Extracurricular activities are significant to your college education because they help you apply what you learn in the classroom: the abstract theories and the philosophies that you learn to a real world example. When students are a student government officer, like a treasurer or a leader of a club, they learn some very important lessons about political science, about accounting, and about how to communicate with people.

 Those are all things that you read about in class, but they’re not necessarily things that you get a chance to practice. The other thing that’s actually significant about being involved in extracurricular activities is that after you graduate, you’ve gained a lot of practical experience on the job, or at least experienced with other people the practice of interacting, creating programs and budgets, and promoting your ideas. It’s important to think that there are a lot of people who mark off from college every year. Many of them will have majored in the same thing you did.

They will have achieved the same grades that you did. What do you do to make yourself stand out? It’s the extracurricular participation that you have that will be that value added on your recommence that will really make you stand out.

The top secret to preparing for any college entrance exams is to start your preparation several months in move forward. I would propose about four months before your first college test date. Slow and steady in fact does win the race. Now as part of your college test prep, you want to have two parts.

 You want to have a happy constituent to your preparation, in which you’re reviewing the rules of grammar, the vocabulary that you may need, and the basic math concepts that the test is going to test you on. In addition, you want to have a part that deals with test strategies.

How to use your time effectively, when to guess and when to leave questions blank. I think also as part of the college test training, you’ll want to take several timed practice tests, so that you’re used to sitting for an comprehensive period of time.

One common mistake that many students make while taking the SAT is that they miss-bubble the answer sheet. In other words, they make the common mistake of putting the answer for question number 5 into the oval for question number 4, and then the rest of their test is then off by one question which can be quite a disaster. You want to put your answers to each question in your test booklet as well as transferring it to your answer sheet.

Another common mistake that students make while taking the SAT is that they’re not well-known with the directions and the format of the test, so when the real test begins, they spend a lot of time interpretation the directions and trying to figure out what they’re supposed to do. So you want to at least prepare for the directions and the format. In addition, I would say students have trouble with the timing.

They get stuck on one or two questions which use up a lot of time. It’s actually important to move at a nice, steady pace so that you at least get to seem at every question on the test even if not of necessity answer every question. Also, what happens is that some student’s just panic if they hit a question or two that appear mainly difficult. I would say just relax. One third of the questions have to be easy.

 Another one third is going to be of midrange complexity. Only one third of the questions are what the test makers think to be very hard. If you hit a patch of hard questions, relax, skip to a section that might be easier, and then take it from there.