Parent to-do’s (Logistics)
Materials
Please order the following materials before our first meeting (please pick one of these two sets):
ACT
- How to Be a Brighter Student: The Craft of Developing Your Brilliance
- The Official ACT Prep Guide (latest edition)
- Kaplan: 8 Practice Tests for the ACT (latest edition)
- Princeton Review: Cracking the ACT with 6 Practice Tests (latest edition)
SAT
- How to Be a Brighter Student: The Craft of Developing Your Brilliance
- The Official (College Board) SAT Study Guide (latest edition)
- Kaplan: 8 Practice Tests for the SAT (latest edition)
- Princeton Review: 10 Practice Tests for the SAT (latest edition)
Things to bring/email
- The names of any additional ACT or SAT test-prep materials you already have, if any
- A brief summary of any major standardized test results to date, including all ACT / PSAT / SAT results
- The student’s completed Homework, as described in “Student to-do’s,” below
Student to-do’s (Homework)
Homework for our very first meeting
Please pick one of the following Mock Tests.
Then print and prepare your choice of the whole thing, or the math section only, depending on what help you would like us to provide.
All the while, please carefully and exactly follow the Homework process explained below. (Note: these tests are taken from the official books listed above. If you prefer to work directly out of the book, that’s fine; just do the first test from the official book for your test, ACT or SAT.)
Please also email/bring the answer key to your first meeting, but don’t read it or do anything with it other than to bring it, please:
Don’t read the rest of the book. Don’t skip the directions below.
Homework process
- Please prepare for the test by doing whatever review you think will be most helpful. Spend between 5 and 90 minutes on this, please. I trust your judgement.
- Please take the assigned test, timed per the instructions on the exam. Circle your answers right on the test.
- Please bring the test and all scratchwork to our meeting (for video sessions, please scan and email it, by following the instructions in the next section).
Scanning and emailing
Before any face-to-face video conference session, please email your tutor all work as multi-page, color PDFs.
Per our master checklist, please see wescarroll.com/faq for scanning instructions (see “Scanning work for video sessions”).