{"id":2905,"date":"2012-02-22T02:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T08:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/wordpress\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:54:04","slug":"marine-military-academy-sat-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/2905\/marine-military-academy-sat-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"SAT Prep at Marine Military Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SAT Prep at MMA<\/h1>\n<p><em>Michele Pickens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three of the most common questions about the <b>SAT Prep<\/b> class by parents and students are \u201cWhat do you do in it?&#8221; ; \u201cWill it affect my\/his GPA?\u201d and \u201cDoes anyone ever fail?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SAT Prep<\/span> is a single semester pass\/fail \u2013 no bearing on\u00a0GPA &#8211; course that MMA provides as a service to seniors\u00a0 (first semester) and juniors\u00a0(second semester) who can work the class into their busy academic schedules.<\/p>\n<h2>Online Courses for SAT Prep<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2933\" title=\"satprep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sat prep\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Marine Military Academy subscribes to both the SAT and ACT Online Courses for the SAT Prep class, so there is no cost to parents for the programs which; if bought privately, which they can be, would be eighty dollars each for four months. The SAT course covers Critical Reading &#8211; sentences completion and comprehending and analyzing reading passages; Math \u2013 algebra, calculus, trigonometry, statistics; Writing (multiple choice) \u2013punctuation, grammar, usage; and a student-generated multiple paragraph essay.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above\u00a0academic areas, the ACT adds a Science section. The programs are designed to be self-contained so each student can work at his own pace and in the area(s) in which he needs the most practice. \u00a0A student fails SAT Prep the same way he fails a core course: he chooses not to do the assigned work.\u00a0 But few make that choice because it carries the same stigma as failing Study Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2936\" title=\"satprep2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sat prep\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satprep2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Michele (Mickie) Pickens has been teaching English at MMA for 34 years and added SAT Prep in the last six of those years.\u00a0 She has Secondary Certification and a Masters degree in English from Stephen F. Austin State University.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Learn More About\u00a0SAT Prep\u00a0at the Marine Military Academy<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/About-Us\/Contact-Us\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5618\" title=\"calltoaction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/calltoaction.jpg\" alt=\"SAT Prep\" width=\"289\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org<\/a> or request information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/MMA\/admissions\/admissions_form2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/MMA\/admissions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAT Prep at MMA Michele Pickens Three of the most common questions about the SAT Prep class by parents and students are \u201cWhat do you do in it?&#8221; ; \u201cWill it affect my\/his GPA?\u201d and \u201cDoes anyone ever fail?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SAT Prep is a single semester pass\/fail \u2013 no bearing on\u00a0GPA &#8211; course that MMA provides as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admissions-counseling","tag-academics-success"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}