{"id":7142,"date":"2016-06-29t10:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-29t17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2016-11-12t03:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12t11:23:27","slug":"need-sat-exam-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"do i need sat exam coaching?"},"content":{"rendered":"

a lot of sat prep materials are\u00a0really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?\u00a0how useful are sat exam coaching services, and are they right for you?<\/p>\n

reasons you should seek sat exam coaching<\/h2>\n

sometimes self-study isn’t enough. maybe you’ve gone through a lot of prep materials from the college board<\/a> and services such as magoosh sat<\/a>, but your score just isn’t improving…. or you’re not making sufficient progress toward your target score.\u00a0in this situation, you may benefit from working with an sat coach.<\/p>\n

sat exam coaching with a tutor vs. sat coaching in a classroom<\/h2>\n

when you look for an sat exam coach, you have two basic options: one-on-one tutoring with an individual coach, or classes taken through an sat coaching company.<\/p>\n

i recommend an individual tutor in most cases. usually, students who struggle to master the sat on their own have specific learning needs in specific areas–a difficulty with math, a need to build vocabulary, problems with certain test strategies, and so on. sat coaching classes are, by necessity, “one size fits all.” unless you truly need to improve in every single skill and aspect of the sat exam, the\u00a0one-size-fits-all nature of sat classes will offer you a lot of coaching that you don’t need.<\/p>\n

still, there is one instance in which i do encourage students to consider sat classes rather than tutoring. when a student is a non-native english speaker, classes can be very beneficial. language learning happens very easily in group settings, and sat classes can really help esl students learn the language of the sat and its sections.<\/p>\n

reasons to\u00a0not<\/em> use sat exam coaching<\/h2>\n

never assume you need sat exam coaching before you’ve even done any sat prep on your own. many sat test-takers–probably the majority of them–prepare for the test primarily through self-study. so don’t consider tutoring unless you’ve already done a good deal of sat self-study and disliked the results.<\/p>\n

