Secrets of the SAT

About Brian

Varsity Tutors’ Chief Academic Officer Brian Galvin has taught tens of thousands of SAT, ACT, GMAT, and GRE students around the world. The owner of 99th percentile scores on several standardized tests, he has been invited to teach test prep classes by admissions offices at top universities including UC-Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and Trinity College - Dublin, and his test prep YouTube videos have over 3 million views. He spent over a decade hiring, training, and learning from top test prep tutors at Veritas Prep, and loves imparting all of that wisdom to test takers in their quest to maximize their scores.

About the class

Mention the term “standardized test” and it’s likely to invoke feelings of intimidation, nervousness, and test anxiety. But one important habit of successful test takers is to break things down, and if you break down “standardized” what it really means is a test that’s been made standard, typical, the same. And that means that you can conquer them: every SAT trap answer, shortcut, clue, and strategy has appeared repeatedly in the past, making them predictable. With practice, you can equip yourself with the necessary tools to take full advantage of them. This class will help you do just that, arming you with proven SAT strategies to minimize time and mistakes and maximize confidence and scores.

You will learn:

•How to use answer choices as assets.

•How to pick up on clues the test writers leave in questions.

•How to avoid trap answers (and why they’re so tempting in the first place).

•Developing a critical eye for reading answer choices.

•Time-saving shortcut strategies