 mm-hmm I know all right there we go that should be better great start to the stream let's go yeah I'm not sure why that happened but it should be good now so let's try that again welcome to the stream June 3rd SAT Q&A got questions I got answers let's do this thank you all for being here and putting up with my technical difficulties that's what that's what happens when you have a meeting at 9 a.m. and then you rush out of your meeting to start your stream because business you know it's it is what it is but but we're good now so let me just give a little let's see what we got here we got do my leak what's up Sarah and he comes I'd like seeing you people ID what's happened in San say I I'm probably butchering a lot of names here I'm sorry James Bond for developing vocabulary that's an interesting idea yeah read I always tell people read books like it doesn't really matter what you're reading read something like reading in English fiction or nonfiction is good for your brain it helps you with the test there's a couple I'll give a quick speech about why reading is important okay first of all you will see new vocabulary you will see words that you are not familiar with make a note of those anytime you see a word that you don't know go ahead and write it down and then you can review it later the other thing you're gonna see a lot of good writing okay any book that you pick up has been rewritten numerous times by the author it has been edited numerous times by an editor and it was probably proof read yet again before going to the printer so like a bunch of people have worked on this text over and over and over and so what that means is you're gonna see a lot of good examples of punctuation and grammar and like word choice and that helps you that trains your brain that makes it easier for you to recognize mistakes on the SAT and to fix some of the you know the answers that you got to put in there to choose the right answers like for me it makes it really easy for me to spot like bad comma choices because I know I'm like I just I've seen so many books I've read so many things that like I know you wouldn't put a comma there I can't always explain it but I know so please believe me read it's good for you yeah mega ha me I'm not good to see you she just a friend hey it's cool I don't judge um yeah she be a hello weirdo z stuck at 610 um yeah hard to say I mean it you got to look at what questions you're missing each each person here there is no one solution for all of you okay and that's like a big part of our ethos here at score is like personalizing everything but you also have to kind of do that yourself like you have to look at your mistakes and say okay what questions am I screwing up am I having more mistakes on vocabulary than I need to practice vocabulary am I having more mistakes on sporting claims questions than I need to maybe review how to do those like and practice those more like you got to identify what kinds of questions are giving you problems and then work specifically on those things and I liken it to a sport you know if you play a sport there's a lot of different skills in any given sport if you play basketball you got a dribble you got a shoot you got a pass and like all those things require separate practice so if you're bad at free throws you need to get on the free throw line and take some free throws if you're bad at dribbling you better get out there with a ball and practice every day like what will make you a better SAT taker is gonna be different from somebody else so definitely try to figure out what your problems are and how we can fix them you know is June digital SAT gonna be easier how hard is it gonna be V Raj daily solutions I listen nobody knows nobody knows don't listen to anybody who tells you that they know who tells you that it's gonna be easier or harder nobody knows okay I'm gonna tell it to you honestly and straight nobody knows because and here's the thing the new digital SAT combines different questions from like their bank of questions so I would expect it to be similar like I would expect everybody to have more or less the same difficulty on every test but just with different questions but there's probably gonna be some questions that get recycled from previous tests I don't think you would see them to be honest because the system knows what questions you've seen like it's take there's probably a giant pool of like thousands of questions right and then it just plucks those questions out and puts them in a test for you and the person sitting next to you will have a different test and the person sitting in front of you has a different test so understand that like the digital SAT is different for everybody in the same room so even if somebody could tell you like oh it's gonna be easier like that might not be true for the person next to you like what's easy for you depends on what you're good at so don't worry about whether it's gonna be easier or harder just focus on improving yourself and focus on addressing the questions that you need to do nervous for you feel nervous look just remember this doesn't determine your future okay this is just one component and I think it's important to make sure that you also approach it in a confident way try to remember that like it's just a test it's it's not this isn't like you know the Chinese government like language test or whatever they do where it's like if you don't get a score on this you're gonna go be a farmer and grow rice for the rest of your life like and I could be over generalizing but like it's just a test it's just one component of a much bigger application so don't stress about it too much do your best just you know try to go in and be confident like there's you know it's gonna be what it's gonna be like he there's only so much you can do at this point we're a couple days away you know I see some points about poetry we can take a look at some poetry questions punctuation boundaries standard English conventions yes so standard English conventions is always gonna be your grammar right and your punctuation stuff that's like the two main things that go in there and it's it's important to know where to use your punctuation so we can do some practice with those two first year and IB diploma take the test this fall or the spring I would say take it you can do both honestly you don't have to take it right away but I would encourage you to take it before you are deep in your second year of IB because you're gonna have so much stuff to study and so many exams and like you really want to get this stuff done before that ideally so if you get like some vacation time that's a really good time to take it alright worth it to retake a 1520 with cars congratulations you got a 1520 no I mean look if you've already paid for it and you're already signed up go for it if you feel like you can improve sure why not but like honestly 1520 if you have anything over 1500 you can send that anywhere trust me you are not going to get admitted or denied because of 50 or 60 points more I can tell you that right now that is not going to be the deciding factor in your application instead I would tell you start working on essays and things like I I see so many people that focus only on the SAT and then I see their essays and it's like dude this isn't a good essay like I every school's gonna reject you with this essay like this stuff is oftentimes equally important and in some cases things like essays are more important you know I actually if you if you followed the videos I made the last few weeks when I was taking information and putting it into that sheet that you can use to prepare your applications like I went through all the different criteria on the common data set and it's like essays were important at pit but test scores were just considered like literally what you write can be worth much more than 50 points on the SAT so I would say don't feel like you need to retake it if you got that stuff you're good Elisha how do you think college board make more resources available the thing is like the resources are just more questions if it's going to be different for everyone then all we got to do is just practice the different question types so what I'm hoping they will do is add more official practice tests to you know Blue Book and Khan Academy and I'm sure there will be other companies launching material in the next few months because Americans are going to have to take the digital SAT next year and so companies like Kaplan you know Pearson they're gonna publish their own digital SAT stuff probably between August and like October I guess and that would give people there a few months to prepare so I would keep an eye open for those things there's probably going to be some fresh material from other companies dropping be aware that like if it's not from one of those very established editorials there's probably gonna be some mistakes I've had a lot of people sending me exercises from other platforms including things like prepley and Erica Meltzer and stuff like that and I see some mistakes on a lot of these things I'll be honest like I don't trust everything I see on these to be really truthful with you last minute tips for math I'm sorry I suck at math I cannot help you much with math know your calculator I guess you don't want my math advice trust me the yeah CPK like what you just said like don't stress about these third-party things like I think a lot of them are designed to be harder and here's part of the reason for that right think about what these these you know publications want to do they want to sell you something right they want to sell you prep they want to sell you a whole book they want to sell you stuff so by like giving you a really hard test that has like intentionally confusing answers or like really nitpicky little details like one word makes this wrong and and like or like having four answers where none of them are really truly correct but just one is like not that bad like that's the kind of stuff I see on a lot of this material and it's all because it's like okay if you get scared you'll be more likely to pay for a course or pay for a whole book or pay for online classes or something and like that's what a lot of these people are trying to do they intentionally make it harder I I don't think that's like the way to go I personally don't believe you need a lot of preparation from professionals if you can figure out what your mistakes are and work on them yourself you know but this is what like this is what they do you know I see this all the time if you're at 11th grade I would say it's a good time to start preparing now she bomb like that's this is a good time to start preparing and then think about doing it towards the end of 11th grade that's kind of a good time so to look 3.2 GPA is that gonna limit some possibilities yes is it the end of the world no obviously everything depends also on how much money your family can spend and you know other aspects of your profile but like 3.2 GPAs get admitted all the time they're not like you probably want to choose public schools you want to choose ones with state in their name to be honest because they're gonna be a little less selective but you can do it you can get into good universities with that like you don't have to panic if you're feeling stuck if you're not improving since I faith I see you saying that again think about the approach are you after you finish practicing do you look at this the kinds of questions that you're making mistakes in I would write down the number like I go okay I got three mistakes in vocab I got two mistakes on sentence completion and I would go through and do that and then look at that information analyze that say okay what do I need to prioritize because if if you don't practice with purpose specifically to improve specific things you're not gonna see much improvement if you're just doing general practice if you're just going through practice test after practice test or question after question you'll get better but like you won't get much better much faster you have to target specific things and I tell you this from my experience like learning Spanish right like when I got to Peru I barely could speak Spanish I had almost no Spanish speaking language skills and I would just make a note of things that I wanted to start improving I'd be like okay let's try to use past tense more let me let me learn my conjugations in past tense let me practice that when I go out in the street let me try to talk about something in the past and use this and I would make that like a focus point for like a week and I would get better much faster at that if I if I didn't have that one specific goal to improve that one specific aspect I would probably just get better slower so try to have smaller goals take your big goal okay I want to get to this score and break that down into smaller goals and for me with the SAT the best way to do that is to say okay I want to work on these kinds of questions today I'm going to analyze how they work and what I have to look for in the answers and like maybe review some of the videos that you know score has put up for you so you can check out the strategies like look at how to approach those questions so that's I think it's kind of the best way to go let me see last minute vocabulary tips again think about how you can like a couple things that we can talk a little bit about vocabulary I can show you some examples of maybe some questions there but I think it's important with vocabulary to just remember that like don't spend too much time on it okay if you don't know any of the words try to do process of elimination as much as you can get to a 50-50 take a guess and move on like vocabulary is one of those ones where the longer you look at it the less likely you are to answer it correctly if you're staring at the question you need to move on just save yourself time for more things for other questions like don't stress it I look I run into situations where even I'm not 100% sure of the words I just try to use process of elimination get between a couple of options pick one and move on I'm not going to sit there and stare at it all day I think that's important to remember yeah now you get demotivated by the low scores look don't it's again like again it's just a test guys it's not the most important thing in the world you don't have to worry about it too much will there be any repetitive questions from blue book or Khan Academy I don't know that's nobody knows matrix that's that's a good question I I have heard that that happened with some people on like March and May so it's possible I suspect they're still making more questions though so I kind of think that that's going to be less likely all right yeah okay peek I'm glad you I'm glad you found that my materials like accurate I tried really hard to make stuff that felt like the SAT that was a lot of work and let's see I'm I'm trying to scroll through here we get a lot of stuff right looking looking at we got a lot of people making some improvements again try to focus on those small improvements right even if you maybe don't get the best score did you do