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What's a diagnostic and why should I take it, alright fair question [Teacher talking in class room]

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well let's start with the what a diagnostic is similar to what a doctor [Guy in a doctor's white coat]

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performs on his patients they give him a list of their symptoms he checks them

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out cough cough turn your head please and then tells them what they have or [Woman in a hospital bed]

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don't have but in SAT land a diagnostic tests your mental acumen

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rather than your physical well-being and there's less coughing and germs and stuff [Woman sneezing]

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well a diagnostic is a shorter version of the actual test in fact it's just [Someone scrolling through an example diagnostic]

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long enough to give us a rough idea of how SAT healthy or SAT sick you are our [Girl sat at her school desk with a blanket]

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engineers take all the data from each diagnostics exam you take and project [Two men in suits wearing hard hats]

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onto the dashboard suggested areas to focus on with review topics and drills [Someone using the dashboard]

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even putting math topics in the math bucket list after all the Diagnostics

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are taken for example you may learn from the diagnostic that you're practically [Girl in a hospital bed]

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on your deathbed when it comes to long passages but your solid geometry muscle [Pentagon with muscly arms]

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is fit as a fiddle okay now on to the why if there's a chance of getting bad

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news well why should you bother well while the diagnostic may be optional the [Doctor in front of a fish tank]

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SAT is not the diagnostic will point out the areas where you may be a little weak

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so that you can hone your skills in preparation for the big day and maybe

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pop a mental vitamin or two it also doesn't make sense to waste your time [Kid studying at his desk]

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studying the stuff you know like the back of your hand if you're already an

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algebra guru well then the subject shouldn't get the same amount of your [Guy sat meditating thinking about algebra]

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precious study time as say yes sentence complete... sentence completion see what we did

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there I though it was pretty clever all right well if you bomb geometry on the

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diagnostic it'll let you know it doesn't mince words and you'll know that you

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should probably eat sleep and breathe right triangles for the next couple of [Kid in bed surrounded by triangles]

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weeks the diagnostic can also help you get your timing down with it's nifty

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correct versus time graph so you won't show up on SAT day with that [Kid sat at his school desk with a deer head]

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deer-in-the-headlights look so set yourself up for success with shmoop's

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handy-dandy diagnostics and you won't have to look like a woodland creature

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being startled by any sorta high beam there.. [Kid with a deer head walks out in front of a car]

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