Please note that this information is for the WRITING questions only (Standard English Conventions and Expression of Ideas). READING (Information and Ideas and Craft and Structure) is listed as a separate course with a different recommended book. 

For private tutoring, students should take a Bluebook practice test prior to the first session. It's important that it be a PRACTICE test because I'll be able to see which questions the student got wrong and get a sense of which topics need the most work. (Official tests provide very little useful information for planning a tutoring program.)

Instruction consists of teacher-made instructional material including slide presentations with original questions modeled after the College Board's questions. Additionally, I highly recommend that students purchase this book for homework practice: The Critical Reader: The Complete Guide to SAT Grammar by Erica L. Meltzer. It has a lot of practice for each question type. The student will also use the College Board Question Bank for practice. 

In order to see a score increase, it's essential that students not only attend sessions but also complete homework, take practice tests, and, if necessary, study vocabulary outside of sessions. I offer Vocabulady's SAT Vocab Game Night classes on Outschool to help with this. They're fun and effective. 

Because the sessions are one-on-one, we'll cover whichever reading questions the practice test identifies as priorities (taking into account how frequently the question type appears on the test): Conventions of Standard English (punctuation, verbs, pronouns, possession, misplaced modifiers), Transitions, Rhetorical Synthesis.