better on your time you know did you did you and remember too that there's variations from day to day it's really important to prepare your mind and your body okay like I can't stress this enough make sure you get a good night's sleep all right wake up early on test day so that you have time to wake up your brain if you wake up like 45 minutes before the test and rush to the test center you're not gonna have the same performance like I would recommend if your test is at 8 a.m. get up at 6 okay I know it sucks but get up early right have some breakfast get maybe some I don't know a little bit of coffee or caffeine in your system if you tolerate it well right if not if it makes you all jittery and nervous don't do that but get yourself mentally ready wake up okay cuz like I've seen this before I see people that roll in and they still look like oh my god like if that's you that's gonna affect your performance and it's just like anything else if you're gonna lift weights you got to stretch right and like any other activity we do a little bit of preparation to get into that mindset right that we that we want and to get our performance up and your brain needs a breakfast and needs a little bit of sugar something to get you going make sure you do that okay and that good night sleep the night before is gonna help you all right cuz cuz that stuff matters don't try to stay up all night studying it's too late for that okay Friday night go ahead and just you know get get your meditation on find your Zen maybe watch something on Netflix and go to bed okay cuz you want to wake up ready to go and and and get your body and mind ready to go that makes a big difference and I've had people tell me this straight up people that have had you know two very different results and they were like I just felt different on test day I felt better I was like I was good to go I had a girl who cut her hand the day before the test and it did not go well and like I told her look that's out of your control you had to she was doing the paper and pencil you know but like she had she had a nasty gash on her hand and it was like okay obviously that's gonna affect your performance like you need to be mentally and physically ready okay so yeah how much points for IBDP for good schools I mean what's a good school right but IBDP look 29 to 31 is like the average so you want to be at least there right and go go up from there that 32 to 36 range will get you into a lot of universities but if you really want to start targeting like top schools like top 20 top 40 you're gonna want at least like 38 okay and and for like Ivy Leagues and stuff at least 40 and I can tell you that's not even necessarily a guarantee I had a girl this year that worked with us she had a 45 predicted on IB which is perfect score okay that was her predicted grade she didn't get into any Ivy League schools okay and she had a really good SAT scores she had really good profile like there's just always some amount of luck in applying to Ivy League and like top tier schools which is why I don't recommend you make that the focus of your application I really don't recommend that people just focus on those top schools there are many other good options that you can find within your budget that are still really good schools that will improve your life you don't need to get into the top 10 schools in the world to have a good life and she got into Oxford fortunately so she's good she got into a great school but still like she got rejected from every single Ivy League school that she applied to with a freaking perfect IB score like what more do you want right but that's the thing there's a bunch of there's thousands of other people with perfect IB scores there's thousands of other people with perfect SAT scores and and so you know what they're looking for is gonna change from year to year and I have a feeling that if this girl applied every year for three years she probably would get into one but this year she didn't she got into Oxford you know so you gotta remember that right it's there's no guarantees even with good scores you also I think it's really important that you show a lot of maturity and a lot of initiative maturity and initiative are huge maturity especially because you know they want to see that you can handle life on your own and that you'll be able to perform well in those circumstances and that you're sure of what you want and you're not just applying to a great school because it's a great school but that you actually have a really good plan for what you want to do there and then I think initiative right showing that you have things that you're passionate about and that you you go beyond what is available to you you show that you are willing to make extra effort to do the things that make you feel passion that's really important when I look at the people that we've helped to get in so I think I'll look at some of these yeah you're in 9th grade and you're already doing this man you're starting early Salar that's cool though but yeah like you got plenty of time you're you're good no no stress the deadline for the digital SAT is like two weeks before the test if you have your own device if you want to register for the test if you are borrowing a device from the test center then it's one month in advance so just keep that in mind for registration purposes let's see yeah take a mission top 100 universities decent score I mean again what's a decent score depends on your major it depends on a lot of things but like generally speaking if you're looking at like top 100 schools anything over a 1300 is gonna look okay for these schools right some might be more selective than others and it also depends on like how much the university cares about tests like Georgetown loves the test they love the SAT you better come with like 1400 plus over there but then there's other places where it's like 60% of the people presented a test result 40% are optional and if you look at their range it's like between 1300 and 1550 like so they don't really care any any test score that kind of falls within the range of people that submitted is fine for them like again all they do is look at the score and go okay they don't sit there and analyze it they don't like sit there go oh okay well this student has 1420 this one has 1400 he must be so much better like they know that that's just margin of error like one question between two people doesn't make a difference so most colleges don't care that much about your score they like to look at it and they see if it falls within the range that they are looking for but then they just go tick and move on they're far more interested in your GPA your academic rigor your essays your letters of recommendation like today those things are more important so don't stress about oh what score do I got to get to get into this college because there is none there is no magic number that gets you into any college there isn't so plenty of people get an optional plenty of people get in with good SAT scores some people get in with low SAT scores right it's just one component so what you need to get in is going to depend on other things in your application and what major you're applying to and stuff like that is it possible to increase points by 100 to 200 in a few days I would never say it's not impossible but I'm gonna say it's unlikely maybe you get really lucky but probably not yeah subject verb agreement that's a good one we can do I'm taking notes by the way of some of the things you're asking about and I also got a request from somebody through what's up today to talk about some punctuation so I'm gonna talk a little bit about punctuation and I'm gonna talk a little bit about that subject verb agreement topic as well some things that you mentioned we could take a little peek at some poetry stuff too if you want yeah prediction about June Curve I don't think there really is one man from what I can tell it really just depends on which questions you miss so I'm sure you need to get into schools like Texas Tech Texas Tech is actually pretty forgiving Sonia I we got a guy in there who had like I think like 12 something like 1240 he got into Texas Tech just fine and he got in-state tuition Texas Tech can give you in-state tuition as an international student so definitely check them out so it's a good school we got a guy who enrolled there he's gonna be going there this year yeah okay let me show you do I think again this Nithya there is no such thing as an easy SAT or hard SAT anymore it's all random chance now because everybody's getting different questions so whether it's easier or not it's gonna depend on you you're the only one taking the test in the center that's pretty funny that's kind of fun I always like being the only guy in a place it's kind of entertaining when you're just there by yourself yeah okay let me see what else here yeah so m-function like a colon common okay they so if they give you both a colon comma and an m-dash there's probably another difference that you need to watch out for I could show it let's maybe switch to a little example of that too for punctuation we'll get to that second I'm just trying to go through all the questions here real quick get a feel for what we got what I know about you Mitch I've been there many times I actually made a little video interviewing a student from there on the channel a couple years ago you can check out my mom lives like 40 minutes away so I've been to you Mitch a bunch of times let's see here what else we got which component of application is most important for top universities they're all really important but it all starts with your academics and then I think your personal qualities and character and your essays really are important to top universities again they they're looking for a kind of person they're looking for maturity they're looking for like those kinds of things let's see yeah for Texas that Austin as an international depends on if they give you you know scholarship it's I mean you can look it up look up international tuition UT Austin search that I don't keep all the numbers in my head graphs and charts yeah graphs and charges are crappy we can look at a couple again the key with those is to look at the kind of question it is and I can show you a couple examples here yeah 1300 to 1400 can totally get you into good U.S. universities with a good scholarship dude I've gotten people with full-ride scholarships that didn't even have 1400 like 13 to 14 is totally acceptable you can absolutely get scholarships with a 1390 like guys any literally like you can get some scholarships just by having a slightly above average score like from 1100 on there are scholarships available for you okay obviously the more you get the bigger they can be but like I've had people with 1120 get scholarships I've had people with like 1200 get scholarships I've had people with 1300 something get full rides like again that the SAT is not necessarily a guarantee of anything but you know some schools will have a scale like they'll tell you if you have this GPA or this SAT score you get this much some schools don't do that they don't give you that information but they they kind of have an internal scale that they use yeah can you get a 700 on English if English is your third language of course you can sure yeah there's nothing stopping you yeah so yeah I don't know you can totally get a scholarship with a 1390 like don't don't freak out you're good yeah see all right I mean your question is really good will colleges really treat the digital exactly how they treated the paper I don't know that's a good question it's one of the questions that I'm gonna ask in July when I go to the International Association of College admissions counseling conference yeah cock as we call it the International ACAC is like they do this conference every year in July I'm gonna go and I'm gonna talk to admissions officers so if you have questions that you want me to ask admissions officers then please tell me what they would be because I want to make videos about that I'm gonna ask a bunch of questions to a bunch of admissions officers and put them together for videos for you so you can get a feel for what they really want I feel like we don't hear their perspective enough we hear the perspective of like other students and a lot of times that information is wrong and that's kind of why this channel exists is to give you real information from like real sources so I got a lot of ideas for things like that okay so and then some people mentioned graphs you can change majors what's up you could actually get enrolled as an undeclared student if you want you don't you can change majors but keep in mind it's not always possible to change to every major for example it's really hard to change into something like computer science because they're usually full okay so alright I think we got some ideas for some things yeah let's see okay yeah let's let's all right so we got some we got some graphs and stuff that we can talk about too so I alright let I want to start off with some of those punctuation questions about the m- in particular let's go ahead and get to some of this I'll show you a little example of this right so one of the things we got to watch out for if we have an m- remember that the m- right replaces three things okay it can replace comma it can replace colon and it can replace parentheses now it's important to remember that it can only replace a comma if it's for extra info okay you would not do this if you're making a list for example right we would only use it for extra info and then also remember that m dashes if you start one with in the middle of the sentence you would also finish one in the middle of the sentence so like I don't know I'll try to make a simple example here okay I'm gonna write the sentence and then just work with this alright so just looking at this example right I've already written it with the commas right in this case this here is extra information alright this is extra info I'm adding this information about the car and a good way to test this is can I delete this clause and still have a complete sentence the answer here is clearly yes I could say my car costs $300 to repair that's a good sentence so this is extra info and it is between commas in this case because it's in the middle of the sentence now I could replace this with m dashes right I could I could go one here and then I would have to use one here instead of the commas we could do that and that would be perfectly acceptable right so let's imagine we got this and we got some answer choices right let's let's just hypothetically pick some answers right so we have an a that's like a comma with the words I'm not going to rewrite them here but you get the idea right and then like this alright and then a b that's maybe maybe a comma and a blank and a comma right which we know is already good because I already showed it to you but you know just again think about the points that I'm trying to make here if we have C and we have this and we have this we have this we have D maybe we have like this right nothing else okay now again just just