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Quantitative comparisons; well I'm confused because I thought the new SAT was going to get rid of them.

But what they are is, for simplicity's sake, a question that is presented in two columns.

Column A says 2 Column B says 4

Your choices are A: Column A > Column B B: Column B > Column A C: Column A = Column B D: Cannot be determined from information given

SOmething like that anyway. There's a method for doing them quickly and efficiently.

I really don't like SAT prep classes mainly because I'm sorry that it has grown into such an industry. When I tutor high school students I may point out to them what things are likely to be on the SAT math exam, just to get them familiar with short cuts. Like 30-60-90 triangles, rt triangles with sides that are Pythagorean triples (3,4,5; 5, 12, 13), things like that. Some teachers give assignments with multiple choice questions that are prep for SAT. I may help with short cuts like which answers to eliminate immediately. But other than that, I like to teach the math they need to know in order to understand the subject, not necessarily to get a good score on the SAT, because the two are not necessarily the same. (SAT II for math is a different story, but I"m talking about SAT I).

-- BarryGarelick - 27 Jun 2005

Barry--look at the far lefthand column, the item on the bottom.

-- CatherineJohnson - 27 Jun 2005

Before it says 'newsletter signup.'

-- CatherineJohnson - 27 Jun 2005

Sorry. Don't know how I could have missed that one. But somehow it makes sense that a website like that one would be into something like that. Maybe they're trying to reach a certain demographic who I really don't care to meet.

-- BarryGarelick - 28 Jun 2005

I've got to look it over more carefully.

It's a free site, and I think may be run by students for students...so I'm guessing that may be an editorial comment on the value of the new SAT essay...

-- CatherineJohnson - 28 Jun 2005