我们先来看一下杨老师部分学生对此次考试的反馈：
不少同学反馈考试结束觉得人生无望。杨老师提醒各位一下子觉得难了不要慌，毕竟难度对每个人来说都是同样感受，CB会根据考生的表现相应作出评分表的改动，保证同批考生里考试分数的标准化。因此千万要稳住心态，不要过分紧张影响发挥。
值得注意的是，由于这次11月份考试大龄考生（超过21岁）不能考试，因此CB放松了警惕，全亚洲包括港澳台，澳洲，韩国，日本乃至新西兰全部采用了同一套卷子，为作弊有备而来的学生很有可能钻到了空子（事实上，貌似香港开考前就已经收到1550分以上的答案了）。
阅读部分
Passage 1: literature
Passage 2: social science (chart)
Passage 3: natural science (paired)
Passage 4: history
Passage 5: natural science (chart)
（注意：以下内容来自多方总结，非本人观点，也不保证正确率）
第一篇文学：难度简单
文章大意：小说选自Elizabeth Gilbert的Sternman。以作者的叙述角度讲一个出生在小渔村的小姑娘被妈妈送到外面去读私立学校的故事。小姑娘对家乡有感情但是又觉得家乡生活千篇一律，在母亲面前表现出对家乡的热爱只是为了反抗大人替自己做出人生选择。文章表现小姑娘很有主见和思想。
题目还原：
主旨题：narrator的角度，应该是直接叙述了主人公的思想。
细节题：小女孩一直盯着天花板代表了什么，表达了她觉得家乡生活的boring, not exciting。
细节题：love fishing的目的（此题较难），应选为了protest遭到的待遇。
第二篇社会科学：难度中等
文章大意：选自Joshua Greene的Moral Tribes。关于无意识的bias fairness。社科讲在法庭上作为原告和被告，胜诉和败诉方看待问题的角度不一样，由于出于self-interest，看待同一事件的公平性也会受到影响。心理学家就此做实验，将对象分为两两一组，就同一件事做出自己的判断。
题目还原：
图文结合题：问为什么心理学家不让两组对象互相有交流，因为这样能让双方更容易没有bias的情况下达成agreement。选项应选没有bias的达到结论用时更快。
词汇题：prescribe选given。scope选series。
第三篇自然科学：难度较大
文章大意：新SAT真题第二次出现自然科学双篇，普遍反映比较难做。一篇文章选择自David A. Kessler的“Surface physics：A new crack at friction.” 。而另一篇文章选自 Peter Weiss的Model may expose how friction lets loose。两篇文章讲的是物理里的friction。第一篇着重讲概念，讲的是传统对于摩擦力的看法；第二篇着重讲模型，通过使用模型来进一步看待摩擦力。
第四篇历史：难度中等
文章大意：选自Samuel Taylor Coleridge 的一篇演讲，收录在The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4。作者来自英国，讲英国有些人比较极端，看到french revolution也想自己搞革命，作者批判了这种搞事情的行为。后文分别就三个class的目的和心态（分别是1. 墙头草，政治哪边强支持哪边，2. 暴民心态，希望看到复仇，3. 支持把地位高的人拉下马，但是又反对底层人民提升生活水平）进行分析和批判。由于是单篇，学生反映和平时的历史比较难度一般。
题目还原：
细节题：问third class支持revolution的动机，学生普遍选了维护low class的权益。
第五篇自然科学：难度中等
文章大意：关于natural selection。选自lee alan dugatkin 的一篇讲述common mole rats内部排外心里的文章（xenophobia）。讲述mole什么情况下更加agressive，什么情况下没那么有攻击性。文章表明在资源limited的时候攻击性强，而且和性别有关系。male对female攻击性小一点，同性之间攻击性较大。
这篇文章有一堆图表题，需要反复的和原文进行联系，难度也不小。
结论
阅读的高分，绝对理解力和正确做题方法缺一不可。
对于托福总分80+，托福阅读低于20的同学，基础薄弱（体现在词汇量低，长句理解差，文章整体理解不到位），谈论做题方法还为时过早。因此此类同学应该先巩固英文基础，把托福提上至少90再来准备SAT；对于托福已经超过115的同学或者是英文母语使用者，的确没必要上太多课，自己稍微刷下题，或者上2到3节点拨一下出题思路，就基本可以拿到370（52错4到5）的高分。
但是这两类学生都是少数。绝大多数学生都落在托福90到110这个区间，从几十轮的教学反馈来看，基本上能实现对文章80%或以上的正确理解。在大致的理解基础上，学生需要通过上课熟悉SAT阅读的出题思维，能通过题型判断定位，明确正确选项和原文如何实词一一对应，甚至更进一步地，能够在阅读文章的时候就能判断观点和出题点。从教学经验来看，只有大致理解而没有做题方法的同学，刷题熟练后基本上限是：托福90分对应SAT阅读280分，托福100分对应SAT阅读300分，托福105分对应SAT阅读310分。由于出题思路不清晰，错不知道为什么错，对也不知道为什么对，很多时候问原文证据根本答不上来或者对应不上，因此突破这个相应分数相当困难。加上语法部分一起算，没有系统方法和有系统方法的同学分差可以高达50分或以上，基础一样的情况下1400和1450的差距也许就体现在方法上。
语法部分
Passage 1：flavorists
Passage 2：fitness
Passage 3：digressing
Passage 4：nursing
语法部分中规中矩，难度和平时比较相似。标点符号考点较多，反复考插入语和同位修饰语，平时的考题价值比较大。考到了dramatic的修饰幅度。学生普遍反映不难。
结论
语法的高分，熟悉考点和总结错题至关重要。
语法考点包括：标点考查（尤其是逗号）、主谓一致、时态、平行、代词，句子结构。大家的困扰点仍是与语篇有关的题目，如句子删除、句子添加、插入句子的位置，举例题。语法的高分一直都是说起来容易做起来难。学生平时学习中必须尽量熟悉乃至背诵比较容易得分的语法点（上面提到的与动词、代词、平行等），并且要设立语法错题本，严格控制语法题目的错题量；与此同时，按照老师所教授的语篇题目解题方法进行训练。到最后实现零语法错误极少语篇错误，让所有的错误都集中在词汇题和固定搭配上，才能实现语法的高分（350+）。
考点和错题本对实现高分有多重要，可以来参考下托福104分，SAT从6月的1390大跃进到10月的1520的F同学的看法：
杨老师部分学生SAT语法学习的感受：
做完题目一定要把错题全弄懂，写出自己错误的原因，整理出一个错题本。这是杨老师经常让我做的，事实也证明这本错题本简直就无价啊！！语法有个类型的题目是选择逻辑连词，我在这上面真的是超级头疼，每次考必错一两道，杨老师帮我把大部分这种词整理出来让我抄在笔记上，然后我又补充了点，把每个词的英文解释全查清楚，之后考试果然错的少了。之后新sat题目做完了，杨老师又让我做act的语法，因为act里面的语篇题和sat很像，做了几套之后sat语法题果然错的少了。以前语篇加语法题永远突破不了7个，结果10月考试的语法我错了3道，两道是单词问题，别的类型的只错了1道。
写作部分
The Wrong Way to Protect Elephants
原文地址：
The Wrong Way to Protect Elephants | Ivory Education Institute