to illustrate the difference between the m dashes and stuff A and C would be wrong because if I'm gonna use one I need to use two okay so I would have to have one before and after so in this case if you see an m dash and a comma option pay attention to the punctuation on both sides maybe they're trying to trick you here I in this example I cannot use a or C because I need to use m dashes as a pair just as I use commas as a pair right in this particular instance right now B would be the best answer here because that's the the only one that actually technically works I would not use a comma after my or semi colon sorry after my car right that's one way to look at this so now when do I want to use some m dashes here let's imagine there's some other situations let's go and change this one up a little bit let me get the stuff out of here and show you what I mean let's let's imagine we have another situation where we're being asked to maybe put you know some other things in here I'm gonna get this out of here for a second I'm gonna write this one in with a fill in the blank here so I have a new problem blank which is seriously annoying in this case we're combining a couple of ideas let's imagine that we say I say let's go with I adopted a cat once and it was pretty annoying so that's just what came to my mind these examples are often just made up on the spot forgive me alright um we'll go with this okay let's just take a look at this for a second again we want we always want to break down our sentences into pieces and parts when we think about what punctuation we want to use and we also want to remember what m dashes can do so in this case I have a new problem now if I have this generally what I would want to use here is a colon because I've introduced a sort of vague concept I have introduced something that is undefined I have said there is a problem but I have not said what that problem is and as soon as you read this your instinct would be to ask okay what's the problem tell me what it is and so I would often use a colon here to then explain or define that problem which in this case is my adopted cat that makes a bunch of noise and knocks over my stuff and you know scratches my couch so it's seriously annoying now I have a new problem I would like to use a colon here I would not be able to use some other forms of punctuation okay it would not be appropriate to use a semicolon here because semicolons connect independent clauses and my adopted cat which is seriously annoying is not an independent clause there is not an active verb in that sentence essentially so D cannot work there's there's no way that I can use D because of the semicolon now because I want to use a colon here ideally I wouldn't want to use a comma right because it's like all right I have a new problem comma my adopted cat if I just said comma and ended it there it could work but really this is kind of like this isn't the best way to go given the other options that I have I also wouldn't want to use commas here so I'm gonna say a or b now sorry knowing that a colon can be replaced with an m-dash both of these options are available both of these options are possible right but then the question is what comes after and now when I have which for extra info again this is extra info I could have just stopped my sentence here but I didn't this is extra info so I'm gonna say I need a comma before my extra info and so B would be correct now the SAT is never gonna give you a situation where like like they would never do this okay you're never gonna see this where a and b are both equally valid okay you're never gonna see this because in this case this m-dash could replace this colon and we both have comma so a and b are both correct now with this comma here all right let me get rid of that comma though and put the word cat back right so in this case my adopted cat which is seriously knowing this wouldn't be the best way to do this like I'm adding extra info here so I should put a comma here and so a would be wrong but B would be okay so anytime you see an m-dash you need to compare to the other answers that you have you have to take a look carefully and be like okay could this be representing a colon could this be representing a comma what what might it be representing and are there any differences on the other side here that I need to pay attention to because sometimes they'll trick you that way they'll hide those commas at the end and you might go oh a colon fits here great but then you don't think about this and you make a mistake right so on that note like can there be punctuation like a common present within extra information yes you could have in extra information within extra information that is possible it's not that common to be honest I wouldn't normally recommend doing that but you could do that I could show you an example that like let me show you what I mean I can't write alright this is a good example of just nesting extra information I would never really write this wait for the record but I just want to illustrate actually let's do this alright so here's the thing here now what I'm doing here is just adding extra information take a look at like what we're doing here right so the who is talking about Joe now at this point I have a friend named Joe this is a complete sentence I could just stop right here we could move on but I'm adding some extra information about Joe that he works at score this is actually a real person I just went with a real person but then I want to add some extra information about scores I say which right comma which which is a constant company for international students and then I want to add some extra info about those international students who Joe works with regularly like I can do this this is technically okay I'm adding extra information within extra information essentially or building on that extra information and as I keep doing that I keep using commas and I keep using those WH words anytime we're adding extra information we're going to use WH words okay we're not going to use that okay that is for like critical information and we don't want to use commas with the word that keep that in mind you won't use commas before the word that almost ever it's extremely rare so this is kind of how you would show right how to show these film on m dashes for interruption or interjection that is only used in dialogue and only at the end of dialogue like if you were writing dialogue and you want to show that somebody gets cut off you put an M dash at the end of the dialogue and then start the next dialogue that doesn't appear in the SAT I've never seen that on the SAT so don't worry about that but you you would just do it in dialogue and I've never seen them actually test that on this so I don't think that's gonna happen Nikun's question about the semicolons and and commas and where they go is important but we're gonna look at that with an example of however okay I'll show you why so anyway like I also okay one of the questions I saw here was from Vishraji here about please explain common rules before which like when and when not to use commas before which here's the thing I could show you an example can you replace it with the word that that's always a good test right let's look here for example let's let's change the end of this sentence to give you an example if I want to if I want to say something more important about these international students that I need to say you know like to define which international students we're talking about right I could say here international students that live in Peru this isn't entirely true we work with people from all over the world but just for the sake of illustration right in this case this is not extra information this is part of the definition of these people this is this is a group of people international students that live in Peru that's that's what score does we were I mean we we primarily work with Peruvians so like this is not extra info this is important information about these international students so normally we would use the word that to connect that information and extend sort of the definition of international students right now if I want to give extra information right I could also write that sentence just now like I could also write this like this who live in Peru right this is okay too I don't have to use a comma before who because I'm still just defining who these students are I'm saying who they are but I could replace who with that and it would be okay if you can do this if you can do this don't use a comma that's the rule if you can do this don't use a comma now if again I'm adding extra information right and usually you'll know it's extra information when the subject changes like think back to my first example I said who Joe who Joe hopes I don't know I don't remember what I originally put but okay so here I've changed the subject so this is now extra information about the students like this is no longer a defining who these people are it's just pointing out that Joe helps them with their IELTS again I would not normally write a sentence like this but in this case I can't say that that it doesn't work so I have to use who and I have to use the comma because now this is extra information so so that's really the difference here like it use the that test can you put the word that in place of which or who and if so you don't use a comma generally I don't see a lot of questions like that in the SAT though to be totally honest with you I'm glad Maharshi liked the series by the way thank you for checking it out and I'm glad you know you're you're following along appreciate that okay so let's let's talk about the word however because I think this is a really commonly misunderstood thing and and we need to talk about how this kind of works alright I'm gonna give some examples here of how we can use this remember that sometimes these connectors can be placed as adverbs and in English adverbs can kind of go anywhere they're one of the few things in English that doesn't have a strict space in the sentence like they don't have an order so you can move adverbs around often they're at the beginning but they can also be at the end of a sentence right so it just depends on where I want to put that that word and where the writer chose to use it right so I like to throw out this example like I like restaurants right I like eating at restaurants yeah okay every day okay so I just have three sentences right here all right I'm gonna number these sentences one two three all right and I want you to think about how we use the word however and how we use these connectors right the word however is typically used for a contrast it is it is meant to contrast two sentences or two clauses right now there are two sentences here that contrast two that sort of don't go together naturally right and I want you to look and by the way you don't want to know there is no difference between nevertheless and however they're the same thing but you don't use nevertheless at the end of a sentence you only use it at the start of a sentence okay okay web developer robotics exactly however after one and now we'll get into what we can do after two but I want to show you something here these are the two sentences that contrast right there's a contrast here or there's some sort of disconnect right there's a disconnect like if I tell you I like eating at restaurants you expect me to say maybe some of my favorite restaurants or say how often I go to restaurants or like talk about you know I don't know my top 10 like you would expect me to continue to elaborate on that idea instead I actually go the opposite direction I say I don't eat out every day I go negative and so there's a contrast there's a disconnect so what I want to do here is connect these sentences with a word that indicates that there is that disconnect there is that contrast this is to prepare the brain to understand these two sentences are you know I know that they're not logically like sequential I know that there's something a little off right so what I can do is put the word however here right and put a comma however I don't eat out every day period it's cheaper to cook this is okay I can do this now in this case if I wanted to conjoin sentence one and sentence two I would turn this period into what punctuation I think you should know this what punctuation would go here to connect sentence one and two if I am starting sentence two with however right what would I use there's only one one option you got any coons exactly the semicolon that's the one right so if I put the lovely semicolon right here then this is all one sentence and this is okay right this works just fine right now with however though I can be a little sneaky I can do some things that I wouldn't normally do I can I can get creative with however we can tack it on to the end of a sentence as well and stop there all right this is also okay it still is affecting this clause because that's the one that it's attached to right and so I would say I don't eat out every day comma however and I would end my sentence and I could still have this semicolon here to connect these two sentences right so I'm using a comma before however because I'm gonna stop the sentence right here now it there there could be situations where I want to connect this to the next sentence right I could arguably go ahead and let's say I did this right let's say I ended this sentence right and I wanted to continue the next one I could say I don't eat out every day comma however and I could change this period to a semicolon and say it's cheaper to cook like I could do this this would be okay right so what we got to look for first of all is like remember that however needs to be connected to the clause that contrasts okay the clause that contrasts the one that doesn't follow the logical order is the one that you attach it to you attach it with a comma right this is attached with a comma you separate independent clauses with a semicolon so in this case I have the semicolon after however because I'm connecting three and two before I had the semicolon after clause number one and then used a comma to connect it to clause number two so just remember okay however needs to be attached to whichever sentence or whichever clause is the one that doesn't fit the logic the one that is out of place you attach it to that and then you just got a look okay do I need to use a semicolon to attach it to the next one like or not that's it that's really all there is to it that's how they play with you on on this okay that's what they do so so like to address your question with therefore right generally you wouldn't see therefore at the end of a sentence you could it's it's unlikely but if they do throw that out there again just analyze okay am I attaching this connector to the correct clause and I attach it to that clause with a comma so I want to look at the the connector the comma and the clause that it's connected to and say okay does that make sense is that where it goes and then just use a semicolon in the other place right if I did this like let's say I do this wrong right I don't need out