SAT-II Score and Mock on Thursday

SAT-II Scores are out. Check your status.

We are sitting in a FINAL Mock of SAT-I Test.
If you want to take part you have to inform through EITHER e-mail OR sms.
Please be physically fit before you attend tomorrow's MOCK session.
Timing - 8.15 am to 12.15 pm.

SAT-I Exam on 3rd December

I hope everyone is taking necessary preparation for the coming 3rd December resit.

I have little to add - except for the fact that excellent physical preparation will be the crucial element for a better performance. I also want you to access three previous blogposts - the first one on exam preparedness titled "Prelude to Saturday", and the other two written by the students on SAT-I Exam Reporting.

• http://modern-bengali-literature.blogspot.com/2011/09/preludes-to-day-on-saturday.html
• http://modern-bengali-literature.blogspot.com/2011/10/4-revealing-sat-i-exam-reports.html
• http://modern-bengali-literature.blogspot.com/2011/10/few-sat-i-test-reports.html

I am sure that this time everyone shall do her best.

On Reading

Just listen on YT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fY-Z5b5z3H0

The Month of December

Prepare adequately for the month of December. I hope well do you understand what is meant by Prepare! It means the following et al.

• Salubrious Diet
• Adequate Sleep at night [not later than 12 a.m.]
• Keep low social profile
• Thinking Creatively
• Write - Edit - Edit - Edit -Edit - Write
• Review all the Vocabulary from Stressbook.
• PLAN the week's work - or face consequences of unbelievable proportions.
• Do not take too much time in choosing Colleges/Universities

Changes to Our BLOG

Dear Students,

I have made some changes in our BLOG by adding some Gadgets. 

• You can now Search the entire BLOG for anything you want to recheck.
• There is a list of my favorite BLOGS. The first fours should also be of big help in your own reading.
• I have also widened the BLOG page so as to make it easier to read posts.

I hope you will return to this BLOG everyday and find something to put you into thinking. As before, I have decided to keep the BLOG free of any ad. 

I would appreciate it very much if you could suggest anything you want to see in the BLOG's post.

Finally, keep working on the December SAT-I preparation and Applications to the colleges.

Of Liberal Humanism - and Capitalism

"When capitalism slumps, one of its dominant ideological structures - liberal humanism is regularly deflected into an idealist brand of Marxism. When capitalism recovers, liberal humanism disentangles itself from its materialist trappings and resumes its proper role as the impotent conscience of bourgeois society."

"First-class Fellow travelling: The Poetry of W.H. Auden"
Terry Eagleton
Professor, University of Oxford, Manchester, Notre Dame, Yale

Monday SAT Schedule and Tasks

Dear All,

Today we have already covered the Vocabulary and Writing part. Tomorrow we shall only concentrate on Writing Essay for SAT-I. 

You will be given 4 topics and asked to write 4 essays. The class begins at 10 am.

For those who will meet me at 7.30 am has already been informed today. 

Application Work Remains

This time only application work remains to be addressed. I congratulate everyone who had gone through this very trying time of SAT preparation.

If anyone need to meet - please send me sms. That would be the fastest.

Last words On the Night of SAT-II

ALL Students Meet on Sunday Morning at 8.30

NO Meeting Tomorrow.

SAT-II Subject Tests MUST bring impressive scores.

Tomorrow there is going to be a performance of Rabindranath Tagore's "RAJA" in Shilpakala Academy at 6.15 pm.



Members of Application Processing should be there to watch the play. We formally start our work from the venue. All other ANGLOPHILES members are welcome to attend the performance.

Here is the link on FaceBook - http://www.facebook.com/events/117981241648158/

Standby Registration - College Board sent a mail to Mehruba

"To be considered for standby testing, please be present at the test center on test day before 7:30 a.m. Bring a completed Registration Form, sealed in its envelope, along with payment by check, money order, or credit card. Checks and money orders should be made payable to "The College Board." You will also be charged a $43.00 standby fee in addition to the regular fee for the test or tests you wish to take."

What I Deserve At This Stage

At this stage I at least deserve a mail from each one of our class telling me their level of preparation.

