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Can I prepare on my own for the SAT?

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Laura Rheinauer
Associate Director, Educational Connections
www.ectutoring.com  
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A native of Allentown Pennsylvania, Laura Rheinauer received both her B.A. in History and M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Lehigh University.  Passionate about the field of education, she wrote her Master's thesis on efficacy issues surrounding after-school tutoring programs.  Throughout her undergrad and graduate years she worked as a reading tutor. After working in admissions at both Lehigh and Dickinson College, Laura now assists high school juniors and seniors in making their college application stand out to an admissions committee.  Laura moved down to VA to join Educational Connections as Associate Director to oversee the SSAT administration, test prep, and specialized reading programs.  Orton-Gillingham and Wilson trained, Laura helps place students with reading disabilities in appropriate multi-sensory programs with their assigned tutor.

Can I prepare on my own for the SAT?

 

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Host: Can I prepare on my own for the SAT?

Laura Rheinauer: You can definitely prepare on your own for the SAT. There are a lot of materials out there, practice problems, prep books. You can even get a bunch of friends together and quiz each other on vocabulary. My only warning with preparing on your own is the motivation factor. It's very easy if you are looking at the prep book and you are looking at American Idol, which one am I going to pick tonight. American Idol often, one is out. So when you prepare on your own just be careful. You have got to put yourself in a schedule say, Monday night from 7-8 O'clock I am going to work on math. It's easy when you have got a class to go to on Tuesday night or you have got someone ringing your doorbell saying, "It's time to work on the essay on Wednesday night.

" So you can definitely prepare on your own. Just give yourself good strategies and put yourself on a good schedule.

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