every day semicolon however comma it's cheaper to cook this doesn't make sense now this is now broken because I don't need out every day it's cheaper to cook there's a logical connection between those two things like it makes sense those two things are logically connected I don't need out every day because it's cheaper to cook somebody here said because before and that's exactly why right like there this would be wrong it doesn't make sense to have however attached to sentence three because sentence three is logically connected to sentence two right so in this case I want to make sure that it's connected to sentence two because that will establish the contrast between one and two I hope that makes sense like that's the idea with however and stuff so all your connectors apply the same logic apply the same method to this like I want to make sure it's attached to the right clause if I flip these two punctuations around it's completely wrong it makes no sense if I if I keep it this way I understand that this however is telling me that this one contrasts with this one it always goes kind of in reverse right so up until I get to that semicolon or that period which it could be right that's some some things to know about this subject verb agreement is something else that was asked about here is there a situation on the SAT where however comes after and before in the same question multiple choices yeah well then I mean the answer would be again you got to do this you got to look at the the previous clauses and say okay which two clauses sentence one is okay sentence two is like the contradiction right so wherever there's the contradiction I need to put this with it now they're never gonna give you both of these options where you would have this and this they're never gonna give you both that would be correct okay so pay attention to the punctuation if they do that they're probably messing with the punctuation there's probably something wrong okay yeah so let's let's talk about some of that first and third person this stuff is really straightforward guys it's really really easy this this is something that you want to pay attention to I see this happen a lot with the grammar question so remember that we have in present tense right present tense always has this rule right I you we and they remember that they can represent plural is like a plural it right I can use they for multiple things that's just gonna be the verb in the base form right but then if I have a he she it it's gonna get the verb plus the s remember that there are those irregular forms like does or has right they don't we don't say haves right I don't go haves that doesn't exist right they're never gonna test you on that but just again we're looking at the s right we always want to see an s right here right if we're using he she or it so these are singular these are all singular right these are singular now on the test what they like to do is hide the subject sorry hitting buttons come on there we go all right the majority of people playing here's an example okay here's an example the majority of people blank to watch TV let's look at our options there's really only two options that I'm gonna give you here but I want you to think about these two options all right I'm gonna do another one of these while you think while you think about this I'm gonna write another one okay so let's just start with this first one right okay now there's a little bit of a couple things to think about here right first of all right the majority of people blank to watch TV right if I have this sentence then I'm not looking at people right because of the word of we're not gonna focus on people people would be like right people like to watch TV but here it says the majority of people and if we're being completely grammatically correct and and Nick said this best majority is singular technically the majority likes to do this right technically this would be correct because majority is singular now one thing and this is something to point out because this is commonly you know misunderstood sometimes there are some group words that we often associate as plural but those are not usually like those are more casually done like that's more like how we speak for example the police often we will hear people say the police are because police sort of represents a group of people and this is what you often hear people say but this isn't always what is grammatically correct right like truthfully we should say the police is you know a group of people whatever I whatever I want to say about it but truthfully that's that's what's grammatically correct so keep in mind that what might sound natural and sound right to you is not necessarily the right answer so yeah watch the prepositions like Nick said here like if I see this I know that I should not be looking at people and a common mistake is you'll go straight to the blank because that's what you're supposed to do you'll read backwards because that's what you're supposed to do you'll see people you'll go oh people like but then you got to keep going further back until you get to this word now take a look at this here right one type of chemical that scientists blank is now I want you to be careful with this because this is how they get you right this is how they get you you might start looking at this you go to the blank you say oh I gotta start reading this way and you might say oh scientists use is that right well hang on be careful because we have one type of chemical that sounds like singular doesn't it right but that doesn't matter because of this when I get to the word that I can stop going okay I can stop here and then go back here okay so in this case the correct answer is a because scientists use scientists is plural they use a chemical all right when I get to the word that I stop okay because I don't need to keep going that that is allowing me to introduce another subject it's allowing me to connect a different group of people to this thing so notice also that there's a clue here in the word is is applies to one type of chemical right so like one type of chemical is but this part in the middle that scientists use is is separate so that's what you want to watch out for I'm glad I'm glad I blew your mind Darren I can tell I think I blew your mind so yeah careful with these like this is what they try to do they try to they try to trick you okay they try to hide the subject sometimes they're so they're gonna set you up a lot of times I find the questions will start like this like this first example and they'll go oh you're gonna look at people and then you're gonna have to keep going back oh we got you haha but then the second one they'll be like a haul you actually aren't supposed to go all the way back you know so if you're going here and say one type I'm smart it's uses now that scientists use so this is how they try to sort of make it hard to find the subject that goes with the verb they deliberately try to hide it or separate it or move it around so that it makes these questions a little bit more difficult just keep reading backwards until you don't have to anymore and and I think sometimes but yeah the plot twist right they get you man also they like to do this with extra information okay and I think that that's something else to watch out for okay so just this right here again we'll do a nice simple a and b right we got forgive my dyslexia okay so again a lot of times they will do this they will add some extra information to sort of separate the subject if I see the two commas right if I see this extra information I skip all this none of this is relevant none of this matters to me right now okay exactly you got to believe a everybody got this one exactly this is good alright just making sure we know now on the real SAT this extra information will be like three freaking lines and it'll have like a whole bunch of extra crap in it and it'll take up a bunch of space and that's just to kind of mess with you right keep going back if you see a comma before the blank just jump all the way back to the next one okay like go all the way back because you don't need to look at any of this anything if this was you know if this was like freaking 20 words you could just skip it all okay yeah y'all are starting to clap I like it I like it a lot like to see that alright but yeah they play in mind games faith that that's what they do they mess in with you with the with the mind games now let's let's expand on this just a little bit let's go with I'm making up a number three billion people sure whatever okay now what I find they often do to make this a little bit more realistic to what you see on the test right if I go with three options here so a you might see so just look at something like this you might see something like this right don't overthink this okay what they like to do is give you three options that would work with plural and then one option that works with singular or vice versa they'll do the opposite sometimes just look for the one that's different okay the new World Trade Center would be an it and so it has is the correct answer and so see is it like don't even think about it more they're good what they want you to do is start over thinking it they want you to be like oh wait do I need the word been oh my god I'm not sure like they want to mess with your head they all I almost never see them actually test you on like what the right grammar tense is it's always just subject verb agreement so I don't even have to worry about anything that comes after this like all these words are irrelevant I just need to make sure I choose one that matches the subject so that's it that's all there is to it you know has been visited exactly CCC all the way you got it right to rocks and rock okay apostrophes yeah apostrophes I'm not sure why the rocks would have apostrophes I wonder what they were possessing but just remember is the word singular or plural right let me show you a quick example my parents cars engine exploded let's think about this all right think about where I would put apostrophes here I'm gonna tell you right now there's two apostrophes that need to go in this sentence there's two you need to the question is where where do we put two apostrophes right and I know I need to use apostrophes because I have a noun after a noun after a noun in English anytime you see this situation right like I'm gonna need to use apostrophes to connect these words okay so and yeah this is the live stream stays up forever so don't worry you can watch this later if you if you got to go to sleep or something right all right now the question is how many cars are there and how many parents are there now because engine is singular and we know that every car has an engine I don't think this is going to be correct this would be very strange this would imply that multiple cars have one engine and so unless you have manufactured a new kind of vehicle that I have never seen before I don't think that's correct so we're gonna put this here because it's one car one engine that makes sense now the bigger question here is parents normally in English if I say parents I'm referring to plural I'm usually referring to two people right most of the time I you could however be referring to just one parent perhaps now normally in English when you do that you probably would say father or mother like you usually use the specific term but we could take this in two different ways right we could say my parents again the initial word is parents there are two people right my parents cars engine exploded what this means is that my parents share a single car and the single engine of that single car exploded yeah okay that's how we would do that now if I had if I was referring specifically to one parent I could do this if I do this I'm talking about one parents cars right so just understand that like there are some situations where you could do both but you need to make sure that you're doing it correctly this if it's before the s is singular right if it goes after the s it's plural all right that's the rule similarly I see some people asking about similarly well so we tears but the main one asking about similarly when you are talking about similar things like when you're introducing a similar point or like usually we use that to introduce another reason like I might say oh there's three reasons for this first there's this similarly there's this like I want to make sure it's attached to the first idea it's just it's connected logically to the first idea right do you get to move on yes you do you can move on to the next module as soon as you are ready you don't have to wait for the time to expire I would still encourage you to take your time and check your answers and like make sure that everything is good use your time efficiently don't just go oh cool I got 10 minutes I can get out of here early today like that's a bad idea make sure you actually like take the minute to like you know check your answers and stuff but yeah if you've checked all your answers you're happy with all your answers you've verified that everything has been marked and you are done go ahead and move on go ahead and start the next module or start the math portion you know I've seen people asking about vocab questions with unknown words again there is only so much you can do there I can I can pull up some examples have I seen anyone attended a Stanford I've got people into Stanford at the post graduate level I have not gotten anybody into Stanford at the undergraduate level at score I do know somebody from Peru that got into Stanford as an undergraduate they were able to pay full price that definitely helped specifically means that I'm gonna get into more detail I'm gonna give a specific explanation of something so I usually start with a general phrase and then I go specific right like let's say I don't know my cat gave birth to a litter of kittens specifically three male cats and two female cats like I'm giving more specific details about something I just said that's when I would want to use those hey and I want you to get into Stanford if that's what you want man I mean if that's important to you good good luck with it I'm just understand all those colleges are hard to get into and it's not on it it's not anything bad about you it doesn't mean you're not a good student doesn't mean you're not good enough it just means a lot of people go to Stanford a lot of people apply to Stanford and that's part of the problem with these top colleges is is not that those top colleges are really that much better they're very very good but they are not incredibly better than like like honestly if you were like go to Stanford Georgia Tech Virginia Tech like Texas Tech like you're not gonna see a massive drop in your potential for your future going from like Stanford to Virginia Tech truthfully like you're still gonna get a really good education you're still gonna have the skills you need to get a job you're still gonna be a very successful person okay like are there probably some small benefits to going to Stanford sure are you gonna stand out maybe get a few more calls back when you send