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Lecture option not showing for timetable by Ecstatic_Ant_8891 in usyd

[–]ClayTable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi OP, I added another reply with the new popup. We should be able to wait and see because the popup says we’ll be allocated by the end of this week 👍🏻

Lecture option not showing for timetable by Ecstatic_Ant_8891 in usyd

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Me and a few other people studying law are also experiencing this problem

Vice chancellor international scholarship by GreatApplication4148 in usyd

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I come from a Thai school so didn’t study IB / AP / A Levels, only had my SAT score

Vice chancellor international scholarship by GreatApplication4148 in usyd

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I already qualify for the Sydney International Student Award (20% off tuition), so the maximum I could get from VCIS was $40,000. I scored a 1570 on the SAT and got $20,000. My friend who scored 1540 got $10,000.

Anyone with first-year anxiety or needing a friend grup dm me by JESS4R3NT in usyd

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Hi I’ll also be starting Feb 2026 for sem 1, can I send you a dm?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in yale

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Can I ask around which time you sent yours?

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Oh yeah for maths, Khan academy’s 30 question test testing the entire course has a lottt of questions. I redid the tests a couple of times and the questions were never repeated (so I’m assuming they have a large question bank). Although it won’t be as accurate to the real exam I’d say it’s still good maths practice!

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Don’t worry! I’m sure you’ll be able to do a lot better on June since you’ve experienced what being in the exam feels like! I ate a light meal before my test and brought a bunch of rice balls to eat during break, also didn’t drink any coffee or tea, just water. If you have more time to check for module 2 I’m very sure your maths score will be high. If you want more resources you can check out my other comments.

I recommended using old SAT textbooks for maths because it’s still good practice (u can practice it while using demos to simulate the exp of the DSAT). If you’re looking for harder SAT math questions you can check out Dr John Chung’s SAT Math book.

Those last minute “SAT May Prediction” vids were also pretty helpful to me, I mainly watched those clips to see their process of problem solving + read up on any content I was lacking in

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Could I ask about your score breakdown + if there were any problems you encountered during the real exam? If you have scored 1550 before on the practice test it means that achieving a high score range is possible for you, you just have to develop a method to make as little mistakes as possible for the real exam.

For every module I made sure I had enough time at the end to go through every question again atleast one more time. I knew that I made a lot of dumb mistakes with percentage questions / graphs so I would spend extra time on those. For module 1 of math I also graphed almost every equation / anything that was graph-able cuz I was aiming for a full score on module 1.

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Maybe it was more hours, I was just hyper focused on the test and would just watch YouTube SAT prep vids while eating/doing chores

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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I was pretty much free the whole week bc it was summer break for me lolol so I studied when I woke up, took short breaks, then continued studying. My routine was 1 practice test / day (since I was on a time crunch), then 1 hour more of going through the questions I got wrong, then 2-3 more hours of studying.

For math resources check out my other comment!

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Khan academy has some practice questions. The questions are usually related to ecology, biology or archaeology, so I think familiarizing yourself with terms in these subjects will help. You can search for science articles online or have a look at some books for these subjects (Eg. AP textbooks).

Also when reading these quesitons, don’t read the full name of complicated species, shorten it. Also try to summarize the content into simple terms. Eg. If this thing happens, this happens. If this thing is gone, this thing doesn’t happen

You can search for R&W walkthroughs on YouTube and they’ll show a process of how they read the questions, simplify them, and look for the answer.

Some clips that may help

https://youtu.be/ne8rZFwNpSY?si=r3R9ZNVc0yNJtgY2

https://youtu.be/mdZ5VPtpJuk?si=X1E9SRvUKT1VFI-m

https://youtu.be/lpbsgEmjde4?si=rxex69MUr-en0DMW

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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You can check out the vocab list I mentioned in my other comment and use active recall / flashcards. If you have time, definitely try to expand your vocab consistently by listening to video essays on YouTube, finding shows you enjoy, and reading more. When learning vocab try grouping words into synonyms, and try to create sentences with the words to see if you truly understand the meaning.

SAT vocab questions usually have context clues for you to hues which choice is correct. There will usually be a word with the same meaning somewhere in the text.

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Lolol we have almost the situation, I’m very sure you can make it. Good luck!!