Putting a 'funny' tag on this post will be regarded an act of mediocrity.

I hope you respond in a responsible language.

[Too many mediocre people - much too many - I have just noticed that in 5 h 30 min this post has attracted 4 'funny' tags and only 5 e-mail reports appraising me of preparation level].

SAT-II Subject Test - Our Targets

Tomorrow THURSDAY we shall go for a 3 hour SAT-II Subject Test session that starts at 8.30 am.

Anything less than 750 in any of the Subject Tests would be disadvantageous.

SAT-I Review Schedule - Must be attended by ALL

November

20th - Word Review
21st - Full review of Writing
22nd - 4 SAT-I Essay
23rd - 1st MOCK [3rd, 5th, or 8th Princeton 11 Test]
24 - 2nd MOCK [Unknown Source]
25 - 3rd MOCK [3rd, 5th, or 8th Princeton 11 Test]
26 - 4ht MOCK [MH]
27 - Full range discussion of ALL Reading Item Topics
28, 29, 30 - Break

December
1st - MOCK

This 1st of December shall also formally conclude our SAT season of 2011. 

Khan Academy Online Tutorials

This website - made famous by our very Khan and made more famous by Bill Gates - contains quite a good number of lessons that go with the SAT-I and SAT-II Math Preparation. Please do take a look.

I especially liked the Geometry section. I just found out that there is also a section on Probability.

Here it is - http://www.khanacademy.org/

If there is any MORE good website that covers SAT syllabus - do let us know.

One very interesting blog created by a previous Anglophilite

Go and VISIT: http://arman-rk.blogspot.com/

Discussion of Maths II-C on Tuesday

We are having a 3 hour discussion on Maths IIC tomorrow morning starting from 8.30 am.


Apart from that I want everyone to be there so that you RE-enter the SAT's world again. 


I had a very fruitful discussion with the students who attended today's session. We have scheduled our SAT-I classes for the days between 20th Nov to 29 November. The session include Vocabulary review, Writing review, Reading Items review and 3 Mock Tests.


In the meantime EVERYONE keep me posted of her progress.

'Location' versus 'Passion' - FB messages exchanged on 13th November 2011

FROM ME
Hello Lamia. I hope you are fine and doing well. It would be an excellent thing to know what have been happening since we met last. I am in the same 'station of life' and has blissfully accepted my 'location.'


FROM LAMIA
Hello Sir,

Great to hear from you. I'm doing well, majoring in Astrophysics from Wellesley College. This year I'm in UK doing Junior Year Abroad, studying Physics at University of Oxford for the whole year. 

Apart from all these, life has been treating me well ... can't complain. Now that senior year is nearby, trying to realize what i want to do after college. Academics and research is what appealing me most, but I am not sure whether I have the necessary caliber or enough passion to last me a lifetime of chasing Einstein's fudge factor. 

Lamiya

Emergency Meeting on SAT-II Tomorrow Monday + A Quote

Dear All,

I want all November examinees to meet me tomorrow at 8.30 am - ideally it should be a two hour discussion on SAT-II progress and plan for our next classes regarding SAT-I after 19th November.

I WANT TO ARRANGE AT LEAST TWO COMPLETE MOCK TESTS FOR SAT-II.

It is strongly advised that we have a plenary meeting - therefore, participation of all is required.

Those who are giving SAT-I in November - Mehruba, Raad, Tahsina - shall sit with me for a discussion of Writing/Grammar strategies on Tuesday at 8.30 am.

A Quote I just came by

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”

Mathematical Atlas

Here is a website on a subject that Bertrand Russell once dubbed as: "The science one could go on practicing should one wake up one morning to find that the world has ceased to exist."

http://www.math-atlas.org/

If you have good suggestions on anything we covered as part of our SAT working - please share your link.

Aaquib - Ureka

We congratulate Aaquib for a great Ureka-style Discovery. Now the SAT students have finally an answer to Registration problem.

Mamun

Target University/College - 2011

This year we have decided to make the following Colleges/Univs our target institutions.