your resume out sure but like nobody on the planet is sitting there starving to death because they didn't go to Stanford like and I can tell you there's probably some people that went to Stanford that didn't turn out successful too so just remember that like yes everybody wants to go there doesn't necessarily mean it's what you need all right so good to look it's like a giraffe yeah I like the name uniquely would mean I'm talking about something different like you uniquely I would be pointing out something that is unique to that thing that I was just talking about does getting a job effect your college application absolutely work experience is one of the things that they evaluate and I think it's an underrated thing to put in your application a lot of people don't think about work experience but work experience does give you a lot of maturity it teaches you to be professional nothing they're like in school your teachers have to be kind of nice like your teachers aren't allowed to be mean to you completely in this day and age your boss there's no rules man you can get a horrible boss that treats you like absolute garbage and you still got to show up to work and you still got to do your job I'd like that's an experience you can't get in school you know so I think it's good to get student in UAE that's homeschooled under an American curriculum in Michigan I'm glad you appreciate the playlist rise thank you and good luck with helping your student out here that's an interesting scenario I was homeschooled in Michigan so I know about that yeah and then let me show you here so I like your point it goes exactly your dad didn't go to Stanford but he hires people from Stanford that's what I'm saying I got a person who works at score who studies at Harvard I didn't go to Harvard but I'm hiring people to do so like I mean did it I'll be real when I saw Harvard on her resume it got my attention I'm very happy to have someone who goes to Harvard but I've also hired people that went to like UNC I've hired people that didn't go to college at all you know because they got the skills so it's not like it definitely helped her yeah but she also does good work she's very responsible like if she wasn't those things I don't care if you went to Harvard like if you can't do the job I'm gonna fire you anyway like I think that's something people don't realize either it's like okay yeah I see Harvard on your resume gets my attention but you still had to impress me in an interview you still had to show me you could do good work and you had to be consistent because after a couple months I tried this person out and I said okay I like you you can work with me but if everything sucked I would have said get out of here I don't care that you went to Harvard so it might help you get your foot in the door might help you get opportunities but it's not gonna be the thing that you know determines your future man all right so let's take a look at some of these other things people's asking about a lot of people with the vocab again there's not a lot of good answers for vocab but let me let me crack open one of my vocab exercises maybe I can show you a thing or two okay because I think that I have some really hard ones in here that I haven't even used in my classes actually that might be helpful let me let me take a look because I have a handful of extra vocab exercises that I haven't fully used in my courses and stuff that are like tricky okay and maybe I'll find some in here that I don't actually know or that I because I legitimately do come I mean English is English has one of the largest vocabularies of any language in the world because it's like the bastard child of several other languages so English is hard don't feel bad if you don't know all your words but like I'll show you an example of let's see if I can find some stuff in here yeah this this could be kind of useful alright let's let's go to here alright so like let's just say I got some of these vocabulary questions this is from one of my more like advanced sets that I don't normally use right like let's just look at this one right okay the traders were blank in their work huddled around their terminals in the trading pits okay so I'm assuming that because it's saying the Wall Street hustle was alive and well and the traders were something in the work they're probably like deeply involved in their work it says they're trying to outsmart their competitors so I'm assuming they're being very competitive or very like involved all right I'm gonna tell you right now there are words I don't know here okay I mean this a hundred percent I'm not even making this up for you that's why I haven't used them in my classes to the legend Tyler the legend Tyler went pretty hardcore on some of these vocab questions it's kind of my fault because I told him like dude pull some words from GRE let's make some hard ones and then they were like too hard and yeah yeah if you're getting anxiety how you think I feel all right but I can tell you this I can I can figure some things out all right first of all I know that I know this word I know that idle means like you're not doing anything and I know that is not correct because of what I've seen up here apathetic is almost never the right answer because that means you don't care and usually in the stuff that we read and write somebody cares about something anytime you see an answer that is like apathetic it's almost always wrong now I don't know what a city this means I really don't I truthfully I have no idea like I could maybe try to analyze the word parts and be like all right well do us is kind of like a way to describe something like you know I think of that in other words I've seen that before but the acid part maybe it's like assist maybe it's like you know like you're you are trying to help something or make something happen like a situous I really don't know a loof I've heard before I think it kind of means like you're not interested or just kind of like you think you're too important for something or like feel like whatever man I don't care so I don't really I don't know but I've used process of elimination and I'm gonna say it's a like I'm pretty I know for sure C and D are wrong I think I have an idea about B that tells me that it's wrong and then a like I'm pretty sure that's the only option left and just I'm trying to think of what I know about this word and I'm like all right well if I think about the acid part maybe it's like assistance maybe it's like it means you're you know being helpful or trying to do the work well I don't know let's see if I'm right like did I get the answer yeah situous so I genuine like I literally want to look this up now and like see what the answer is because I don't know what that is showing great care and perseverance see I truthfully had no idea but process of elimination so that's what you got to do like if you run into words that you just don't know go with the ones you do first all right see if they work if they do great you found it if not eliminate get yourself between a 50-50 okay take a guess and move on I'm not gonna notice I answered that about 20 seconds that's what you have to do also you cannot sit there and just like just stare at it forever what keyboard do I have though I got the I got a drop control mechanical that I bought and put the switches in and did all that it's it's very nice it's very heavy makes makes very nice clicky noises okay like another one here all right this includes even blank who come from all over the world in search of a better life and a brighter future America's a nation of immigrants like okay so this is people this includes bank blank who I'm looking for a word that could be people and I actually can use what I see in the words to figure this out it's these three words are adjectives I don't know what munificent is but I know that magnificent like it like I know other words end in a scent and I know that that means they're adjectives so I know I don't need these words because I'm looking for a word that could be a person and I also expect it to be plural because it's talking about immigrants you know like I get the impression that it's talking about people plural so a must be right it is I don't know what a mendicant is either but I know that these three words must I know what opulent is I know what disadvantaged is I don't know what this is but I know it's an adjective it's got to be this so like this is this is how you do it like if you don't know some words you've got to figure out you know what like what other ways you can do to sort of find the answer and for me it was like all right I know these are adjectives I need a noun so can I figure out what part of speech I need can I figure out maybe using parts of the word what it might mean can I eliminate any answers that I definitely know are wrong right our ivy's test optional for fall 2024 most of them are yeah I think I think so I think they all still are most of the Ivy League colleges are going to be be like that right so yeah beggars I guess mendicants is like beggars something that somebody said here Ashish maybe that's what it is I don't know but again just I looked at that s and that kind of gave me a clue I was like and the who in the sentence gave me the clue you know so yeah also this is a good this is a good example of some things like where there's subtle differences in the words and so we want to make sure we identify those like alright French food we're talking about French food from the classic French onion soup to the Capsa Brittany there is a vast variety of blank dishes available so again I'm all right all of these are adjectives so all of these work now it seems like this is a positive sentence so I'm gonna eliminate negative words like unappetizing edible is kind of neutral I mean if we're talking about food all food is supposed to be editable edible right so that would be dumb and I don't think healthy is where we want to go with this because that sort of changes the topic so palatable even if you didn't know what that word meant I can use process of elimination right should be be yeah it is okay so this is what it is like this is how we approach these questions right I want to look at what kind of word do I need and then I want to match the tone sometimes and sometimes maybe you can tell that a word is negative even if you don't know what it means like I see the on and I know it must be bad but I know that this tone is so far very positive so I wouldn't want to choose an on like I want to choose something you know that's a little more like affirmative Mexico's not without its struggles corruption it come on quality violence the government has been blank in that's not that should be this should be in not been many of these issues okay so it's because this previous sentence says corruption I'm I'm assuming they're trying to say that the government has been kind of partially responsible for this okay acquiescent I know that to acquiesce means to like let somebody else have their way to sort of like give somebody else what they want blithe I think blithe is kind of like where you care free or I'm not sure I don't remember I've seen that like old literature complicit I think is like like an accomplice right like the accomplice is the person that helps somebody else do something bad so complicit accomplice like I think that's probably the what they're looking for here like they're trying to say that the government is sort of responsible for this problem complacent with me they're just chilling and I don't think that's the point here so I don't remember the exact definition of this but I think it's similar to this and I don't think this is quite right either because it's not that they're just giving people what they want it's like for these issues they're actually part of the problem I think that because of the connection to the word accomplice I'm gonna pick C and that's it okay so like that's what it be yeah so that's how I approach these like I right now I'm trying to show you how I would approach these if I don't totally know the words and and I want you to see kind of how there are ways to do that again I'm looking for parts speech I'm looking for connections to other words that I know I'm looking for process of elimination wherever possible and I'm also not gonna spend more than 30 or 40 seconds on these questions I have to keep moving if I don't do that I'm gonna have a bad time and and Darren you're welcome man I'm very happy that I was able to help you out with like these things I look I know there's a lot of people out there that want you to pay for classes and like want you to buy their material and stuff and my thing is just like you deserve better than that I I believe that the international student community deserves better like there's a lot of people that want to take advantage of desperation and uncertainty and it's a great way to make money honestly I could probably be a lot richer if I did things differently but I'm happy doing what I'm doing so that's all that matters truthfully like it's a little frustrating sometimes like in this business because like what we do with counseling and stuff we charge way less than some of these other companies you know and there's these big big players like you know I want to name names because my business partner is a lawyer and he gets upset when I do that but like ones that are named after colors and definitely you know target Ivy League universities like they'll charge families you know fifteen twenty thousand dollars for like something anybody can kind of do and I know that because we trained a lot of people to do this and they do a really good job that's like I charge like less than 10% of what some of these companies charge and it's just like why do you need to charge people so much you know why do you need to like convince people that it's necessary to pay a ridiculous amount of money for something that isn't actually that complicated none of these college counseling companies have like a super secret formula I know that what I do is not that different from what my competitors do and it's not that different from what the best companies do we all do the same thing but the difference is some of us do it honestly and some of us do it exploitatively I don't know if that's a word you know but like for me it's just all about being real with people and leveling with people and trying to make it possible for more people to get this you know this is the this is a vocabulary set six I actually don't have that in the student materials folder because this one has some problems as you can see for some reason it everything it thinks everything is a link to something it's all kind of broken this one I don't know why I need to remake this one so that's why it's not actually in the student materials folder also just because it's way hard for SAT so that's kind of why I haven't included it because it's like this isn't an accurate representation of what the SAT is like dual passages saving time yeah let me pull up some of those I can show you some period passes and I also have charts that I want to get to in a little bit