I have tutored students in SAT prep for years in person and online. The SAT consists of a finite number of skills and disciplines, all of them coachable. The SAT is not an intelligence test, it is a skills test. For example, an essential math skill heavily tested is linear equations. They occur in word problems about money and work time, graphs that must be interpreted, and equations that must be solved or analyzed. Seeing these three categories as similar leads to immediate recognition of a ...