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hi I'm Dave siminoff and i'm the founder of shmoop guess what i used to be a [Dave appears in office]

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student too i am now however almost fully recovered from the experience

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almost well the goal of this little video is to help you understand how to

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best use shmoop to improve your essay t-scores have a better life conquer the

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world and someday you become president horn or not it looks like a really bad [Man skidding in president's office]

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gig actually all right none of me in order to use shmoop here's what you

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gotta do signing too shmoop with your username and password you probably [username and password prompt appears for shmoop website]

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created your account sometime in the not-too-distant past but if you have

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fried your brain watching too much reality TV and can't remember whether [Boy sits down at desk]

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your password is chocolate monkey your monkey chocolate still click on the

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login link instead of putting in your username and password 47 times hoping

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that somehow that'll fix things just click the forgot password link will

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fedex a new one over or better yet send one email step 2 click on s80 this is [FedEx van arrives at a house]

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for Nia do your SAT training if you've had the good fortune to have access to

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more than one shmoop test prep guide unit you will see everything you own

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listed on my passes well this is like a pass to a football game or Disneyland

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sorry in advance we are way less exciting than a good football game or [Football player appears at Disneyland Castle]

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Disneyland if you're having trouble getting to this point you may need to

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join your teachers virtual classroom simply visit your profile page and type

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in your teacher's classroom code and you'll be all set now Alice you have [Alice appears at shmoop dashboard]

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officially fallen down the schmoop rabbit hole and have arrived in a

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wonderland we like to call the dashboard then our should look simple with s80

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training as with call of duty modern warfare this would be your HQ you have [Man with military gear on appears]

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everything you need here mental weights brain weaponry and full rations of SAT

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know how so what do you do first how best to tackle the beast that is the s80 [Man tackling SAT beast]

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well let's break down your dashboard a bit the scorecard shows your sh moines

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total drills attempted review topics covered and practice exams taken then

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there's the skills tab which tracks how you're trending within the entire exam [Cursor clicks on skills tab]

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prep basically every question within a test prep is tagged to a specific skill

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so you can use a skills report to identify your strengths and weaknesses

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if you're a world grand master of geometry you shouldn't need this

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and extra time on your angles but if geometry makes your head want to explode [Woman standing by board of angles]

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you can dig more and we'll bring you up to speed next there's a joints

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leaderboard and Geeks sorry where you can compare yourself with other shmoopers

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around the world and finally game day tips which has great advice on what [Game day tips appear on website]

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to do and what not to do trying out a new Thai place the night before the exam

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would be a good example of what not to do yeah trust us we've been there not [Man trying to get into toilet]

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pretty whenever you submit a practice exam or a drill question we not only

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display your score but we tell you what the correct answer is and why and we

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show you the skill that is tagged to that question well often you'll also see

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a video explanation of the problem too and you don't have to sit through 15

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minutes of trailers first either alright once you've got the ladle and it's time

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to get started first enter the date of the s80 you're planning on taking the

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number of days you have until the exam will then appear in the right-hand

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corner of the dashboard and will be your constant friendly reminder when you log

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in you only have twenty two more days until you face off with the SATs so you [Dashboard and SAT reminder]

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know get your game face on your dashboard looks pretty empty at this

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point so it's time to fill er up keep in mind that your dashboard will make

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recommendations of areas you might want to take a look at but in the end the

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path you create is up to you if there's something you're especially interested

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in it won't manhandle you into studying functions or splitting infinitives so

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breathe easy okay first things first the diagnostic our diagnostic test is like [Cursor clicks on diagnostic test link]

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getting a little checkup at the doctor and we'll let you know how s80 healthy

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you are don't worry if you score on the low side this time that's what we're [Girl sitting in exam hall]

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here for and whenever we figure out how to deliver virtual lollipops and you'll

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be the first to know you should take the full diagnostic but for brevity of this

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training video will show you the math click here then here sort of deal you

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know all right you'll be timed and it'll be scary never fear the Diagnostics are

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shorter than the actual exams but they are definitely just as hard if not

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harder if you do well in our Diagnostics you can rest easy s80 day when you're

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going through the exam if you need to guess or come back to answers later mark

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that question when you're done sitting in a flurry of eraser shavings and use [Diagnostic page loading with results]

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graph paper or perhaps you've just worn down your keyboard a little there click

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I'm done this will bring up your diagnostic report well unlike many a [Diagnostic report appears]

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book report you delivered in your youth this report is monumentally important it

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shows you which answers you got right which you got wrong and even how you did

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over time cool most important numbers here are your raw score and projected

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score if you click here it shows you which skills you own and what skills you

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need to work on we're dropping more data than r2d2's math teacher which means you [Man in room with R2D2]

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are now ready to tackle the topics you may save this report you can also send

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it to your teacher hit the review topics tab here you'll find anything and

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everything you need to study for the SAT start with the overview knowing exactly

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how the test is set up is just as important as knowing what's on the test

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this isn't the terms and conditions page on your most recent iTunes upgrade so [Man reading terms and conditions on macbook]

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actually read it the intro the do's and don'ts on the Q&A section next move on

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to the real meat of the subject you can hop right on over to the algebra and

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numbers word problems section and get the complete lowdown well this is

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perfect for topics you covered years ago geometry anyone be sure to check off [Man crying at board of angles]

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when you've read a section just for your own records when you feel comfortable

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with a topic drill it to access the drills head back to the dashboard and

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click a what do you click Oh drills yeah the drills questions are set up like the [Cursor clicks drills link]

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practice exam but aren't timed move to any skill and drill until your heart's

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content you'll always be able to look at answer explanations and save your work

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so that you can review past drills to take a bit of pain out of test prep

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we've included test breaks within the answer explanations as well as within

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review guides so you can give your brain a mini vacay now and then once you've [Person completing maths answer on paper]

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reviewed reviewed and reviewed some more then drilled up a storm you should be

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ready for a practice exam well these are full length and the real deal feel free

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to sit down and take a full one that'll be a whopping three hours and 45 minutes

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of your life you'll never get back so be sure you set your DVR to record that [The Voice judges appear]

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episode of the voice in aura just take sections to get your timing down our

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practice is just like taking the actual exam and may even be a bit harder so get

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to let your brain sweat let's take a section together now when you're

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finished you can see your results check answer explanations and save your work

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you can even send it to your teacher or mom or best friend or dog if he or she

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has an email address if you didn't deliver a gold medal winning performance [Person checks out end of exam report]

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don't worry there are four full-length exams tons more drills and more review

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to be done as you get your study on take time to go back to your dashboard it'll

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show you how many points you've earned not to mention where you stand on the

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schmansky leaderboard as well as how many topics drills and exams you've

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covered it will even show you how much you've improved or sucked worse you know [Person navigating skills page]

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just keeping it real here people remember that diagnostic exam well that

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was your baseline now that you've done a lot of practice your dashboard will show

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you how much progress you're making hopefully and where you still need to

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work if you're a little rough around the edges on the math side of things for

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example check out mass shack where you'll have access to an infinite number

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of problems in pre-algebra algebra geometry and more and where you can

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remind by mastering various topics also be sure to take a gander at our

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thousands of helpful videos covering everything from algebra english and [Maths video appears]

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grammar to literary analyses to well there are thousands of them so we'll

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stop there but go check them out keep studying until you feel like you could

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take the SAT with your eyes closed but don't do that eyes open good eyes closed [Man with eyes closed sitting the SAT]

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bad right didn't didn't mr. Miyagi say that or was that shmoop on shmoop off yeah

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well whatever good luck

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