Fall SAT Boot Camp in Livingston, NJ

Session-by-session schedule

Every date, in order, from the diagnostic through the final review. The last session lands two days before the October 3 exam.

Diagnostic
Thursday, Sept 10

Diagnostic pre-test (6:00 to 8:15 PM)
Week 1
Tuesday, Sept 15 & Thursday, Sept 17

Reading/Writing strategies & advanced math
Week 2
Tuesday, Sept 22 & Thursday, Sept 24

Advanced math & timing techniques
Week 3
Tuesday, Sept 29 & Thursday, Oct 1

College Board Bluebook strategies & final review

Diagnostic or practice exam No class

What the 3 weeks covers

Every student starts with a full-length diagnostic on a real digital SAT interface. That exam is the whole point of week zero: it tells your student and their teacher exactly which question types are costing points, so the six class sessions that follow are spent on the material that actually moves their score rather than on a generic syllabus.

Included in tuition

A full-length diagnostic pre-test on a real digital SAT interface, included in tuition
A score report that names the specific question types costing your student points
Six two-hour classes taught in person by certified New Jersey teachers
Reading and Writing strategy: Information and Ideas, Craft and Structure, Conventions
Math instruction through Advanced Math, plus graphing calculator fluency
Pacing and timing work for the adaptive, module-based digital format
College Board Bluebook practice, the same app students use on test day
Small classes, so a student can ask the question they are actually stuck on

Class details

Meets Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
3 weeks of instruction
Built for the Saturday, October 3, 2026 exam
160 S Livingston Ave, Livingston, NJ 07039
Small group, in person, taught by certified NJ teachers
No separate materials fee

Where students actually lose points

The digital SAT scores four domains per section. These are the ones that cost the most points in the diagnostics we run, and what we do about each in class.

Reading & Writing About 28% of the section

Craft and Structure

Where the points go

Words-in-context questions where two answers both look defensible. Students pick the word they know rather than the word the sentence is asking for, and lose points on questions they had the vocabulary to get.

What we do in class

We teach students to read the logical signal first (the semicolon, the "but," the "because") and predict the meaning before ever looking at the four choices. Deciding what the blank needs, then matching, turns a coin flip into a process.

Reading & Writing About 26% of the section

Standard English Conventions

Where the points go

Punctuation questions. Comma, semicolon, colon, or nothing at all, and most students are guessing based on where they would pause if they read it aloud.

What we do in class

A small set of rules generates most of these questions. We drill the sentence-boundary test until a student can tell independent from dependent clauses on sight, which is the single highest-yield grammar skill on the exam.

Reading & Writing About 20% of the section

Expression of Ideas

Where the points go

Transitions and rhetorical synthesis. Students choose the transition that sounds smooth instead of the one the logic requires, and treat the bulleted-notes questions as a reading-comprehension exercise rather than a goal-matching one.

What we do in class

For transitions, name the relationship between the two sentences before reading the options. For synthesis questions, read the stated goal first and use it as the filter. Both are mechanical once a student stops going by ear.

Math About 35% of the section

Advanced Math

Where the points go

Quadratics, exponentials, and function notation. This is the largest math domain and the one the harder second module leans on most, so a strong first module routes students straight into their weakest material.

What we do in class

We work the setups that repeat: interpreting a function in context, moving between forms of a quadratic, and reading what a question is really asking for. We also drill when the graphing calculator solves it faster than algebra does.

Math About 15% of the section

Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Where the points go

Multi-step percent, rate, and ratio problems, plus questions that hand you a table or a scatterplot. The math is rarely hard; the translation from English into an equation is where the points go.

What we do in class

A repeatable translation habit: label the quantities, write the relationship, then solve. We rehearse the percent-change and unit-rate setups that appear on nearly every form until the wording stops mattering.

Math About 15% of the section

Geometry and Trigonometry

Where the points go

The most commonly under-reviewed domain, usually because a student last saw the material in ninth or tenth grade. Circle relationships, similar triangles, and basic trig get skipped in self-study and then show up on test day.

What we do in class

We go back through the handful of relationships that generate most of these questions and make sure students know what is already printed on the reference sheet, so no one loses a point re-deriving a formula the test gave them.

Practice challenge

5 questions · about 2 minutes

Can your student spot the traps?

Five real-format digital SAT questions, with 30 seconds each. You will get a skill breakdown at the end, the same way our boot camp starts with a diagnostic before anyone opens a textbook.

