading questions on the SAT measure a student's ability to read and think carefully about numerous diverse passages, our curriculum pushes students to become comfortable with topics ranging from the humanities, to social studies, the natural sciences, and literary fiction. Similarly, the program also encourages students to become comfortable with narrative, argumentative, and literary fiction styles of writing (both long and short).
Our curriculum encompasses learning how to answer the following types of questions:
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Vocabulary in Context
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Literal Comprehension
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Extended Reasoning
Our in-class program is structured around 12 two-hour class sessions totalling 24 class hours. Classes are limited to eight students or less.
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Mathematics
Insight’s math program focuses on a comprehensive review of the expanded range of topics contained within the New SAT. These include exponential growth, absolute value, and functional notation, with a greater emphasis on linear functions, manipulations with exponents, and properties of tangent lines, basic algebra and geometry. Our custom curriculum also teaches techniques targeted at increasing speed and accuracy. These include wrong answer elimination, educated omissions and educated guessing. Regular homework assignments ensure that students internalize strategies before taking the test. In addition, we spend time helping students understand the differences between the multiple choice questions and the student-produced responses questions.
Our in-class program is structured around 12 two-hour class sessions totalling 24 class hours. Classes are limited to eight students or less.
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Writing
Employing our Master List of Topics technique, Insight’s writing program equips students with a toolbox of between 12-14 topics that they will memorize and apply to any essay topic the College Board may throw at them. Our custom curriculum also teaches students how to organize and express their ideas clearly while developing a strong thesis and providing strong supporting evidence. Through regular practice and timed, structured exercises, our proven system will give them the confidence they need to succeed on this section of the test.
The multiple choice portion of the writing section tests a student's mastery of English Grammar. Our program focuses first on teaching students the English Rules of Grammar and subsequently understanding how to identify errors in sentences and/or passages they may be presented with. Errors span issues of diction, grammar, sentence construction, subject-verb agreement, proper word usage, and wordiness. Our program will equip them to recognize errors in usage and sentence structure in addition to poorly structured paragraphs and thus how to improve them.
Our in-class program is structured around 12 one-and-a-half-hour class sessions totalling 18 class hours. Classes are limited to eight students or less.
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| Improve confidence to succeed not only on the SAT-I but in any academic endeavor. Cupertino session starts February 21. |
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