of poetry I'll show you some things let's pull up some uh all right actually let me go like with one that I don't I think I've already looked at some of these ones this is this could be a good one all right so first thing that I want to do with this and there's a mosquito flying around me man I don't want to get mosquito bites they've been bad this year in Peru there's like a dengue outbreak anyway so what I want to do here is try to figure out the relationship between the passages that is really important okay I need to usually get that information from like the first part and the last part of the paragraph so if I read here okay a long history of intervening in other countries affairs I just say that we're talking about the United States military and that the United States military intervenes in other countries affairs I if I look at the end of this I can get the other part of this idea says we should be working together with these nations instead of trying to control them through force alone okay so this person is not a fan of the United States military being involved in other countries like this approach only destabilizes region so this person does not like US military intervention this guy says the nation needs to focus on its own security right and this at the end it says by focusing on strengthening internal protection measures while also maintaining awareness of external dangers American position to defend itself now in the future so I get the impression that this person is more pro-military so these two people have some opposite points of view let's imagine that there is a spectrum right there is on one side people who are totally like against the US using its military in other countries and on the other side there's people that are okay with that right and then there's something in the middle and the question is what would they agree on so I'm looking for that thing in the middle well what would be in the middle well maybe okay supporting the military for defense but not for interventions that could be in the middle maybe you know at least being aware of foreign threats right like that seems reasonable we're not saying you have to necessarily send your army into Afghanistan but like maybe be aware that there's a problem developing in Afghanistan right those would be like good middle ground options so if I'm looking for what they would agree on when they have two different points of view I'm trying to think about what might be a good middle ground right and then knowing that the two ends of the spectrum exist I can eliminate answers already so agree that the US should invade other countries this is wrong because passage one did not say that both would agree diplomacy is more effective than military I don't know about this because the second guy says focused on security and aware I don't know I'm not convinced that this would be the right answer about diplomacy I'm not sure I don't feel like this guy is gonna be very pro diplomacy when he talks about security and protection and like he seems to be worried about the outside threats traditional military invention troops are not necessarily the best approach okay I like this because first of all not necessarily the best it is a middle ground it's not an extreme position okay so if I'm looking at two different people with two different points of view and I'm trying to find the middle I want to pick an answer that feels like it's in the middle and this is doing that I like this and I think that the second I know the first guy would definitely agree the second guy probably would because he doesn't say at the end here that we need to exterminate the dangers or like invade and liberate Iraq like he says maintaining awareness of external dangers so it implies to me that like maybe he's saying we don't need to invade but we do need to keep an eye on the bad people right um right support using force to influence this is also wrong this is exactly why the first guy is upset so it's got to be see this is it okay so there we go you know um that's how I would do it again first part last part the first part and last part paragraphs are like a sandwich you got the bread on the top and the bread on the bottom and then you got the meat in the middle but for the purposes of identifying the sandwich I only need to see the bread I know it's a sandwich when I see the bread okay metaphors like I don't need to know exactly what it says in here right now I just need to get the main idea because I'm just trying to figure out what they would agree on and I just need to know their positions and then I need to look at answers that naturally would fit in between those positions and not be too extreme on either side done easy peasy uh to answer your question Adelina about summer camps they do have some benefits but it depends on what kind of thing you're doing like if you're doing it like as an extracurricular activity sure go ahead and do summer camps like if they're related to your major if it's like a coding camp for computer science like that's cool we'll do stuff like that um if it's like a university thing like if it's a summer program at a university it will help you more at that university but don't expect to help you much like with a bunch of other universities like most universities don't care if you did a month thing at Yale they are Yale does but like yeah you know it's not the most important thing um all right so I mean Ashish what I do is I read the first part and last part first okay and see what I can get and if I still can't figure that the answer then I'll go to the middle but what I don't want to do is read all of this text because there's just stuff in here that's not going to matter I only have four choices so I don't need to worry about like every last detail you know um and and so I think that reading the first part and last part helps me get the main ideas quickly and that helps me save time on these things like okay if I have this one what would the author of the second passage believe about the first passages conclusion I need to read this before I read this okay like this is going to be the second thing that I read and this is going to be the first thing that I read all right I'm just going to make it yellow so passages conclusion okay that's right here let's go ahead and do that and again I wouldn't normally bother highlighting this on the test for the record don't waste your time with the highlighting tool anybody telling you to do that is smoking something good um as evidenced by recent reports from university about child mortality rates due to effective planning measures put into action okay so what they're saying here is China's one child policy was good because they saw an improvement in child mortality rates after putting this into place so this person is saying China's one child policy was good for China good for kids reduced the child mortality rates now I need to get the main idea of this one so I'm going to read first part and last part right and let's just go here and do this again I'm just highlighting it for illustration purposes global demographic decline is an issue that threatens our global society in the 2020s uh potential strain on economies global demographic decline carries social ramifications cultural continuity okay so what I understand this guy is saying is demographic decline the a reducing population um will have problems so what I understand here is that one guy is saying look how good China's one child policy is it reduced child mortality this other guy's saying yeah but it's also going to reduce the total number of people which could possibly lead to serious societal problems so knowing that I can go through the answers um author the second page would dispute the conclusion because it only looked at the short term impact this could be true this could be good because I think this is more of a long-term like thing that would happen um this could be a good answer author would agree with the conclusion no I don't think he's going to just agree with this and and implement now this so no this b is going to be wrong all right he's not totally in favor author believe that the implementation of China was irrelevant for improving of his hand now that wouldn't be true either usually irrelevant is like not going to be the right answer again those neutral answers that don't really mean anything usually or they're wrong all right acknowledge would acknowledge the immediate impact but note that more serious consequences would eventually rise this is the right answer this is a hundred percent it this is a better version of a this gives more specific details from the text so this is the right answer that's all I had to read I read this I looked at this I went through the answers done simple as that all right um so yeah I'm sorry it's a little difficult it's it's kind of hard to squeeze all this stuff in here but like again just what I want you and again you can follow along this is paired passages set for this is in the folder but that's what I'm saying first part last part is going to help you a lot in terms of finding like the main ideas so that you can answer these questions I need to know the the author of the second passages main idea his overall opinion his perspective if I can see things from his perspective then I will be okay I will be able to understand what he would say about something right if you know the perspective of a person you can then infer what their views are on other things so I want to just know what perspective they're coming from and that's the main idea and so I don't need to read everything here I could have read all this and he would have explained all sorts of reasons why this is dangerous but he also kind of summarizes it here so I didn't need to read all this this is this would have been a waste of my time and I didn't really need to read all this either like this is unnecessary because I'm looking at the conclusion specifically so just read what you need believe me read what you need and yeah a lot of times Darren like there's there's two answers that are okay but one of them is usually not specific enough or doesn't quite get all the points that it needs to so watch out for that with paired passages I find there's a lot of times there's one answer that's like feels good but it's not the right answer this one I mean this is true he would dispute the conclusion because it only looked at the short term impact yeah he might say hey hang on a second you're only looking at the short term you know like what about the long term but at the same time like there's more to this answer there's more to it than that and here I can see that this is a good answer because he says he would acknowledge the immediate impact like in this case he's saying all right okay yeah it might have been good for child mortality but more serious consequences will eventually arise there's going to be other problems that you haven't thought about and I know that because of what he said here so this one completes that answer a little bit more and it's a little more accurate because it mentions China's policies on child mortality rates which is specifically from that conclusion that's how you want to approach these want to do some poetry let's do some poetry let me see here all right I got a little bit poetry stuff not a lot of poetry stuff there's only a couple of these so don't panic about them too much um let me see I think wait now this isn't the one I want either hang on let me close this one I think this one was also yeah useful okay so we have two different ways of getting poetry questions okay there are there are two styles of poetry questions on the sat so I made two different kind of sets here this one has a little bit of a mix of poetry and prose this one is all poetry but in that style so these are support the claims with lines from the poem that's what these do okay so The Raven is a narrative poem by Edgar Allen Poe written in 1845 right in the poem Poe alludes to a dead loved one and the author is teased by a talking raven okay so this is like usually what they're gonna do here is give you very short text this is a very short text that is like just a quick summary or and this is the claim this is the claim that we're trying to match right they're telling us some detail about this poem sometimes I don't understand sometimes why it's so hard to highlight in this program but anyway Poe alludes to a dead loved one and the author is teased by a talking raven there are two things I need to do here I need to find lines that do two things one allude to a dead loved one two teased by a raven I need those two things so looking at this uh books sorrow lost Lenore this this is the first part but not the second part quaff will quaff this kind of pen to forget this loss of nor I don't know what this quaff and the pen means but I see loss of the nor that's probably the lost loved one because it's got a capital letter it's a person and she's lost uh quote the raven never more okay so there's the there's the raven that would be the bird the raven that talks this is the right answer done it has both the things that's it this one only has the raven this one only has the raven this is the only one that matches the two things it's b it's gotta be there you go done um osamandias illustrates the claim same deal shelly wrote the poem after hearing news from english explorers about their return to egypt okay so i'm looking for something from the poem that connects to this idea of english explorers returning from egypt uh i met a traveler from an antique land that sounds pretty good too vast and trunkless legs of stones stand in the desert that feels like the right answer the desert egypt antique land traveler english explorers from egypt i mean that seems like the right answer to me i'm probably going to go with that answer um i i could go ahead and look at the others but i'm pretty confident and say and it is so like that's it it's just that simple um the road not taken is a 1915 15 poem by robert frost some literary analyst posit that the poem implies the choices we make do not really matter all right this poem is fun because a lot of people interpreted as like oh you should take your own path and you should do your own thing and you should choose a way that's different from most people um but there's also a lot of people that think it actually is like saying that there's no difference to where you go all right so two roads sorry i could not travel both long i stood okay this just says he's thinking about the two roads that doesn't tell me anything took the other just as fair perhaps having the better claim now this is saying one road was better than the other uh i kept the first for another day okay knowing how way leads on to way all right so like he's kind of saying all right i took one but i left the other and i know that sometimes one can lead you to another anyway this kind of makes sense like this is saying like all right it doesn't really matter what you choose because one path will take you to another path eventually so like you would get to your destination regardless i doubted if i should ever