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7 guides beyond the syllabus: strategy, test day, scoring and section guide.
Strategy
What 34+ and 36 require in each section (about 1–2 misses each), the error-log loop, pacing targets per test, whether to add Science and Writing, and a 10-week plan with checkpoint scores.
Test day
Admission ticket and ID, permitted and prohibited calculators, online tools versus paper booklets, the order of tests and breaks, staying for Science and Writing, and a calm-execution checklist.
Scoring
How raw scores become 1–36 scale scores, Composite rounding, STEM and ELA scores, Writing domain scoring on 2–12, what each miss costs near 36, percentiles and superscoring.
Section guide
A 35-minute pacing plan (about 5 minutes per long essay), the high-frequency grammar rules that decide Conventions items, reading every question stem, and the NO CHANGE and ‘shortest answer’ traps.
Section guide
Pacing 45 questions in 50 minutes, banking time early for the hard final third, calculator versus by-hand decisions, the formulas you must memorize (there is no formula sheet), and backsolving with four choices.
Section guide
Ten minutes per passage unit, how to read literary narrative versus informational passages, paired-passage and VQI tactics, and eliminating extreme, out-of-scope and wrong-part answers.
Section guide
Who needs Science (and the STEM score) and Writing, a 40-minute plan for seven science passages, Conflicting Viewpoints tactics, and a reusable structure for a 10–12 Writing essay.