Standardized Testing
Strategies for Studying
Compass Guide to Admissions Testing is a great resource to help you understand the standardized testing landscape and create a plan.
Books with practice tests and strategies
Bootcamps (week-long, day before the test, etc.)
Summer camps offered at Trinity
Free online tutoring (see below for additional free resources like Khan Academy). Free student account at High Scores.
Paid tutoring
Study resources for the SAT
Khan Academy is a nonprofit tutoring platform started by Sal Khan (the founder of Khan Academy®), to research the impact of a free, online SAT® tutoring program run by volunteer peer tutors. Over the past year, the program has supported more than 10,000 students, and research suggests a 40–55 average point increase in overall SAT scores for boot camp versus non-boot camp participants.
The College Board question bank - You can choose from categories and levels of difficulty.
For help with the math section, check out this DESMOS webinar and follow The SAT math guy. Mindspire tutoring is seeing students raise their math scores from the low 600's to the mid to high 700's by knowing how to use Desmos. If used efficiently, Desmos can help test-takers solve at least 50% of the math questions without taking the time to manually solve them mathematically.
Study the SAT vocabulary list as well!
Learning Accommodations
Please contact Trinity's Learning Services department for more information if you would like to apply for accommodations for standardized testing. Please be sure you are aware of policies around SAT accommodations and ACT accommodations.