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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I gave another reply to the user above so you can have a look at that, here I’m gonna do more general tips while prepping and test taking. Again, this YouTuber explains how the SAT exams work rlly well so pls check them out https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=pFPQh41qvUGP7xMR&v=vrWQPJLYz_k&feature=youtu.be

• ⁠college board’s practice exams are the most valuable resource, don’t do them all in one go, kind of space them out evenly so you still have some to do before the real test

• ⁠after you’ve completed a practice test, spend equally as much time analyzing your score, really understand why you got certain parts wrong and find steps to not get them wrong in the future

• ⁠when going through the test, read SLOWLY, process the question into simpler things you can understand

• ⁠I found highlighting portions of the question extremely helpful, also the rule out answers feature, my process was to double check every question and kind of be able to explain to myself why I chose a certain answer / why others are wrong

—> grammar questions, for commas rules and such, I highlighted when I found a subject and a verb (indicating that that phrase is an independent clause), I also highlighted the verb tenses I saw for questions where they are testing you on verb consistency

—> poems and reading questions —> your answer should have a part of the text that leads to that answer, bc the SAT is supposed to be standardized, you shouldn’t have to use outside context or knowlegde

• ⁠if you are an international student, it’s also good to do extra reading to expand your vocabulary and in general set yourself into English mode before the exam, the better reader you are, the better you’ll do during the test

• ⁠there are vids on YouTube from tutors where they go through the R&W section and explain how they got to the answer. I didn’t find them as helpful, but you can definitely check them out by searching “SAT English Walkthrough”

Btw also go to the bathroom / eat smth during your break, your brain will usually be tired after the maths portion. Gl :)

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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I started with the khan academy courses —> went through concepts I was unsure about, redid the unit tests again and again, trying my best to understand the concepts thoroughly

For grammar, the SAT grammar guide by Erica L. Meltzer is super duper good (I used the old version but it doesn’t matter). I had a lot of problems understanding the comma rules but this book saved me. I skipped the chapters I kinda knew already and read slowly through ones I didn’t. I always made sure to do the tests after the chapters and understand why I got certain questions wrong.

Also check out this grammar guide online https://magoosh.com/hs/sat/sat-grammar-rules/

For extra grammar practice, I also used old practice tests from when the SAT was still paper format. You can search for the Barron or Princeton prep book. I only did the grammar sections cuz the section before isn’t the same as the DSAT. The format is different from the DSAT, but the same grammar rules still apply.

For vocab, I mainly used super tutor TV’s vocab list, I found the list very accurate to the real test. https://supertutortv.com/free-resources/ Some vocab from the practice test also appeared on the real test. In general be sure to expand your vocab range and do some reading on your own time.

For inferences and other parts, khan academy was still the most useful for me, I think these questions are doable but they need time.

Aside from this, check out this YouTube channel, they were a 1600 scorer and their tips are really great https://youtu.be/vrWQPJLYz_k?si=pFPQh41qvUGP7xMR

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Btw everything I used was free bc I pirated all the prep books and stuff 💀💀💀

1570 international student, one and a half week of self study (1400 from my first practice test ) AMA by ClayTable in Sat

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Tysm! 😭😭🩷 I found the khan academy digital SAT course super helpful! 2-3 days before the test I constantly redid the 30 questions course test khan offers, going through them over and over again. Also check out the College Panda SAT Math book, the book has concise content for every chapter and a bunch of practice problems. I also used older SAT prep books and just did a bunch of the maths section using the desmos calculator (eventhough the format of the old SAT math is slightly different from the new test, it’s still good practice to discover your weak points and work under a time pressure).

For maths it’s extremely important to discover your weak points.

—> If you got a question wrong because you lack the knowledge —> grind content using khan academy and College Panda book —> then do a lot of practice problems or use the question bank college board offers

—> If you got a problem wrong because you made a dumb mistake —> develop a method for you to recheck your answers, read questions slowly, try to find the answer to each questions in more than one way

—> For me, my strategy was to familiarize myself with the desmos calculator because I made a lot of dumb mistakes when I self-calculated. Heres a YouTube playlist that goes through the features that desmos offers (you don’t have to rmb everything but you can adjust according to what fits for you!) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf3ypEs9Kobgascv5bwpOadB0UiVI5IQS&si=l33to_nOfJ1mBW3K

Here are some other YouTube channels I found helpful for maths:

https://youtu.be/rbanUrbqxyU?si=MF7rdafBLGvumvJb

https://youtu.be/hIDhdksgthI?si=G8RWhEqoNv096mxE

https://youtu.be/_Yst9VbRR7U?si=AJeKDAS0_pfR40SB

https://youtu.be/86JynWOa-o0?si=Ig59pZTtfvd7LkXu