SAT 2-Second Shortcuts ─ The Insider's Guide to Outsmart the SAT

In SAT 2-Second Shortcuts, Dr. Jay presents the first pattern-recognition strategy that gives students the power to identify the best answers to an SAT question in two seconds. Each pattern immediately focuses student attention on the most likely answers to a Reading, Writing, or Math question. No strategy works faster to shortcut the process of finding the correct answer. All students have to do to find more answers in less time, and increase their SAT score, is follow Dr. Jay’s Golden Rule: Always take two seconds to look for a pattern in the choices that will give you a shortcut to the answer. With Dr. Jay's method it is now possible for students to quickly add 200 points to their SAT score—without studying! Only minutes of scanning practice is required to master a shortcut and start using it to get instant results on the New SAT.

Carol Jay Stratoudakis, Ph.D., known as Dr. Jay, has four decades of experience in educational assessment at the national, state, and post-secondary, as well as in  several school districts where she analyzed student performance on standardized tests. She conducted her dissertation research through the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University where she was recognized as an expert reading clinician in detecting error patterns in student performance on diagnostic tests. Dr. Jay served as a national policy analyst at the National Institute of Education (NIE) and later as a staff consultant to the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), a joint taskforce between the White House and the National Governors’ Association which developed the first national standards in K-12 Education, the framework for the Common Core Standards. Dr. Jay also worked with the Connecticut State Department of Education on the development of standards to assess teachers and worked at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education on the development of standards to assess school administrators.