ShmoopTube

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Hi i'm dave symon off i'm the founder shmoop and

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i used to be a student too I am however

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now almost fully recovered from the experience The goal of

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this little video is to help you understand how to

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best use shmoop to improve your scores have a better

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life conquer the world and someday become president or not

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it's a bad gig really okay onto the meat in

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order to use shmoop here's what you got to do

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Sign into shmoop with your user name and password you

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probably created your account sometime in the not too distant

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past but if you fried your brain watching too much

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reality tv and can't remember whether your password is chocolate

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monkey or monkey chocolate still click on the log in

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in length instead of putting in your user name and

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password forty seven times hoping that somehow that will fix

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things just clicked the forgot password link Well fedex a

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new one over or better yet send one in the

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mail step two or do for your people in french

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class Click on a big surprise in drum roll this

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is where you do your training if you've had the

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good fortune to have access to more than one shmoop

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test prep guide unit You will see everything you own

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listed on my passes This is like a pass to

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a football game or disneyland but sorry in advance we

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are way less exciting than a good football game or

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disney Now alice you have officially falling down the shmoop

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rabbit hole and have arrived in a wonderland We like

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to call the dashboard intimidating Right Then our should look

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simple It s a t training were like call of

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duty Modern warfare This would be your h Q You

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have everything you need here Mental wait's brain weaponry and

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full rations of s a t know half So what

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do you do first How best to tackle the beast

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That is the well First enter the date of the

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you're planning on taking the number of days you have

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until the exam will then appear in the top right

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hand corner of the dashboard and we'll be your constant

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friendly reminder When you log in you only have twenty

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two more days until you face off with the get

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your game face on your dashboard looks pretty empty at

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this point it's time to fill it up first things

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first the diagnostic our diagnostic test is like getting a

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little less naked Check up the doctor and we'll let

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you know how healthy you are don't worry if you

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score on the low side that's what we're here for

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and whenever we figure out how to deliver a virtual

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lolly pops you'll be the first to know you should

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take the full diagnostic but for brevity of this training

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video will show you the math Click here then here

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sort of deal you will be timed and it will

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be scary never fear the diagnostics are shorter than the

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actual exams but they're definitely justus hard if not harder

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When you're going through the exam if you need to

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guess or come back to answer you can mark that

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question when you're done sitting in a flurry of eraser

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shavings and you scrap paper Or perhaps you've just worn

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down your keyboard keys a little click i'm done and

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this will bring up your diagnostic report Unlike many a

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book report you delivered in your youth this report is

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monumentally important It shows you which answers you got right

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Which you got wrong And even how you did overtime

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Cool The most important number here is your raw score

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and projected score And if you click here it shows

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you what skills you own and what skills you need

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to work on We're dropping more data than r two

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d two his math teacher which means you are now

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ready to tackle the topics You may save this report

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You can also send it to your teacher It's a

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review topics tap here you will find anything and everything

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you need to study for the start with the overview

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knowing exactly how the testes set up is just a

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cz important is knowing what's on the test This isn't

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the terms and conditions page on your most recent itunes

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upgrade So read it all the intro the do's and

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don'ts and the q and a section next move on

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to the real meat of the subjects If you had

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trouble figuring out how much math homework john forgot to

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dio you can hop right over to the algebra and

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numbers word problems section and get the complete low down

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This is perfect for topics that you covered years ago

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Geometry anyone be sure to check off when you've read

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a section for your own records When you feel comfortable

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with a topic drill it to access the drills head

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back to the dashboard and click drills I know that

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shocking the drill questions air set up like the practice

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exam but aren't time moved to any skill and drill

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until your heart's content you will always be able to

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look at answer explanations and save your work so that

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you can review past reels Once you have reviewed reviewed

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and reviewed some more then drilled up a storm you

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should be ready for a practice exam These air full

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length and the real deal feel free to sit down

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and take a full one that'll be a whopping three

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hours and forty five minutes so make sure you set

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your dvr to record that episode of american idol We

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love steven tyler around here or take sections to get

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your timing down Our practice is just like taking the

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actual exam and may even be a bit harder so

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get ready to let your brain sweat let's take a

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section together Now when you've finished you can see your

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results check answer explanations and save your work You could

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even send it to your teacher or mom or best

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friend or dog if he or she has an email

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address If you didn't deliver a gold medal winning performance

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don't worry there are five full length exams tons more

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drills and more review to be done As you get

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your study on take time to go back to your

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dashboard it'll show you how many shmoop once you've earned

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and how many topics drills and exams you've covered it

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will even show you how much you've improved or sucked

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worse just keeping it real here baby remember that diagnostic

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exam that was your baseline Now that you've done a

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lot of practice the dashboard will show you how much

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progress you're making hopefully and where you still need work

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Keep studying until you feel like you could take the

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with your eyes closed but don't do that Eyes open

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good eyes closed bad didn't mr me on he say

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that anyway uh then make sure to take the test

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with your eyes open Good advice We're here to help

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This is your brain This is your brain on schmuck

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