原文链接：
http://www.ivoryeducationinstitute.org/the-wrong-way-to-protect-elephants/
THE year was 1862. Abraham Lincoln was in the White House. “Taps” was first sounded as a lights-out bugle call. And Steinway & Sons was building its first upright pianos in New York.
THE year was 1862. Abraham Lincoln was in the White House. “Taps” was first sounded as a lights-out bugle call. And Steinway & Sons was building its first upright pianos in New York.
The space-saving design would help change the cultural face of America. After the Civil War, many middle-class families installed them in their parlors. The ability to play the piano was thought to be nearly as important to the marriage potential of single ladies as their skill in cooking and sewing, signaling a young woman’s gentility and culture.
The keys on those pianos were all fashioned from the ivory of African elephants. And that is why one of these uprights, the oldest one known to survive, in fact, is stuck in Japan.
The director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service recently issued an order prohibiting the commercial importation of all African elephant ivory into the United States. (Commercial imports had been allowed in some instances, including for certain antiques.)
The Obama administration is also planning to implement additional rules that will prohibit, with narrow exceptions, both the export of African elephant ivory and its unfettered trade within the United States.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has said that these new rules will help stop the slaughter of elephants. But we believe that unless demand for ivory in Asia is reduced — through aggressive education programs there, tougher enforcement against the illegal ivory trade and the creation of a legal raw ivory market — these new American regulations will merely cause the price to balloon and the black market to flourish, pushing up the profit potential of continued poaching.
In short, these new rules proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service may well end up doing more harm than good to the African elephant.
What these regulations will also do is make the import, export and interstate sale of almost any object with African elephant ivory virtually impossible. Anyone who owns any antique African elephant ivory — whether it is an Edwardian bracelet inherited from a grandmother or an ivory-handled Georgian silver tea set owned by an antiques dealer — will be unable to ship or sell it without unimpeachable documentation that proves it is at least 100 years old, has not been repaired or modified with elephant ivory since 1973, and that it arrived in the United States through one of 13 ports of entry.
The story of the Steinway underscores the complexity, rigidity and absurdity of these rules. The piano was salvaged years ago by Ben Treuhaft, a professional piano technician. When his wife took an academic job in Japan, he shipped the piano along with their other household possessions to Tokyo. They moved to Scotland after the Fukushima nuclear accident three years ago, leaving the piano in storage in Japan to be shipped later. Now Mr. Treuhaft is ready to return the piano to the United States and place it in the hands of a friend who planned to display it at her piano shop.
