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Interested in hitting the SAT out of the park? Better take a few warm-up swings... This video will walk you through how to login, how to take and evaluate drills and practice exams, and how to navigate your way through Shmoop.com. Now go out there and knock the cover off this thing.
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Hi i'm dave symon off i'm the founder shmoop and
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i used to be a student too I am however
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now almost fully recovered from the experience The goal of
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this little video is to help you understand how to
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best use shmoop to improve your scores have a better
Full Transcript
- 00:13
life conquer the world and someday become president or not
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it's a bad gig really okay onto the meat in
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order to use shmoop here's what you got to do
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Sign into shmoop with your user name and password you
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probably created your account sometime in the not too distant
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past but if you fried your brain watching too much
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reality tv and can't remember whether your password is chocolate
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monkey or monkey chocolate still click on the log in
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in length instead of putting in your user name and
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password forty seven times hoping that somehow that will fix
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things just clicked the forgot password link Well fedex a
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new one over or better yet send one in the
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mail step two or do for your people in french
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class Click on a big surprise in drum roll this
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is where you do your training if you've had the
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good fortune to have access to more than one shmoop
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test prep guide unit You will see everything you own
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listed on my passes This is like a pass to
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a football game or disneyland but sorry in advance we
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are way less exciting than a good football game or
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disney Now alice you have officially falling down the shmoop
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rabbit hole and have arrived in a wonderland We like
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to call the dashboard intimidating Right Then our should look
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simple It s a t training were like call of
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duty Modern warfare This would be your h Q You
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have everything you need here Mental wait's brain weaponry and
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full rations of s a t know half So what
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do you do first How best to tackle the beast
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That is the well First enter the date of the
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you're planning on taking the number of days you have
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until the exam will then appear in the top right
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hand corner of the dashboard and we'll be your constant
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friendly reminder When you log in you only have twenty
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two more days until you face off with the get
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your game face on your dashboard looks pretty empty at
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this point it's time to fill it up first things
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first the diagnostic our diagnostic test is like getting a
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little less naked Check up the doctor and we'll let
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you know how healthy you are don't worry if you
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score on the low side that's what we're here for
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and whenever we figure out how to deliver a virtual
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lolly pops you'll be the first to know you should
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take the full diagnostic but for brevity of this training
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video will show you the math Click here then here
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sort of deal you will be timed and it will
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be scary never fear the diagnostics are shorter than the
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actual exams but they're definitely justus hard if not harder
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When you're going through the exam if you need to
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guess or come back to answer you can mark that
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question when you're done sitting in a flurry of eraser
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shavings and you scrap paper Or perhaps you've just worn
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down your keyboard keys a little click i'm done and
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this will bring up your diagnostic report Unlike many a
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book report you delivered in your youth this report is
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monumentally important It shows you which answers you got right
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Which you got wrong And even how you did overtime
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Cool The most important number here is your raw score
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and projected score And if you click here it shows
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you what skills you own and what skills you need
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to work on We're dropping more data than r two
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d two his math teacher which means you are now
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ready to tackle the topics You may save this report
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You can also send it to your teacher It's a
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review topics tap here you will find anything and everything
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you need to study for the start with the overview
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knowing exactly how the testes set up is just a
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cz important is knowing what's on the test This isn't
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the terms and conditions page on your most recent itunes
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upgrade So read it all the intro the do's and
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don'ts and the q and a section next move on
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to the real meat of the subjects If you had
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trouble figuring out how much math homework john forgot to
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dio you can hop right over to the algebra and
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numbers word problems section and get the complete low down
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This is perfect for topics that you covered years ago
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Geometry anyone be sure to check off when you've read
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a section for your own records When you feel comfortable
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with a topic drill it to access the drills head
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back to the dashboard and click drills I know that
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shocking the drill questions air set up like the practice
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exam but aren't time moved to any skill and drill
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until your heart's content you will always be able to
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look at answer explanations and save your work so that
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you can review past reels Once you have reviewed reviewed
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and reviewed some more then drilled up a storm you
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should be ready for a practice exam These air full
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length and the real deal feel free to sit down
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and take a full one that'll be a whopping three
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hours and forty five minutes so make sure you set
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your dvr to record that episode of american idol We
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love steven tyler around here or take sections to get
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your timing down Our practice is just like taking the
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actual exam and may even be a bit harder so
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get ready to let your brain sweat let's take a
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section together Now when you've finished you can see your
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results check answer explanations and save your work You could
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even send it to your teacher or mom or best
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friend or dog if he or she has an email
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address If you didn't deliver a gold medal winning performance
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don't worry there are five full length exams tons more
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drills and more review to be done As you get
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your study on take time to go back to your
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dashboard it'll show you how many shmoop once you've earned
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and how many topics drills and exams you've covered it
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will even show you how much you've improved or sucked
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worse just keeping it real here baby remember that diagnostic
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exam that was your baseline Now that you've done a
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lot of practice the dashboard will show you how much
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progress you're making hopefully and where you still need work
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Keep studying until you feel like you could take the
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with your eyes closed but don't do that Eyes open
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good eyes closed bad didn't mr me on he say
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that anyway uh then make sure to take the test
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with your eyes open Good advice We're here to help
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This is your brain This is your brain on schmuck
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