Digital SAT / PSAT Program
Friske Test Prep Digital SAT / PSAT Program
Our Digital SAT / PSAT program provides 40 hours of the highest quality in-person test prep tailored to the demands of both the Digital SAT and Digital PSAT for students in or entering 11th and 12th grade. Prepare for both exams at the same time with this program! Personal learning plans, customized and flexible schedules, more practice than a student could ask for, and higher scores await our students with this comprehensive program designed by test prep experts, backed by the latest in education research, and crafted to support any and every student’s individual needs and goals. See the Friske Test Prep difference below!
Introductory Consultation
Every student is unique with their own schedules and goals. Our programs are uniquely customizable to accommodate even the most specific goals. Prior to every program, we offer a free 30 minute in-person or phone consultation to help our students and their families plan for the future. Choose the right exam, pick a test date, and discuss future goals during this meeting. Ready to get started?
Personalized Start Dates
Because our programs are customized and all students work on their own personal learning plans, our start dates are flexible to adapt to every student’s busy schedule. Do you have a specific start date in mind? Perfect! We can’t wait to get started! Not sure when is the best time to start? No problem! We can help you determine when to start depending on the specific test date.
Flexible Scheduling and Rescheduling
We do not have specific class dates and times because we do not lecture to large groups of students! Instead, our students work individually on their customized learning plans. Our process allows our students flexibility in dates and times for their sessions. We also offer unlimited rescheduling with 24 hour notice during a student’s program time frame providing our students the most flexible schedule possible for their test prep program.
Small Group Sessions
We keep our small group sessions small, with no more than 5 students in any given session, so that our students get as much personalized attention and teaching as possible. We do not lecture to large groups of students in a boardroom or classroom setting because individualized teaching is more effective and efficient in raising standardized test scores.
Diagnostic Testing
Each of our programs begins with a full length diagnostic test during the first 1 - 2 sessions of the program. This exam serves as the starting point for each student’s test prep journey and allows us to customize and personalize a student’s test prep program based on the results of the exam. The diagnostic test also provides us data to help guide a student’s home learning plan so that each student is focusing on the material necessary to improve their scores.
Diagnostic Test Corrections
We don’t know what we don’t know. Therefore, we must make an effort to understand what we don’t know in order to improve. Educational research indicates that high quality test corrections with review of missed questions is the most important part of the test prep process to raise scores. Missed question review is also the component of test prep that most students tend to skip over or minimize when attempting to prepare for these exams independently. Why? Because reviewing mistakes can be an uncomfortable process at times. We provide accountability with one-on-one test correction review to ensure that our students learn from mistakes and improve their understanding of difficult question types and content.
Personal Learning Plans
Each student receives personalized learning plans based on in-depth statistical analysis of their performance on diagnostic testing and subsequent practice tests. Our proprietary statistical analysis provides a level of detail that goes beyond what publicly available to a student from CollegeBoard. Each learning plan is unique to every student and provides a road map that a student follows during their program. A student works on their learning plan during their in-person session time independent of other students and at their own pace allowing for an unparalleled degree of personalization in each student’s test prep experience.
Identification of Strengths and Areas for Growth
Each student comes to our program with different strengths and areas that need improvement. Throughout the course of the program, these strengths and weaknesses may change as students gain confidence in topics they previously perceived themselves as less strong. Therefore, we continually evaluate each student’s test performance to improve areas in need of growth while reinforcing areas of strength. This process allows students to elevate their score by improving areas in need of growth while maintaining a high level of performance in topics in which a student excels.
Getting to Know the Digital SAT and PSAT
Every student receives a thorough overview of the Digital SAT and PSAT so that they know exactly what to expect on test day. We review the overall structure of the exam, the adaptive design of the Digital SAT and PSAT, the timing and format of each section, specific question types within each section, and more ensuring that each of our students has an in-depth understanding of the exam.
Exam Psychology
Throughout the course of each program, we discuss exam psychology specific to the Digital SAT and PSAT. We cover testing anxiety, emotional reactivity to difficult questions, challenges related to adaptive testing, and more so that each of our students is prepared on test day to combat the emotional challenges that can significantly impact test scores.
Reading / Writing Section Strategy and Practice
Our comprehensive Digital SAT / PSAT program takes an in-depth look at every question type in the Reading / Writing section of the SAT and PSAT. We discuss vocabulary, text structure and author purpose, main idea and detail, evidence, grammar, transition, and note consolidation questions so that each student has a complete understanding of the fundamental knowledge and effective test strategies necessary to perform their best on this challenging but coachable Digital SAT and PSAT section. Many of our students raise their section scores by 100 points with the Friske Test Prep Grammar Crash Course alone!
Math Section Strategy and Practice
Our comprehensive Digital SAT / PSAT program covers all of the fundamental pre-Algebra, Algebra I and II, and Geometry topics tested on the exam. We also discuss proven test strategies to help students cope with difficult math questions and review the best times to use the calculator during the Math section of the exam so that our students walk into their exam with the confidence necessary to elevate their Math section score.
Practice Testing
Practice testing is vital to improving standardized test scores by building confidence, increasing familiarity with the exam, and decreasing testing anxiety. Practice testing also allows a student to practice as if they are performing on their official exam. Therefore, we provide our students with a diagnostic Digital SAT and up to six additional practice exams depending on the students pace through their personal learning plan. Our practice exams also provide individualized student performance data that aids in creating and updating each student’s personalized learning plan.
Unlimited Home Practice
Have we mentioned how important practice is to increasing test scores?!? To support our students test prep efforts, we provide UNLIMITED home practice! What does this mean? Each of our students is given a home practice book during their first session and a personalized guide to help direct them through the book. When a student finishes their first book, they can bring the completed home practice book in and receive another new and different book! Our students’ success is our success, so we do everything we can to help support our students both during in-person test prep sessions and at home.
Scheduling Details
The Digital SAT / PSAT program includes all of the services noted above within 40 hours total of in-person instruction. Each student is typically scheduled for two 2 hour sessions per week for 10 weeks though scheduling is flexible. We can compress the typical schedule to accommodate any test date. Program start dates are also flexible to provide our students with the most adaptable test prep experience possible. Not sure when to begin? Contact us and let us help guide you through the decision making process!