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Vancouver SAT Courses

Our SAT courses have been uniquely designed to build key skills and effective strategies to crack the SAT. All of our sessions are taught by highly qualified instructors who have scored in the 97th percentile on the SAT or higher and are experts on preparing students for the exam.

Each of our courses is carefully designed, taking into account all of the best instructional and practice materials available. Our classes balance interactive lecture, cooperative discussion, and realistic mock test situations. We offer the following classes:

Intensive Course ($1650) | Regular Course ($1200) | Crash Course ($900)

 

Schedule

Location

Ivy Global Vancouver Ivy Global Office Suite 262 3665 Kingsway Vancouver, BC V5R 5W2 Map It

Our Advantage

Ivy Global	Other SAT Prep Programs
Individualized Tailored to the unique needs of individual students	Inflexible Fail to recognize individual students’ strengths and weaknesses
Top quality instructors Talented young teachers handpicked from the best schools	Unreliable teacher quality Weak instructors hired through an undiscerning process
Only the best explanatory texts Chosen from the full range of SAT materials available	Limited instructional tools Ineffective strategies taken from a single source
Real practice tests Actual practice questions and mock exams from the writers of the SAT	Inauthentic test questions Unapproved, untested questions written by companies not affiliated with the SAT

 

Course Outline

Our SAT prep courses are designed to help students maximize their scores on the SAT Test. Our courses will cover the following topics:

• Critical Reading
  • Sentence completion
  • Reading comprehension (short and long passages)
  • Effective vocabulary building, using a proven combination of the most effective materials available
  • Strategies to maximize both accuracy and speed
    
• Writing
  • Improving sentences
  • Identifying sentence errors
  • Improving paragraphs
  • Comprehensive review of grammatical concepts
  • The most common SAT Writing question types
  • The Bank and Rubic method: individualized guidance for the 25-minute essay
    
• Mathematics
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Grid-in questions
  • Comprehensive review of mathematical concepts
  • Shortcuts and strategies: how to arrive at the correct answer as quickly as possible
  • Personalized guidance based on each student's current test performance and ultimate goals
  • Extensive additional practice questions provided

What's Included

• Full diagnostic tests, with detailed score reporting and essay feedback
• Proctored practice tests
• Customized lectures and group activities
• Concept reinforcement and test-taking strategies
• SAT student manuals
• Daily homework and study schedule
• Roadmap for SAT prep
• Vocabulary building strategy

Class Descriptions

Intensive Course
(60 Hours)

Our three-week summer course provides intensive and thorough coverage of both substantive and strategic SAT preparation. Students are given ample opportunities to practice their new knowledge. Daily homework assignments are given, with flexible options provided to students with less free time. There are typically 5-10 students per class. We offer classes for:

Grades 8-10

These are mostly younger students looking for a head start on the SAT. Students learn basic SAT test-taking techniques and develop their understanding of the test material. Those who begin preparation for the SAT at an early age very often prove more successful than those who begin preparing later, and thus this class will no doubt prove valuable to young students aiming for impressive SAT results.

Grades 11-12

Most of the older high school students have already been introduced to the majority of concepts tested on the SAT. However, they require guidance in order to apply their high school knowledge to the standardized test format. Classes will focus on developing test-taking strategies while also reinforcing concepts in mathematics, critical reading, and writing. In addition, the course offers students frequent opportunities to practice under test conditions.

Regular Course
(32 hours)

There are two formats to the eight-week course: (a) 4-hour classes every Saturday; and (b) 2-hour classes twice weekly. The course seeks to provide a general overview of both test content and strategy. In order to maximize the effectiveness of class time, students are given homework assignments at the end of each class. Additional optional homework assignments are also provided.

Crash Course
(24 hours)

The Crash Course provides a condensed overview of test content and strategy. The class will review the math, reading, and grammar concepts tested by the SAT. Students will also be introduced to the most effective test-taking methods. Guided by the instructor, students will discuss and develop longer-term study schedules to structure their test preparation after the end of the course.

Custom Course

If you have a group who is interested in SAT prep, we offer a fully customized program that is carefully designed to suit the needs of your students. Please call for more information. If you do not see a class that fits your schedule, please see information about our private SAT tutoring.

SAT Course Material

 

The Official SAT Study Guide by College Board This book includes 10 official practice tests from the College Board, the maker of the SATs. It is the only guide on the market that has real SAT questions and is, in our opinion, the best guide with which to practice and prepare for the test. Other companies claim to have their own proprietary prep material. This is purely a marketing ploy as those questions have neither been rigorously tested nor designed by the official test makers. All students will receive a personal copy of this guide.

 

Barron's SAT Barron's guide provides a thorough, straightforward overview of the concepts tested for each of the three sections of the SAT. While we rely on practice tests from the true testmakers, we supplement those test questions with comprehensive review of tricky test material. Each student will receive his or her own copy of this text.

 

SAT Study Guide by Ivy Global Our study guide, developed by our most experienced instructors, provides valuable supplemental SAT preparation material including effective strategies and sample questions for every section of the SAT. Math and writing skills sections are thoroughly reviewed. It also provides a complete vocabulary list, including basic and challenging word lists, and the 500 Most Important Words. Every student will receive a copy of the guide.

In addition to the materials above, the instructors will provide customized materials for each course to provide advanced tips and strategies for each section of the SAT.

Our Program (FAQ)

See Frequently Asked Questions about our SAT program.

 

US College Seminars

These free informational seminars will provide an overview of the entire US College Admissions process for students in Canada. For more information, click here.

 

Registration and Cancellation Policy

Full payment must be received within 5 business days of your online registration. We accept credit card payment online or a cheque payable to "Ivy Global".

We do offer partial refunds for cancellations made at least 1 week prior to the start of classes.

• 75% of amount will be refunded for cancellations made at least 1 month before official class start date.
• 50% of amount will be refunded for cancellations made less than a month before and at least a week in advance of official class start date.
• There is no refund for cancellations made within 1 week of the official class start date.
• A student may transfer their registration to another class with at least 1 week notice.

 

Class Cancellation

On rare occasions we need to cancel a course, either because of unpredictable circumstances such as an instructor having an emergency personal situation or a course location becoming unavailable in the last minute. We run classes even with low registration numbers. Less than 2% of our scheduled classes are cancelled. Students will be notified immediately in the event that this happens and can withdraw from the course with a full refund, enroll in another course that has space available, or enroll in private tutoring.