you should also hold off on getting an sat coach if you haven’t yet taken one of the sat’s official practice tests<\/a>. if you took a mock test from an unofficial source (a source other than the college board) and did poorly, this doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll do poorly on the real exam. the best way to know how you might do on test day is to take an exam made from real sat questions, sponsored by the makers of the test. if you do well on a college board practice test, you don’t need sat coaching. and if you do poorly on the real thing, try self-study first, then turn to a test prep coach if self-study isn’t cutting it. sat exam coaching should be an as-needed resource, not a primary form of test prep that you turn to right away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[24913],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\ndo i need sat exam coaching?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"do i need sat exam coaching?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"magoosh blog | high school\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshsat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshenglishlearning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"david recine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@magooshsat_act\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@magooshsat_act\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"david recine\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"article\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#article\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"david recine\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/fa2be5405a605e37f4199c90e2236768\"},\"headline\":\"do i need sat exam coaching?\",\"datepublished\":\"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00\",\"mainentityofpage\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\"},\"wordcount\":489,\"commentcount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization\"},\"articlesection\":[\"sat\"],\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"commentaction\",\"name\":\"comment\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"webpage\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\",\"name\":\"do i need sat exam coaching?\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#website\"},\"datepublished\":\"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00\",\"description\":\"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"readaction\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"breadcrumblist\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemlistelement\":[{\"@type\":\"listitem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"home\",\"item\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/\"},{\"@type\":\"listitem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"do i need sat exam coaching?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"website\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#website\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/\",\"name\":\"magoosh blog | high school\",\"description\":\"act, sat, college admissions, life\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization\"},\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"searchaction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"entrypoint\",\"urltemplate\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\"},{\"@type\":\"organization\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization\",\"name\":\"magoosh\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"imageobject\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/files\/2019\/02\/magoosh-logo-purple-60h.png\",\"contenturl\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/files\/2019\/02\/magoosh-logo-purple-60h.png\",\"width\":265,\"height\":60,\"caption\":\"magoosh\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameas\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshsat\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magooshsat_act\"]},{\"@type\":\"person\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/fa2be5405a605e37f4199c90e2236768\",\"name\":\"david recine\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"imageobject\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/c25f47bb3a8328890274eea1ac8ba62f\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb83f01789b236e00117edd9663c4568?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contenturl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb83f01789b236e00117edd9663c4568?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"david recine\"},\"description\":\"david is a test prep expert for magoosh toefl and ielts. additionally, he's helped students with toeic, pet, fce, bulats, eiken, sat, act, gre, and gmat. david has a bs and ma from the university of wisconsin-eau claire and an ma from the university of wisconsin-river falls.\",\"sameas\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshenglishlearning\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-recine\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/ucra3kqojlop7rywacyh2qew\"],\"knowsabout\":[\"toefl\",\"ielts\",\"toeic\",\"pet\",\"fce\",\"bulats\",\"eiken\",\"sat\",\"act\",\"gre\",\"gmat\"],\"knowslanguage\":[\"english\",\"italian\"],\"jobtitle\":\"content creator\",\"worksfor\":\"magoosh\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/author\/davidr\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ yoast seo premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"do i need sat exam coaching?","description":"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/","og_locale":"en_us","og_type":"article","og_title":"do i need sat exam coaching?","og_description":"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?","og_url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/","og_site_name":"magoosh blog | high school","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshsat\/","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshenglishlearning","article_published_time":"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00","author":"david recine","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@magooshsat_act","twitter_site":"@magooshsat_act","twitter_misc":{"written by":"david recine","est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"article","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#article","ispartof":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/"},"author":{"name":"david recine","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/fa2be5405a605e37f4199c90e2236768"},"headline":"do i need sat exam coaching?","datepublished":"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00","datemodified":"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00","mainentityofpage":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/"},"wordcount":489,"commentcount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization"},"articlesection":["sat"],"inlanguage":"en-us","potentialaction":[{"@type":"commentaction","name":"comment","target":["\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"webpage","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/","url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/","name":"do i need sat exam coaching?","ispartof":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#website"},"datepublished":"2016-06-29t17:03:51+00:00","datemodified":"2016-11-12t11:23:27+00:00","description":"a lot of sat prep materials are really designed for self-study. but can it help to get sat coaching too?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#breadcrumb"},"inlanguage":"en-us","potentialaction":[{"@type":"readaction","target":["\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/"]}]},{"@type":"breadcrumblist","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/need-sat-exam-coaching\/#breadcrumb","itemlistelement":[{"@type":"listitem","position":1,"name":"home","item":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/"},{"@type":"listitem","position":2,"name":"do i need sat exam coaching?"}]},{"@type":"website","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#website","url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/","name":"magoosh blog | high school","description":"act, sat, college admissions, life","publisher":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization"},"potentialaction":[{"@type":"searchaction","target":{"@type":"entrypoint","urltemplate":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inlanguage":"en-us"},{"@type":"organization","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#organization","name":"magoosh","url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/","logo":{"@type":"imageobject","inlanguage":"en-us","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/files\/2019\/02\/magoosh-logo-purple-60h.png","contenturl":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/files\/2019\/02\/magoosh-logo-purple-60h.png","width":265,"height":60,"caption":"magoosh"},"image":{"@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameas":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshsat\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/magooshsat_act"]},{"@type":"person","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/fa2be5405a605e37f4199c90e2236768","name":"david recine","image":{"@type":"imageobject","inlanguage":"en-us","@id":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/c25f47bb3a8328890274eea1ac8ba62f","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb83f01789b236e00117edd9663c4568?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contenturl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb83f01789b236e00117edd9663c4568?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"david recine"},"description":"david is a test prep expert for magoosh toefl and ielts. additionally, he's helped students with toeic, pet, fce, bulats, eiken, sat, act, gre, and gmat. david has a bs and ma from the university of wisconsin-eau claire and an ma from the university of wisconsin-river falls.","sameas":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshenglishlearning","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-recine\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/ucra3kqojlop7rywacyh2qew"],"knowsabout":["toefl","ielts","toeic","pet","fce","bulats","eiken","sat","act","gre","gmat"],"knowslanguage":["english","italian"],"jobtitle":"content creator","worksfor":"magoosh","url":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/author\/davidr\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":24913,"user_id":80,"is_guest":0,"slug":"davidr","display_name":"david recine","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb83f01789b236e00117edd9663c4568?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"recine","first_name":"david","description":"david is a test prep expert for magoosh toefl and ielts. additionally, he's helped students with toeic, pet, fce, bulats, eiken, sat, act, gre, and gmat.\r\n\r\ndavid has a bs from the university of wisconsin-eau claire and an ma from the university of wisconsin-river falls. his work at magoosh has been cited in<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2c50&q=recine+magoosh&btng=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> many scholarly articles<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/minds.wisconsin.edu\/handle\/1793\/65479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> his master's thesis<\/a> is featured on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingwithpictures.org\/2013\/09\/research-highlight-teaching-english-language-learners-with-comics\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> reading with pictures<\/a> website, and he's presented at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witesol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-witesol-program-final-10-28-14.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> witesol (link to pdf)<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/interoff\/docs\/nafsaregionv_2014conference\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> nafsa<\/a> conferences. david has taught k-12 esl in south korea as well as undergraduate english and mba-level business english at american universities. he has also trained english teachers in america, italy, and peru.\r\n\r\ncome join david and the magoosh team on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/ucra3kqojlop7rywacyh2qew\"> youtube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magooshenglishlearning\"> facebook<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/magooshenglish\/?hl=en\"> instagram<\/a>, or connect with him via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-recine\/\"> linkedin<\/a>!"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}