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The Best SAT Advice
You Can Get
5 Strategies that Will
Get You 160+ Points
By Fred Zhang

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Intro
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2: Don’t Trust Imitators
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4: Master Your Mistakes…………………
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Copyright © 2016 by PrepScholar, Fred Zhang, Allen Cheng
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Hi - I’m Fred, and I’ve spent thousands of
hours working in SAT prep
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When you tackle the SAT the right
way, it’s actually one of the simplest parts
of college admissions
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If you’re like thousands of other students, you’re probably
confused about SAT prep
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You might lack the motivation or focus
to spend enough time on the SAT
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I completely understand
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By fixing these
problems, I’ve seen the immediate results on students’ SAT
scores
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That’s why I wrote this guide: to teach you how to
overcome the biggest SAT prep problems
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While you
don’t need to buy my program to get key insights from this
guide, my advice works best when combined with
PrepScholar
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This program is the brainchild of thousands of hours of SAT
training
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Visit to see why
PrepScholar is
ideal for you
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It creates a complete study plan
customized to each student, so you’ll always be working on
what you need to improve on
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It’s available to anyone with
an Internet connection, which means you can fit it into
your schedule at any time
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Regardless of whether you’re in the program, you’ll improve
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tons just by following the 5 strategies in this guide
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This guide will lift the cloud of doubt in your
mind about SAT prep, giving you action-oriented tips you
can start using right now to boost your SAT score
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In fact, if they
don’t work for you, I want you to email me because you’ll
be the first student I’ve ever worked with that didn’t benefit
from the advice in this guide
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I recommend you
read every page and avoid skimming to get the most out of
this guide
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If you have ANY
questions or feedback, no matter how small, always
feel free to email me at fred@prepscholar
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I
read and respond personally to all my emails
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You need to be motivated
to put in the necessary time and effort to study
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Now, a lot of parents try to create motivation by being
overbearing on their students
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This usually doesn’t work
too well
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Every internally motivated student I’ve
worked with spent far more time studying and got better
results, compared to students who were simply afraid of
being punished
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Here’s the big picture – the SAT is crucial for getting into
your dream college
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If you don’t believe
this, call up the admissions office of your dream school
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Despite this fact, students across the country spend much
less time studying for the SAT than on everything else in
their lives: homework, extracurriculars, sports, friends
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What does all of this mean?
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An hour of SAT studying will boost your
college admission chances far more than
anything else, if you’ve spent fewer than
40 hours studying thus far
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If you’ve
already put in 200 hours into your activity, an extra 40
hours in that activity isn’t going to do anything to raise
your chances of getting into college
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On the other hand, 40 hours spent on the SAT, studying in
the right way, will likely boost your score by hundreds of
points
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The key is, you have to study for the SAT in the right
way
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40 hours studying poorly won’t raise your
score, but 40 hours using proven techniques and strategies
definitely will
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PrepScholar
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So for big picture motivation, here’s what I want you to
do: picture your dream school
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Imagine getting the admissions packet in the mail,
setting the stage for the rest of your life
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Now that we’ve got the big picture in place, we need to
work on the little picture
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It’s too easy to crack out your
phone, message your friends, or start browsing Facebook
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By far, this single concept has worked over and
over again:

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Break up all of SAT prep into small, clearcut goals, and get rewards for meeting
those goals
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This principle works for every difficult goal in life
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It’s just too big a task
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With each pound lost, dieters see the
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results, and they feel motivated to keep going
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You need to
break up the giant SAT test into small, manageable parts
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Then you’ll build a habit of studying for the SAT
through internal motivation
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PrepScholar breaks up the giant task of SAT prep
into small learning goals, through skill-based lessons and
quizzes
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I’ve also found that students often need someone to help
them schedule their study sessions and to hold them
responsible for actually studying
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We’ll send you reminders and track each
time you come in
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Students who use PrepScholar have said over and over
again that it’s the best prep system they’ve ever used
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PrepScholar takes care of all of
that
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Some have even said studying with PrepScholar is
addictive
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If you want to learn more about how the program works,
just visit http://www
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com or email me at
fred@prepscholar
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I’d love to hear from you
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We’ve just covered a huge issue: motivation
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Read on
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Even worse, you can lower your
score
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From here on, we’re going to
discuss the major strategies to study effectively for the
SAT
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It’s unlike any test that you’ve
taken in school
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Questions will be worded in strange ways
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Why in the world would the College Board (makers
of the SAT) do this? To understand this, we have to
realize that the SAT is basically a college entrance exam
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If your SAT score is higher than another applicant’s, you’ll
have a better shot at getting in
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Period
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Imagine if, instead of
the SAT, college applications used a standardized exam
testing whether you could tie your shoes
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This would be useless for
colleges in their admissions decisions
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Here are a few specific examples:
• In the writing section, the SAT uses grammatically
correct English that you would never hear in normal
conversation
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In the math section, the SAT tests concepts
that most students know, but in very
convoluted ways
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Most geometry
classes will never teach you how to do this
specifically
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In school, usually every
interpretation is correct – it just depends on how you
argue it
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There is
only ever ONE correct answer for every single
question on the SAT
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How do we avoid this?