1. Vassar 
2. Pomona
3. Oberlin
4. Williams

All of these require good SAT-I and SAT-II score.

Whole Day Class Tomorrow

We will have class from 9 am to 4 pm tomorrow.

1. There will be NO Mock tomorrow. Students are requested to attend the day-long session. I want to include discussion of SAT-II subjects including Literature. 
2. Before attending you MUST send me email /  SMS about your plans. 
3. Those who are working on Applications with me are requested to bring their Laptops if possible.
4. Bring your own water - if you think that you will need it.
5. We will start on the MOCKs from Thursday.

Planning ahead - will be key to tomorrow's session - so, please do plan and let other know about it.

SATURDAY Schedule - Disciplined Body & Mind

Dear Students,

I will be in the class from 9 am till 2 pm. You are requested to find a time to meet me regarding SAT-II and SAT-I preparation and Admission Advice.

Tomorrow will be our last class before EID. I want to resume classes from coming Thursday. I just want to remind everyone that getting a 2000 in SAT-I is absolutely an easy task - only one thing you will require - a disciplined BODY & MIND during the final WEEK of preparation.

Eid Mubarak to everyone. 

Application Essay - Tone and Voice

In response to one of the several essays I have received in the last few days I came up with the following observations.

1. Whole essay is mostly about your academic achievements and your undergrad subject choice.

2. Personal goals are little elucidated.

3. I do not know if the length of the essay is within the word - limit.

4. The language is stiff with no variation of tone and voice.

After this response the writer advised me the following:

Could you elaborate a bit on the fourth point that you have mentioned? How do I bring in more variety of tones and voice?

Here is my response to the above query:

The very question of voice is EXTREMELY subjective. It may appear to one that there is not enough voice. But in my original response (see no 4 above), I also included the issue of VARIETY of TONE and VOICE.

You see - I am talking about a VARIETY that depends on exactly the kind of College/Univ you are applying to. In  case of TUFTS university we took up a tone that is DARING to say the least. For our voice we decided to present a semi-serious and semi-ironic and self-effacing TONE that was spread across ALL the essays we created. 

Again, the above suggestion is MERELY Advisorial and should NOT be taken as a Final Judgement on this very crucial issue.

TOEFL and SAT Class/Mock

We are going to resume our SAT class from tomorrow. It is better that we start MOCK at 8.15.

For TOEFL - everyone is strongly advised to to take the exam after the SAT-I December take. Those who are thinking of completing their CSS profile are advised not to proceed further and rather concentrate on SAT-II, SAT-I and Application ESSAYS.

Any further query shall be posted through BLOG unless it is a personal case.

A few words - such things you will need very soon

As part of your articulation process you will need to be able to construct sequence of words like the one below.

Our hope is that these books will, by turns, instruct,
intrigue, embolden, encourage and delight.

Speaking of 'Reading Marx" - General Editor's Preface

The FIRST application - ED to TUFTS - Leaves Dhaka Today

The first application for this season leaves Dhaka through FEDEX. The pack weighed about 700gr and cost about 3000 taka. The cost of sending packs can be reduced if you send it through OCS.

As per requirements are concerned - the application included the following PAPERS written by the student.

1. Significant ECA experience essay
2. Common Application Essay - Topic of your own choice
3. TUFTS Supplementary essays - 
• Let your life speak
• Why TUFTS
• A variation of the PS 
4. Apart from these all other School Documents such as Teacher Reco, Counselor Reco, SAT Score Sheet, Art Portfolio, O Level and A Level Results - accompanied the application.
5. The application will also include a tailor-made Video - the script is in progress and the shooting will probably take place sometime during the Eid vacation.

The working hour invested in the preparation of above items in the last 3 weeks is - 50 hours.

All ANGLOPHILES applicants are being requested to work full scale on the applications. We shall resume our classes from TOMORROW. I am very slowly recovering from my leg injury. But I want to be here the whole day.

Tomorrow timing - 8.30 am - 12.00 am

We could have a SAT-II Mock on Thursday starting from 3.00 PM.

You are requested to send your opinion on this schedule.