SAT

1. Premier Genie SAT Program
AN INTRODUCTION
www.premiergenie.com
info@premiergenie.com

2. About Us
We are a group of young and dynamic educators with a goal to impart high quality education
to the children of the MENA region and India operating from six locations globally (Dubai –
JLT, Motor City, Business Bay, Bur Dubai and KV, India – Kolkata).
We provide intensive and comprehensive educational coaching in the subjects of
• SAT
• PSAT
• IELTS and TOEFL
• GMAT and GRE
• Mathematics
• English Creative Writing & Spelling Bee
• Computer Science
• Robotics
• 3D Modelling & Printing
• STEM

3. Premier Genie’s Presence
We have successfully conducted our programs in over 10 premier
schools and non profit organizations across Dubai and Sharjah so far
and are looking forward for many more this term. On a weekly basis,
we are managing close to 1000 students across all our centers.

4. Our after school SAT offering
We are offering the following after school SAT
program in the school:
• SAT course
• 4 Proctored Practice Tests
• Continual Feedback
Grade Level – (grade 11 to 12)
Timings – TBD
Fee- AED 3500 for 8 weeks (32 hours)

5. Our after school PSAT offering
We are offering the following after school PSAT
program in the school:
• PSAT course
• On going Program
• Continual Feedback
Grade Level – (grade 8 to 10)
Timings – TBD
Fee – AED 90 per hour ( 2 hours per
week)

6. Instructor Credentials
• Experts in Standardized testing (GMAT 770 and GRE 327)
• Almost a decade of experience helping students ace the SAT, GMAT and
GRE
• Studied in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MBA from HEC,
Paris and IIM, Ahmedabad.
• Have created content for standardized test platforms in France and
USA

7. PSAT and SCAT
• Help build profile of students by organizing summer programs in Johns
Hopkins, Stanford and Northwestern.
• PSAT for Grades 8 to 10.
• SCAT for Grades 3 to 7 (only at the center).
• Our students scored 99 percentile in Mathematics and 95 percentile in
English and received high honors awards from Johns Hopkins for their
performance.

8. SAT Course
• Developed as a comprehensive SAT course, it is divided intro three parts
• Part 1: 8 classes of 2 hours (in 4 weeks) each introducing and explaining the following:
Extended reasoning, Literal Comprehension, Vocabulary in context, Numbers and operations,
Algebra and functions, Geometry and measurements, Data Analysis, statistics and
probability, Improving sentences, Identifying sentence errors and Improving paragraphs.
• Part 2: 4 Proctored full length SAT tests administered twice a week in the second month.
• Part 3: Grading, assessment, revision and feedback for each proctored test in the next 8
classes (following 4 weeks) The test will be discusses in class a day or two after it is
administered.

9. Maximize students’ SAT Score:
Achieving 2200+
• Our course is unique: tried and tested methods
• Timing, Strategy and Mindsets
• Vocabulary building
• Dealing with tricky math questions
• Solutions to reading difficulties
• Feedback for proctored tests

10. History of Success
Various Students with 2200+ scores
Score improvements of over 400
Admits to
• Duke
• Harvard
• Dartmouth
• Stanford
• Berkeley
• Emory
• USC
• Texas A&M

11. Unique Aspects of the Course
• Taught from the official college board guide, which will be provided to
each student
• Experienced instructor who is sensitive to student needs
• On campus, after school classes that are convenient for the student
• Assured learning and score improvement
• Feedback for each practice test taken and practice question homework

12. SAT 2015

13. New SAT Mar 2016

14. Changes to the SAT
• Maximum score 1600 instead of 2400
• Essay optional, 50 min, scored 2 to 8 (Analysis of an Argument)
• Only 4 options
• Reading section has 52 questions to be answered in 65 min
• Writing and Language section has 44 questions to be answered in 35 min
• Mathematics, NO CALCULATOR section has 20 questions to be answered in 25
min
(5 student produced responses)
• Mathematics section with calculator has 38 questions to be answered in 55
min
(8 student produced responses)
• No negative marks

15. Changes to Reading and, Writing and
Language Sections
• No Sentence Completion
• No Sentence Correction
• No Improve Sentences
• All questions based on passages
• 5 passages:
1 - US and world literature
2 – History/Social Science
2 – Science
• Improve sentences from passage
• Sentence Correction from passage
• Vocabulary in context
• Data present in some passages
• Many questions based on finding evidence

16. Changes to Mathematics Section
• More realistic wording
• Questions based on basic trigonometry (less than 5%)
• Increase in Algebra and Arithmetic questions
• Geometry questions are currently 25-30% but will be changes to only
10% of the questions
• The section without calculator will no have complicated calculations

17. Vocabulary in Context

18. Questions based on Data in passage

19. More realistic wording for Math Questions

20. Timing, Strategy and Mindset
• Smart hard work: Material and work
directed and specific to SAT preparation
• Setting up a feedback loop: Keeping an error
log and coming back to mistakes to learn
from them so that the same mistakes are
not committed again
• Working in time blocks: Practicing in a timed
environment so that the student is aware
that she is running against a clock
• Test taking strategies: Keeping time
consuming questions for later, pacing
yourself
• Test day strategies : Visiting the test center
the day before the exam, taking the breaks
and planning what to do during the breaks

21. • We encourage our students to actually
write down words and their meanings
instead of trying to learn them in their
minds
• We will Identify new words in passages
and sentences instead of memorizing
new words
• Contextual recognition is a great tactic
and will be taught as a strategy to
understand word meanings

22. • The hard part is how the SAT tries to trick students with questions: the wording or the
unorthodox, unusual ways of asking questions, perhaps, or confusing illustrations.
• We teach students to read the questions well and summarize the problem using their own
expressions or figures, to decode the problems clearly – then, the questions can be solved
applying techniques they’ve already learned.
• We train students to have the right attitude to face their fears and practice so that they ace
the SAT!

23. Reading difficulties and Solutions
Problems:
• Losing your place in the passage
• Losing focus
• Forgetting what you read
Solution:
Premier Genie’s Mind Map method: Taking notes
graphically for information flow

24. After every proctored test,
• The students’ results will be scored and
delivered
• Students’ mistakes on the test will be
discussed
• Improvements will be suggested both
in terms of content and strategy.
• Each student will be given an
individual feedback report after each
exam about how the student faired in
the test and what the areas of
improvement are

25. Our Goal
At Premier Genie, we continually look to improve our students’ performance. We want
to work long term with your school, training students on campus and delivering the best
quality training for the SAT. Given the opportunity, we will take student competence to
new highs making them not only comfortable with the syllabus but also training them in
strategies to ace the exam without getting nervous. We look forward to working with
you.