But the piano remains in Japan. It lacks the paperwork necessary to clear customs in the United States because Mr. Treuhaft failed, when he shipped the piano abroad, to obtain the required export permit identifying the ivory keys and the piano’s provenance. In the past, the government might have exercised some discretion over Mr. Treuhaft’s oversight. But no more. Moreover, to meet the personal-use exception for an import, the piano would have to be shipped back as part of a household move, and he wants to send it to a friend.
So the piano that Steinway says is its oldest known upright is stuck in Japan.
Of course, Mr. Treuhaft is not the only one who is or will be hurt or inconvenienced by this draconian order from the Fish and Wildlife Service, or the new rules that the administration seeks to impose. Musicians already complain of a burdensome process and monthslong delays in securing permits to take their instruments containing ivory abroad. And collectors, gun owners and antiques dealers say they have been blindsided by the proposed rules, which will effectively render their African elephant ivory pieces worthless unless they can meet the extremely difficult standards necessary to sell them.
We suggest a different approach. We should encourage China, where much of the poached ivory ends up, to start a detailed public education campaign that underscores the damage done to elephant populations by the illegal trade in ivory. We also need more aggressive enforcement of anti-poaching efforts in Africa. And we should figure out a way to manage the trade in raw ivory to protect elephants. For instance, several years ago, ivory stockpiles owned by several African countries were sold in a series of United Nations-approved auctions in an effort to undercut illegal ivory trafficking. The proceeds went to elephant conservation efforts. This is a better approach than destroying these stockpiles, as the United States did last fall to six tons of ivory.
Leaving Mr. Treuhaft’s piano in Japan will not save African elephants. But it will further endanger them and diminish the lives of those who recognize and value the role of ivory in history and culture.
结论
阅读的高分，绝对理解力和正确做题方法缺一不可。
对于托福总分80+，托福阅读低于20的同学，基础薄弱（体现在词汇量低，长句理解差，文章整体理解不到位），谈论做题方法还为时过早。因此此类同学应该先巩固英文基础，把托福提上至少90再来准备SAT；对于托福已经超过115的同学或者是英文母语使用者，的确没必要上太多课，自己稍微刷下题，或者上2到3节点拨一下出题思路，就基本可以拿到370（52错4到5）的高分。
但是这两类学生都是少数。绝大多数学生都落在托福90到110这个区间，从几十轮的教学反馈来看，基本上能实现对文章80%或以上的正确理解。在大致的理解基础上，学生需要通过上课熟悉SAT阅读的出题思维，能通过题型判断定位，明确正确选项和原文如何实词一一对应，甚至更进一步地，能够在阅读文章的时候就能判断观点和出题点。从教学经验来看，只有大致理解而没有做题方法的同学，刷题熟练后基本上限是：托福90分对应SAT阅读280分，托福100分对应SAT阅读300分，托福105分对应SAT阅读310分。由于出题思路不清晰，错不知道为什么错，对也不知道为什么对，很多时候问原文证据根本答不上来或者对应不上，因此突破这个相应分数相当困难。加上语法部分一起算，没有系统方法和有系统方法的同学分差可以高达50分或以上，基础一样的情况下1400和1450的差距也许就体现在方法上。
语法部分
Passage 1：flavorists
Passage 2：fitness
Passage 3：digressing
Passage 4：nursing
语法部分中规中矩，难度和平时比较相似。标点符号考点较多，反复考插入语和同位修饰语，平时的考题价值比较大。考到了dramatic的修饰幅度。学生普遍反映不难。
结论
语法的高分，熟悉考点和总结错题至关重要。
语法考点包括：标点考查（尤其是逗号）、主谓一致、时态、平行、代词，句子结构。大家的困扰点仍是与语篇有关的题目，如句子删除、句子添加、插入句子的位置，举例题。语法的高分一直都是说起来容易做起来难。学生平时学习中必须尽量熟悉乃至背诵比较容易得分的语法点（上面提到的与动词、代词、平行等），并且要设立语法错题本，严格控制语法题目的错题量；与此同时，按照老师所教授的语篇题目解题方法进行训练。到最后实现零语法错误极少语篇错误，让所有的错误都集中在词汇题和固定搭配上，才能实现语法的高分（350+）。
考点和错题本对实现高分有多重要，可以来参考下托福104分，SAT从6月的1390大跃进到10月的1520的F同学的看法：
杨老师部分学生SAT语法学习的感受：
做完题目一定要把错题全弄懂，写出自己错误的原因，整理出一个错题本。这是杨老师经常让我做的，事实也证明这本错题本简直就无价啊！！语法有个类型的题目是选择逻辑连词，我在这上面真的是超级头疼，每次考必错一两道，杨老师帮我把大部分这种词整理出来让我抄在笔记上，然后我又补充了点，把每个词的英文解释全查清楚，之后考试果然错的少了。之后新sat题目做完了，杨老师又让我做act的语法，因为act里面的语篇题和sat很像，做了几套之后sat语法题果然错的少了。以前语篇加语法题永远突破不了7个，结果10月考试的语法我错了3道，两道是单词问题，别的类型的只错了1道。
写作部分
The Wrong Way to Protect Elephants
原文地址：
The Wrong Way to Protect Elephants | Ivory Education Institute
原文链接：
http://www.ivoryeducationinstitute.org/the-wrong-way-to-protect-elephants/
THE year was 1862. Abraham Lincoln was in the White House. “Taps” was first sounded as a lights-out bugle call. And Steinway & Sons was building its first upright pianos in New York.