come back like i don't need to come back and try the other way because one way leads to the other eventually your choices don't matter the choice is not important see is the right answer it is okay so that's all it is yes make a dumb summary that's it that's a really good way to put it there like yeah just make a dumb summary you know like that's all i'm trying to do here is keep it really simple um so don't get too caught up if you don't know whether whether a poem means something literally or metaphorically um i think a lot of times it's metaphorical although if it's descriptions a lot of times it's literal like descriptions tend to be literal right like they try to give you a visual they try to show you a picture and then they compare somebody to that thing so the descriptions themselves might be literal but then how they are applied to like a person or an animal or something else is usually the part that's metaphorical um all right so that's a couple poetry things like in these ones you get the main idea of the passage and you get a bunch of lines of poetry with these these can be tricky you want to make sure you read them carefully what i tell people to do here is pay attention to like the transition words in these texts okay so i find those are helpful for me um and also remember that there are a lot of times repeated ideas in different ways right so he says when i have fears that i may cease to be the fear of death before something and something else and blah blah blah like this is all blah blah blah right here everything from here on down is blah blah blah i don't need to read this i can tell because he's saying i may cease to be before something else and when i like all right so again this goes back to the same idea i think i may never live to trace like he again he's thinking about this fact that like i could die at any time man all right this is the same idea as this basically right just different ways of saying it poetry loves to say the same thing in different words multiple times so what you want to do is kind of like try to use some of these like starting words to help you find out where you can skip right and another and right when i feel that i shall never look upon thee more okay this is a little more important like now he's thinking about not seeing you must be somebody he loves or somebody he really cares about right i i stand alone and think to love and fame do nothing this do sink so kind of saying here like i guess what i'm getting here is that like i'm worried about like dying early and not being able to see this person that i love and realize that like you know um these things are important but they all everything fades away at some point right like so i kind of see here like um man will never comprehend the mysteries of the universe is wrong like this is a trick because this is literal this is like trying to get to this idea of the star night's face or whatever like he's looking at the clouds and imagining that yeah like this is too literal him staring in the sky right everything and everyone in the universe is fleeting um now i think that that is kind of accurate like i stand i think do love and fame do nothing this do sink like he's sitting there thinking about this stuff until these things kind of fade away but i don't i'm not i'm not sold on this one i'm not convinced i might have to stick must preserve the legacy through creation no he's not talking about preserving his legacy true love will stand the test of time this seems like this could be a good answer too because he does see this idea of like worrying about never being able to see you right so i'm kind of torn between b and d at this point like i feel like those both have some good answers right um to me i'm i'm looking at these lines again it's kind of hard to say i think that just because like he's not saying that the love is eternal but rather that it does sink and that because he's worried more about the his own death i think it's more b than d at this point i think it's more b than d but i'm not a hundred percent sure i'll be honest i could be wrong here i haven't looked at this one in a while and i also can't sit here and think about it forever because i gotta move on all right i was right it was b good for me but i gotta make a decision eventually so that's what i did so pretty pretty is like excuse me from back then yeah i pray the i pray the like that's no way isn't it yeah um all right so less time on charts and data analysis i know some people fast about those and i have those on my notes so i think that'd be a good one to look at uh definitely check out the videos if you if you haven't already or review those again but i can show you a little bit more i know i didn't talk about those too much we can take a look um let me close some of these out of here so charts and graphs there's two ways to do these questions supports the claim and logically completes the text before you even think about the charts and the graphs i want you to think about the fact that these are supporting claims questions which are a form of the evidence questions nishant i see you've asked about those as well um again command of evidence just generally refers to like supporting claims questions so this is kind of the same thing um and this is a sentence completion exercise so remember that this is not just a charts and graphs question this is a sentence completion question this is a supporting claims question you should treat it like this first so anytime i have a supporting claims question these evidence questions i have to find the evidence to support the claim what i want to do is identify the claim before i do anything else i need to know what the claim is i'm going to look for the person and i'm going to look for like so i see jill mccormick i'm looking for the researcher right i'm looking for jill mccormick i see the name there and i go okay let's see what she says believes that dating apps need to focus on specific relationship statuses in order to find growth okay and she also argues that focusing on specific relations to happen says including less common statuses could lead to growth so this kind of repeats that idea with a little more detail so all i'm going to do now is look at the answers and pick an answer that does these things so 30 of all us adults have used a dating app no this is wrong i'm looking for specific relationship statuses the group with the lowest usage rate are married couples okay that is a specific status but it also doesn't make any freaking sense for there to be a bunch of apps for married couples this is wrong like i would yeah duh married people don't use dating apps unless you know there's some problems at home um you know so that's not going to be the right answer the only group with any growth was the divorce separated widow category okay this automatically feels good because this is these are specific groups and these are less common statuses notice that the fact that all three of them are put together means they must be less common they're adding up to a bigger number but i'm combining three different groups that are very specific so and and they are the only group with any growth at all one percent more so it must be c done okay you cannot find previous dsat tests that she they don't exist don't trust anybody who tells you they have them all right they don't exist you can't get previous tests because they're probably going to recycle some of those questions in the future um it's not like before where we had people that could illegally copy a test and put it on the internet for people uh the digital s at questions are all unique on every computer so there is no such thing as the previous dsat there's your previous dsat and there's the previous dsat of the person next to you but there is no such thing as uh a previous test that you can just pull up all right so if anybody's trying to sell that you don't give them your money okay so like again same thing here supports the researchers claim what's the researchers claim coolong okay again i like to look for capital letters because that helps me find the name he's proposed that creating mechanisms for specific age groups claims there is more than one gender pay gap it's an ineffective to look at the entire female population he says it would be best to focus on older workers okay so i'm looking for an answer that does not look at the entire female population and instead focuses on older workers so uh this one focuses on younger workers so that's not going to be correct uh comparing all female workers that's not going to be correct because he just said not to do that female workers uh again this one focuses on the wrong group um okay so this one here says is okay but hang on all right this one's comparing this one to the rest and if i look at these charts that means that the older workers are everybody above 34 and he does say that it should focus more on older workers so this is correct it's got to be D it's got to be D because he's saying this one compared to all we don't have the data for all but we can infer that if we have data for these two young groups all would be all over here and we would go with that D dot that's it that's all i gotta do just match the claim okay same thing with these other ones like if i have um this here right which most logically completes the text this is a sentence completion question before anything else okay so complete the freaking sentence it says here representative joan kelvick notes that this issue is most egregious in the senate comma where so i need an answer that talks about this issue which i think is this minority representation says this number is still quite low so women minority representation in the senate in particular so i just want to look for an answer that talks about the senate and gives me the right information um okay only two indian and native american senators that is true but i need to look at these dots or these squares and this here says two but these two are in the house they are not in the senate i can see that there are only three in the senate one two three nothing else in the senate so i'm looking for an answer that probably tells me that so this one's definitely wrong because it's talking about five representatives and i'm looking for three this one's wrong because it's not about the senate there only three minority representative yep this is it this is your right answer because it says three that's literally what's in the chart and that's focused on the senate done that's it okay so i'm completing this sentence i need to focus on this sentence i do not want to waste my time reading all the rest i don't need to worry about answers that don't do this just focus on the sentence so that's how you make these charts and graphs questions super easy peasy everybody okay just remember like they are either supporting claims or sentence completion questions treat them as such i don't look at the data until i look at the paragraph and the answers and i use the data to confirm the answers here i said oh is that true oh it is but not for the senate so i use the data to confirm that this answer was incorrect and then i already knew that this answer was incorrect because of what i just looked at and i knew that this was the right answer done easy as that okay so it's pretty much it um sure and i spent a good bit of time on punctuation at the beginning of class here today so i'm probably like i don't know if you have a specific punctuation you want me to look at we could take a look at it but like we talked a lot about m dashes semicolons punctuated with transition words like we did a lot of that at the very beginning here um so let's see yeah people pass about transitions at lina um i mean it's kind of like what we talked about before there's not there's not a whole lot more to say about transitions you just got to know your words and choose the right ones it's it's pretty straightforward like i i have this one vocab set that does a lot of transition words um wait no that's that's only those definitions let me pull up these i mean this is basically a right best like we can go through these really fast but like again i'm just looking for the connection between two sentences so anytime i see best transition i'm looking for okay the blank is here i need to look at the sentence before and the sentence after this is all you need to read okay all right so exercising can reduce stress blah blah blah all right so it's adding more benefits it's it's explaining more things that come from this it can reduce stress improve sleep strengthen bones and muscles so i guess like so like it helps to protect chronic diseases consequently it's got to be consequently that's the first answer yeah if you sleep better and reduce stress then you're gonna have less diseases like heart disease perfect done right um provides the best transition okay the world the world is constantly changing and with those changes come new opportunities blank it's important to stay open-minded okay so changes new opportunities there's a logical connection between these things because of this i should also do this therefore yeah there it is right there therefore right because this is a logical conclusion like if there's change and change means opportunity then you need to stay open-minded d must be right there you go done why would i say however here like i see you she's i see what you deleted why would i want to say however there's no difference there's no why would i say however to stay open-minded when i just told you that we had new opportunities remember what these words are for this i have two words that do a contrast and then i got one more that kind of like goes into more detail now further more would work if i was giving more information about those opportunities right you know further more the people that sees those opportunities will be more successful in life or or another reason about the changes further more you know adapting to changes will make you a more resilient and happy person like in this case i'm trying to look at the direct consequence of this like the the direct result if change equals new opportunity then you should stay open-minded so that you can embrace the change right all right same thing here uh many people are intimidated by the thought of public speaking it's important skill to have blank there are a few simple steps that you can take to help the lesson if you're okay um so i'm looking for again this is a logical follow-up um i'm looking at subsequently probably here let's take a look meanwhile doesn't make sense because that would be like two different actions happening at the same time subsequently makes sense because like you've just told me that it's important and now you're telling me how to do it so there's like this is the subsequent thing like okay it's important subsequently there are a few simple steps you can take that that feels like that's probably the right answer however doesn't really work because we just did a contrast with although at the beginning so i wouldn't want to say however there are a few simple steps like although maybe that does work