0:30

1. If 3x + 7 = 25, what is the value of 6x + 5?

41
6
36
47

Answer: 41. Solve first: 3x = 18, so x = 6. The question asks for 6x + 5, not x. Substituting gives 36 + 5 = 41. The most common miss here is solving correctly and then answering 6, the value of x.
Skill: Algebra, covered in Week 1 of the boot camp.

2. For the function f(x) = 2x² − 8x + 3, what is the x-coordinate of the vertex?

−4
2
4
−2

Answer: 2. The vertex of a parabola sits at x = −b/(2a). Here a = 2 and b = −8, so x = 8/4 = 2. Watch the sign: b is negative, so −b is positive.
Skill: Advanced Math, covered in Week 2 of the boot camp.

3. A jacket is marked down 20% and now sells for $36. What was the original price?

$43.20
$40
$45
$46

Answer: $45. $36 is 80% of the original, so 0.8p = 36 and p = $45. The trap is $43.20, which is what you get by adding 20% to $36 instead of working backward from the discounted price.
Skill: Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, covered in Week 2 of the boot camp.

4. Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The results were considered ______; no other study had reported anything similar."

conventional
derivative
tentative
anomalous

Answer: anomalous. The semicolon signals that what follows explains the blank. "No other study had reported anything similar" means the result stood apart from everything else, which is what anomalous means. Conventional and derivative both mean roughly the opposite.
Skill: Craft and Structure, covered in Week 1 of the boot camp.

5. Which punctuation belongs in the blank? "The Bluebook app, which students use on test day ______ includes a built-in graphing calculator."

a semicolon
a comma
a colon
no punctuation

Answer: a comma. "which students use on test day" is a non-essential clause. It opens with a comma, so it has to close with one too. Punctuation like this travels in pairs, and a missing second comma is one of the most common Conventions errors on the digital SAT.
Skill: Standard English Conventions, covered in Week 3 of the boot camp.

Why families choose this boot camp

A real diagnostic first

Class time is finite. Starting with a full-length exam means we spend it on your student's actual gaps instead of a syllabus written for someone else.

Certified teachers, not scripts

Every class is taught by a certified New Jersey teacher who has taught this material in a classroom and can explain it a second way when the first way does not land.

Built for the digital SAT

The SAT is adaptive and module-based now. We teach the pacing, the built-in graphing calculator, and the Bluebook app your student will actually use on test day.

In person in Livingston

Classes meet at our Livingston center. Phones go away, questions get asked out loud, and students work alongside other students preparing for the same exam.

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Questions about this class

When does the Fall SAT Boot Camp meet?

The diagnostic pre-test is Thursday, September 10, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:15 PM. Classes then meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on September 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, and October 1, 2026.

Which SAT does this class prepare for?

The Saturday, October 3, 2026 digital SAT. The schedule is built backward from that date, so the final session lands two days before the exam.

How much does the Fall SAT Boot Camp cost?

Tuition is $780. That covers the full-length diagnostic pre-test, the score report, and all six class sessions. There is no separate materials fee.

Where are the classes held?

At the Teacher Tutors center at 160 S Livingston Ave, Livingston, NJ 07039. Every session is in person. This class is not offered online.

Is the diagnostic test really included?

Yes. The full-length diagnostic on September 10 is part of tuition, not an add-on. It is what the rest of the class is built around, so every enrolled student takes it.

How big are the classes?

Enrollment is capped to keep classes small enough that a teacher can work with students individually during practice. Call us for current availability in this session.

What if my student misses a session?

Contact us and we will work out how to cover the material, whether that is notes from the session or a short one-on-one to catch up before the next class.

Do you also offer one-on-one SAT tutoring?

Yes. Some students do the boot camp for structure and add private sessions for a specific weak area. Others work entirely one-on-one. We can talk through which fits your student.

Session-by-session schedule

What the 3 weeks covers

Where students actually lose points

Craft and Structure

Standard English Conventions

Expression of Ideas

Advanced Math

Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

Geometry and Trigonometry

Practice challenge

1. If 3x + 7 = 25, what is the value of 6x + 5?

2. For the function f(x) = 2x² − 8x + 3, what is the x-coordinate of the vertex?

3. A jacket is marked down 20% and now sells for $36. What was the original price?

4. Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The results were considered ______; no other study had reported anything similar."

5. Which punctuation belongs in the blank? "The Bluebook app, which students use on test day ______ includes a built-in graphing calculator."

Why families choose this boot camp

A real diagnostic first

Certified teachers, not scripts

Built for the digital SAT

In person in Livingston

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