Vital International Foundation's SAT Preparatory Course covers the following subjects theoretically and practically:

The course helps the student to:

• recognize and correct faults in usage and sentence structure
• recognize effective sentences that follow the conventions of standard written English

• Improve Sentences
• Identifying Sentence Errors
• Improve Paragraphs
• Write Better and Complete Essays

• Practice and Improve Sentence Completions
• Improve Passage-based Reading

• Train the Student in Test Taking Skills
• Standard Multiple Choice
• Student Produced Responses

The critical reading section, formerly known as the verbal section, includes short reading passages along with the existing long reading passages. Analogies have been eliminated, but sentence-completion questions and passage-based reading questions remain.

Vital’s preparation improves your:

• knowledge of the meanings of words
• ability to understand how the different parts of a sentence that fit logically together

The reading questions on the SAT measure a student's ability to read and think carefully about several different passages ranging in length from about 100 to about 850 words. Passages are taken from a variety of fields, including the humanities, social studies, natural sciences, and literary fiction. They vary in style and can include narrative, argumentative, and expository elements. Some selections consist of a pair of related passages on a shared issue or theme that you are asked to compare and contrast.

Vital’s preparatory program helps the student to recognize practically and contextually the following types of reading questions:

• Vocabulary in Context: These questions ask you to determine the meanings of words from their context in the reading passage.
• Literal Comprehension: These questions assess your understanding of significant information directly stated in the passage.
• Extended Reasoning: These questions measure your ability to synthesize and analyze information as well as to evaluate the assumptions made and the techniques used by the author. Most of the reading questions fall into this category. You may be asked to identify cause and effect, make inferences, recognize a main idea or an author's tone, and follow the logic of an analogy or an argument.

Vital will help the student to:

• read the passage carefully,
• decide on the best answer to each question, and then
• read the explanation for the correct answer.

The essay will measure your ability to:

• develop a point of view on an issue presented in an excerpt
• use reasoning and evidence based on reading, studies, experience, and observations to support that point of view
• follow the conventions of standard written English

The essay portion of the writing section was created with an understanding that an essay written in a short amount of time will not be polished but represents the initial phase of the writing process: the first draft. The Vital student will practice essay writing so that he/she will be able to write essays of high quality and be assured of a good score.

The mathematics content level of the SAT includes advanced topics. The Vital student will be thoroughly taught the following math concepts covered on the test:

• Arithmetic word problems (including percent, ratio, and proportion)
• Properties of integers (even, odd, prime numbers, divisibility, etc.)
• Rational numbers
• Logical reasoning
• Sets (union, intersection, elements)
• Counting techniques
• Sequences and series (including exponential growth)
• Elementary number theory

• Substitution and simplifying algebraic expressions
• Properties of exponents
• Algebraic word problems
• Solutions of linear equations and inequalities
• Systems of equations and inequalities
• Quadratic equations
• Rational and radical equations
• Equations of lines
• Absolute value
• Direct and inverse variation
• Concepts of algebraic functions
• Newly defined symbols based on commonly used operations

• Area and perimeter of a polygon
• Area and circumference of a circle
• Volume of a box, cube, and cylinder
• Pythagorean Theorem and special properties of isosceles, equilateral, and right triangles
• Properties of parallel and perpendicular lines
• Coordinate geometry
• Geometric visualization
• Slope
• Similarity
• Transformations

• Data interpretation
• Statistics (mean, median, and mode)
• Probability

• Integers, Odd and Even Numbers, Prime Numbers, Digits
• Percent Increase and Decrease
• Average and Average Speed
• Factoring
• Probability
• Functions
• Exponents
• Sequences
• Variation
• Absolute Value