because it says intimidated hang on i may have overlooked something here although many people are intimidated it's important to go have however there are a few simple steps you can take to help you lessen your fear yeah actually this is the connection there it is hang on look at this so this is why it's important to keep reading the sentence because here i i'm up until this point i was thinking subsequently now that i'm looking at this and seeing lessen your fear intimidated by this is now kind of trying to help me feel better it's saying hey look we know that look it is important i know a lot of people are scared however there are some things you can do to reduce your fear i think that now that the the how the fear connection is there it must be however i think and honestly i think subsequently and consequently you're a little bit too similar to each other in this case for the for either one to be correct so however yeah so make sure you read the whole sentence i almost made a mistake here by just kind of stopping i didn't really look at this first sentence in enough detail and i didn't read all the way through the second sentence make sure you read all the first sentence all the second sentence or else you might rush into a bad judgment like i almost did okay so yeah um here's one more in spite of difficult circumstances many people have found ways to be successful something else they demonstrate the hard work and determination okay so i think that this is like a logical continuation many people found ways to be successful and those people this demonstrate hard work and determination can lead to all right so this is kind of like a furthermore i think out of these options because like i don't see a contrast for nevertheless or whereas therefore would be like i don't see the exact logical conclusion of that therefore they demonstrate many people found ways to be successful like i feel like this is another aspect an additional point i'm going to go with furthermore yeah yeah that's good so this is what i want to do just read the first sentence read the second sentence try to figure out what is the logical relationship between these two sentences and then choose the core the connector that does that that's all you got to do you do have to know your connectors you have to know the small differences like you know um if it's a like therefore would work and another good trick sometimes if you're not sure is think okay if it was this connector how would the next sentence sound like in spite of difficult circumstances many people found ways to be successful therefore it's important not to give up when you are facing a challenge because you too can succeed that would be a logical follow-up with therefore but that's not what i see here i see this again it's still talking about the same people that can also be a clue many people they so i'm adding another point about this about these people something else that they do and so furthermore is a better fit because it's not exactly a logical continuation but just a different idea about the same thing this class will always be available on the internet yes i'm not going to take anything down don't worry i keep it up here a lot of people watch these and i'm you know this is what generates most of my uh watch time on youtube so yeah i'm not going to get rid of these you can come back later if you want all right um so anyway um this is more or less what i got right now um so i gotta be getting going because i actually got other things to do i got places to be in a little bit it's been about two hours which is more or less what i had in mind for today um i think we covered a lot of good stuff as always if you have other questions feel free to leave comments on the videos i really appreciate everybody watching this stuff and checking it out and i hope you get a really good result on your june 3rd sat and then from there we really want to start focusing on our application process so i'm going to be publishing a couple more videos soon about like some colleges that i visited in spain and then i'm going to be talking a lot about the application process we're going to start talking about essays we're going to talk about letters of recommendation you know everything that you need to get your application ready uh if you've seen the last few videos i talked a lot about the way to get your research organized and it's really important that you're doing that right now you need to analyze your college list and make sure you're choosing universities that are a good fit for you not just the best or the ones that you want the most like choose universities that actually want people like you if you don't do that you're more likely going to get rejected so take your time research your colleges make make smart informed decisions using the data and then when you've done that you'll know what you need to get together for your applications we're going to start talking about those deliverables all those things that you need to bring to the application when i go to the us in july i'm going to make a bunch of videos to asking admissions officers about their perspective on these things so i'm going to get some real legitimate sources for you so that you can hear it from real people that actually would look at your applications and then later this year i'm going to be taking a trip to england so we're going to have some university videos from england too later this year which is going to be fun that's a whole new thing so if i listen to alina if you get a 1450 i don't think i'm 40% of the result i'll take 10% of the credit at most at the end of the day you all get the results that you deserve because of your work i am happy to be a small part of your success but let it be known i don't take credit for your success and you should you are the ones that make it happen that's one of the reasons i don't even advertise sat scores on like our instagram or on on the channel because like i have people in my class gotten 1500 plus yes they have do i believe everyone's going to do that just because they take class with me no that's why i don't put that out there because i think it's very misleading to suggest to people oh just take this class and you'll get 1510 like like my boy did like that's him that's his result because of his work that had nothing to do with me that had nothing to do with pili that had nothing to do with the bar though in my opinion and i would not sit there and try to convince people that if you come with me like that's what those that's what that marketing does it's subtly telling you hey if you pay for my course you're going to get the best score possible i don't agree with that at the end of the day it's your results from your work and your preparation if my stuff has helped you with that then i'm very happy that's what i want you know but just understand that's what it is um filimon best way to get in touch with me is whatsapp to be honest with you like if you email me yeah i'll probably catch it but i don't always check my email all the time while i have the whatsapp open all the time so feel free to go there um yeah i made download adobe reader or just google chrome like i literally can open any of these pdfs in chrome i'll show you right now i'll show you just so you can see that i'm not crazy right um here look like chrome the button works a million people ask me how to get the answers to the english part i thought i was smart by doing this button i was not smart i should have just put the answers at the end on a separate page or something i'm stupid i i put this button because i thought it was cool and then a billion people are like how do i get the answers and it's like dude dude i've answered this question 400 times and like i thought it was smart i thought this button was so cool i was so proud of myself when i made this button i had no idea that it was gonna become like this constant thing that i had to always explain it works yo it works but for those who figured it out think of it as a test all right good for you all right thank you darin i appreciate the appreciation because this button has been like a curse since i did it i was like this is i was like this is so genius i've programmed these buttons and y'all should see my workflow i had this like amazing workflow for these materials like i would actually i use chat gpt to generate the paragraphs straight up and then i would ask chat gpt the question and then i would modify the answers and stuff to kind of get it just right and then i would put that into an excel and then that excel went to an in design template and then i could just hit one button and it would spit out all the pdfs for a given question type instantly i didn't have to make them one by one and then like i would put them all together into the folder and check them it was this wonderful workflow and the button was automated and everything and i was so proud of myself and then i've just had to explain it to like four million people um so lesson learned you know sometimes simpler is better um yeah so that's funny but yeah i know the button's pretty cool when it works when you know but i realized like i didn't think about how so many people would just go into google drive open it up and try to click it and it wouldn't work like i i just didn't think about that at all i didn't even contemplate that when i made it so it's it's kind of funny how that goes um but if you figured it out for yourself good for you um again nishant what's the best college dude give me an example like that i need it there's 4 000 universities in the us i think hundreds of them are excellent i don't think that you know like there's the best college you know um best score for an average student like i think you're you're given this too much priority here to be honest with you i think you're overthinking it like again anything 1300 plus you can send that just about anywhere my girl check out the video i made about claudia and alba who got into columbia seriously all of you if you're seriously thinking about top schools go watch the videos go look at what i've talked about here i've explained so much about this stuff like claudia and alba both got in to columbia with full ride scholarships i think claudia had like 1370 or 1380 on her sat i think alba was like around the same place i think she had like 1400 maybe but that just goes to show you like and neither of them had ib they just had 11 years of peruvian education guys like they didn't have an amazing academic rigor but you know what they had they had an amazing personality they had incredible maturity for their age they had passions and clear goals and determination and just like they're the kind of people you want to be around because they care about the right things they were not obsessing over their sat scores they weren't like they didn't even think they were going to get into columbia they were both like if i do it's great and i probably won't whatever they were humble and realistic about this whole process they were super content to go to a bunch of other universities that they applied to even like mid-tier public schools they were just happy to get a better education than they could get peru and because of that attitude i'm telling you now they got in it had nothing to do with their sat it had nothing to do with their academics because at that at those universities everybody has good sat everybody has good academics what makes you different is you you have to know yourself you have to believe in yourself you have to know who you are if you don't if you're not confident in being yourself if you don't know what that means that's why you're not going to get in like i can tell you right now they they don't want people who still are just like i don't know what i'm doing with my life like they want people that know what they're doing and believe in themselves and are comfortable being themselves people who aren't trying to impress the school people who just show up to the interview as if it's a normal conversation they're like whatever if i get in great if not whatever but i want to be me i want to be myself and i'm not going to pretend to be someone else just to get into some college because then i'm going to have to pretend forever i don't want to pretend i want to be me so i'm going to be me in my essays i'm going to be me in my interviews and if you don't like it fine i don't go to that college then because i don't want to go somewhere where i'm not going to be myself that was the mentality that those girls had and that is the mentality that i see in the ones that tend to get into those high end colleges like if if you make your whole life about getting into a top school and everything you do is about that that becomes who you are and that's honestly not attractive to the colleges like they want someone who's unique there's millions of people on the planet whose character whose personality can be summed up as ivy league hopeful like there's so many people who've dedicated their entire school career to getting into ivy league schools who've made everything about getting into college who haven't actually done anything for themselves but have just done it to make their parents happy or because they think they need to get into a top school and at the end of the day there's not much else inside a lot of those people they haven't actually developed their own personality their personality is just ivy league simp like that's what it is so please don't be those people okay please i've worked with those people too and honestly most of them come off as arrogant most of them come off as way out of touch with reality and i can tell you right now they're i won't say names i don't want to make anyone feel bad but there are people like this that we're working with in score that just don't understand and i've tried to explain it to them and they don't get it like they think that they are god's gift to the earth and that they deserve to get into these top schools because of everything they've done and that's because in their minds that's why they did all these things i did all these things to get into college you must admit me they're not going to get in i know it now i i know they're not going to get into those top schools because they've lived their whole life just to get into a top school the irony the irony like trying hard is hard work is good being a total try hard is not actually like being real being honest telling you right now so i don't know that's what it is but uh yo shy if you get 1300 what's the next step the next step is apply early write your essays do all the things that i'm telling you to do in the channel and again you don't need a 1300 to get into college you can do all sorts of things so yeah i don't know thought i'd give you that little speech for you to think about it so anyway been a great time with all of you thank you so much for being here it's been a pleasure love streaming with all of you i'm gonna definitely do more of these in the next couple months as we work on other application parts and things so please come back and uh hopefully i'll see you soon all right have a good day