THE year was 1862. Abraham Lincoln was in the White House. “Taps” was first sounded as a lights-out bugle call. And Steinway & Sons was building its first upright pianos in New York.
The space-saving design would help change the cultural face of America. After the Civil War, many middle-class families installed them in their parlors. The ability to play the piano was thought to be nearly as important to the marriage potential of single ladies as their skill in cooking and sewing, signaling a young woman’s gentility and culture.
The keys on those pianos were all fashioned from the ivory of African elephants. And that is why one of these uprights, the oldest one known to survive, in fact, is stuck in Japan.
The director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service recently issued an order prohibiting the commercial importation of all African elephant ivory into the United States. (Commercial imports had been allowed in some instances, including for certain antiques.)
The Obama administration is also planning to implement additional rules that will prohibit, with narrow exceptions, both the export of African elephant ivory and its unfettered trade within the United States.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has said that these new rules will help stop the slaughter of elephants. But we believe that unless demand for ivory in Asia is reduced — through aggressive education programs there, tougher enforcement against the illegal ivory trade and the creation of a legal raw ivory market — these new American regulations will merely cause the price to balloon and the black market to flourish, pushing up the profit potential of continued poaching.
In short, these new rules proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service may well end up doing more harm than good to the African elephant.
What these regulations will also do is make the import, export and interstate sale of almost any object with African elephant ivory virtually impossible. Anyone who owns any antique African elephant ivory — whether it is an Edwardian bracelet inherited from a grandmother or an ivory-handled Georgian silver tea set owned by an antiques dealer — will be unable to ship or sell it without unimpeachable documentation that proves it is at least 100 years old, has not been repaired or modified with elephant ivory since 1973, and that it arrived in the United States through one of 13 ports of entry.
The story of the Steinway underscores the complexity, rigidity and absurdity of these rules. The piano was salvaged years ago by Ben Treuhaft, a professional piano technician. When his wife took an academic job in Japan, he shipped the piano along with their other household possessions to Tokyo. They moved to Scotland after the Fukushima nuclear accident three years ago, leaving the piano in storage in Japan to be shipped later. Now Mr. Treuhaft is ready to return the piano to the United States and place it in the hands of a friend who planned to display it at her piano shop.
But the piano remains in Japan. It lacks the paperwork necessary to clear customs in the United States because Mr. Treuhaft failed, when he shipped the piano abroad, to obtain the required export permit identifying the ivory keys and the piano’s provenance. In the past, the government might have exercised some discretion over Mr. Treuhaft’s oversight. But no more. Moreover, to meet the personal-use exception for an import, the piano would have to be shipped back as part of a household move, and he wants to send it to a friend.
So the piano that Steinway says is its oldest known upright is stuck in Japan.
Of course, Mr. Treuhaft is not the only one who is or will be hurt or inconvenienced by this draconian order from the Fish and Wildlife Service, or the new rules that the administration seeks to impose. Musicians already complain of a burdensome process and monthslong delays in securing permits to take their instruments containing ivory abroad. And collectors, gun owners and antiques dealers say they have been blindsided by the proposed rules, which will effectively render their African elephant ivory pieces worthless unless they can meet the extremely difficult standards necessary to sell them.
We suggest a different approach. We should encourage China, where much of the poached ivory ends up, to start a detailed public education campaign that underscores the damage done to elephant populations by the illegal trade in ivory. We also need more aggressive enforcement of anti-poaching efforts in Africa. And we should figure out a way to manage the trade in raw ivory to protect elephants. For instance, several years ago, ivory stockpiles owned by several African countries were sold in a series of United Nations-approved auctions in an effort to undercut illegal ivory trafficking. The proceeds went to elephant conservation efforts. This is a better approach than destroying these stockpiles, as the United States did last fall to six tons of ivory.
Leaving Mr. Treuhaft’s piano in Japan will not save African elephants. But it will further endanger them and diminish the lives of those who recognize and value the role of ivory in history and culture.
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