When you learn a new sport, you work on “fundamentals”, don’t you?

In football, that’s blocking and tackling, throwing, catching, kicking.

In tennis:  forehand, backhand, serve, volley, smash, drop shot.

Those are all important techniques—essential to playing your new sport well.  But with all the best technique in the world, you can’t play effectively unless you understand the STRATEGY behind your new sport.

In football and tennis, which are obviously both sports that involve a ball, the simplest way to sum up their strategies is:  CONTROL THE BALL.

The team or individual that best controls the ball usually wins, right?

The same goes for the SAT and the ACT.  There is a basic strategy behind each test that you have to know.

You can sum up the strategy on the SAT this way:

There are only easy questions that look easy and easy questions that look hard, and the ones that look hard are trapped with silly little gotcha tricks, so learn where those are and what they are.

The ACT strategy is:

There are only easy questions that look easy and easy questions that look hard, so make sure you approach all the questions in the simplest possible way, and then go as fast as you can!

 How easy is that?

Very.  You just have to practice it so that you can do it quickly and accurately under the pressure of the real test.   Just as you practice your strategy under the pressure of real games and matches in football and tennis—or the sport or endeavor of your choice.