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Practice only with the most realistic SAT
questions you can get
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Questions and answers
are written in a very specific way
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By practicing with realistic SAT
questions, you’ll learn this style and understand all the
ways the SAT tries to trick you
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These
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prep books are typically written by people who have
mediocre experience in the SAT
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Textbook publishers want to cut costs and
quality, so they rely on their brand name to sell copies
without actually caring about educating the student
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Instead
of practicing with baseballs, you decided to train using a
wiffle ball, and you got really, really good at hitting wiffle
balls
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Come tryout day, the pitcher throws a
baseball at you, and it’s a total surprise
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SAT prep works the same way! Practicing on bad
questions will train you for the totally wrong thing
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First, we
incorporate 10 REAL practice tests published by the
College Board themselves
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PrepScholar integrates these into your study
schedule and tells you exactly the right times to take these
practice tests
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These experts have scored
in the top 1% of all students on the SAT (many
earning full scores), have graduated from top schools like
Harvard and MIT, and have earned multiple teaching
awards
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By training with PrepScholar, you’ll be
training with baseballs, not wiffle balls
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PrepScholar
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You’ll also see a few of our
instructors and learn about their backgrounds, so you’ll be
confident that you’re learning from the best
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Keep reading to learn more
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It’s true that PrepScholar has thousands of realistic
practice questions, but these would be ineffective without
the right organization
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PrepScholar does all
of that for you automatically, so you don’t even have
to think about it
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To do well on the SAT, you need to learn dozens of
separate skills
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Even within
algebra, you need to know how to solve equations, how
to deal with word problems, properties of functions, etc
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• Within writing, you need to master over a dozen
grammar rules, many of which you don’t learn formally
in school
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Most students who study for the SAT have an approach so
broad that it becomes completely ineffective
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” Because they think it’s an overall weakness, they
do whole SAT sections over and over again
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They’re not
focusing on training their specific weaknesses!
Let’s imagine that you’re trying to learn to swim
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For some reason, you think that
trying to learn all four at once is the best way to start
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You first face the
water and complete one stroke of freestyle
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You
flip back onto your stomach and try breaststroke
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Clearly this is ridiculous
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At the end, you’d master
all four strokes
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To get better at the math
section, you need to get focused practice on each
individual skill
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To get better
at geometry-triangle questions, you need to do a lot of
questions focused on triangles
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This is exactly how PrepScholar works
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PrepScholar then creates a study program specifically
customized for you
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This will train you for all the

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questions that will ever appear on the SAT for this skill (and
remember Strategy #2: you have to learn how the SAT
actually asks questions)
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You don’t want to do lots of questions without
clear organization
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You won’t
make good progress this way
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PrepScholar
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com with absolutely any
question you have
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I’ve heard
from so many students that learning these strategies and
using PrepScholar have completely changed their
perspective on how to prep for the SAT
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But after all, this is what the College Board wants – they
want people to prep for the SAT in the wrong way so that
people do poorly, which as we learned before is what is
useful for colleges
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Keep on reading to learn even
more
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This is
how PrepScholar will work for you when you start
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Many students focus too
much on quantity, not quality
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After all, they’ve seen hundreds of questions –
how can they NOT have mastered the SAT?

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They’re ignoring this critical rule:

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For every single question you get wrong,
you MUST understand WHY you got it
wrong, and you MUST know how to avoid
this mistake in the future
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When you miss a
question, you miss it for a reason
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If you don’t figure this out,
you’re going to make the same mistake, over and over and
over again
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You’re trying to learn to throw a football like a quarterback
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You get a little better – the ball goes farther – but
it’s still not quite right
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But you don’t know what to actually change
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You throw the ball once, and, using
his years of experience, he tells you exactly what you
need to improve
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Your arm needs to bend at this angle
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Putting all this into place,
you throw the next football better than you did after 100
practice tries
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You know now exactly what to avoid in
the future, thanks to understanding what mistakes you
were making
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OR, you can focus on
why you’re missing each specific question, and after
just 20 questions you’ll already have mastered your
mistakes
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PrepScholar gives a detailed explanation
for every question and builds in review
into every single lesson
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You’ll
also review every single question that you missed
and learn what mistakes you made
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That’s the advantage of building our own custom
technology – we create what’s most useful for you because
we’ve mastered the SAT prep process ourselves
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5: Customize to Yourself
Ignore one-size-fits-all

All of this is a lot take in
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Don’t worry,
PrepScholar is going to handle all of it so you can stop
worrying on what to learn and focus on actually
learning
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It hinges on the idea that you are a
truly unique person
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I mean this:

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You have different strengths and
weaknesses from other students
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This means you need
to prep in a way that’s customized to you
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You might have gotten better grades in math
than in English, or vice versa
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It’s unlikely that any other student has the exact
same skills as you
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Here’s the problem: besides PrepScholar, nearly every other
prep method out there treats students exactly the same
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Expensive classes from big-name companies put 20
students into the same classroom and drag everyone
through the same lectures
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See which of the following apply to you (likely all):
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If you feel you’re stronger in some skills than others,
you need to prep in a way that reflects your unique
abilities
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You need to use different strategies
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With PrepScholar, you’ll be able to address all of the
issues above
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We give you
different strategies depending on what your score target is
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We’ll also give you and your parent weekly progress reports
so you’ll always know you’re on the right track
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AND NOW WHAT?
There it is – my top 5 strategies designed to get you
160+ points on the SAT
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If you learned a lot from this guide, I’d really love if you
did a few things:
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Email it
to your friends, classmates, team-mates – anyone who
would benefit from it
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I want as many people as possible to benefit from
this
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Email me at Fred@PrepScholar
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I’m happy to answer ANY question and to
hear any feedback – even if you don’t end up using
PrepScholar
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Visit www
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com and learn more about
what I honestly believe is the best SAT prep program on
the planet
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Thanks for reading, and good luck!
-Fred



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