Common SAT Fears of International Students and How to Face them!!

Having a good attitude can help international SAT test-takers to the degree those good language skills. Many international students do not speak English as their mother tongue that can intimidate students competing with thousands of others in the TOEFL and SAT tests.

But do not be scared of these tests. Just follow How To Prepare For The SAT and you find a way to fight back.

Fear No. 1

Academic Readings with Field Knowledge-

Many Students in SAT preparation class used to say that they could get pale just looking at the long reading segment. Be prepared and do not be surprised if you have to read about the daily life of polar bears at the North Pole, bird migration and a history of medicine, an extract from a academic subjects or a literary novel.

These passages might try to fool you by incorporating professional field information that does not frequently appear in conversational English. The key to tackling your fear is to treat these passages like you are watching Discovery Channel or heading out on an adventure or try pretending you have an imperative responsibility to review someone else's writing.

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You may answer the questions wrong if you do not understand the key notions of the readings, so read them as if you are truly interested in the topic. Your attitude while reading these academic pieces is as vital as your language skills.

Having a true interest in what you understand will help you better memorize key details. You would realize that you do not require coming back to a passage frequently just to be able to answer a question.

Stay hungry about the information given in the readings and you would rock the answers. Reading more English newspapers will help you become recognizable with various fields of knowledge, because will reading more academic pieces and literature.

And remember, improving your reading skills in the long run will truly help you to enjoy this road.

Fear No. 2

Those Strange New Words -

Nothing can be more frustrating than reading a paragraph efficiently when suddenly, your flow is interrupted in the middle of a sentence by a word that you have never seen. Still more intimidating, the SAT asks you to guess the sense of those words.

You might get fed up of hearing people telling you to learn new words. They are not wrong. It would be better to learn as lots of new English words as you can before letting those unfamiliar words creep up during the test.

For me, the most effective method was to inspect new words every day with a friend who also studied for these exams.

We ready a word list for each day, put them in context and talk about the nuances of the words with each other. Words that I learned with my friends are ones that I remember the most.

Other than whether you study with flashcards or by writing words down on a piece of paper, imagine the new words in context is key to remembering them.

As well as the more you read, the more likely it is you will encounter the new words and understand how they are used in genuine English writing.