printing out transcripts of Khan Academy

and giving him these sheets,

these stacks of paper when she visited him in prison.

and through just the transcripts

Jason was able to start realizing that he,

you know in school he felt weak in math

but now he's like I can learn this stuff

and his sentence was was taken down

from 30 years to still 15 years

so now in his mid-30s he's released from prison

he's feeling more confident

about his knowledge.

He goes to community college

and then he's able to use Khan Academy properly

with the videos and the exercises

what a lot of y'all are familiar with

and then he decides

he wants to transfer to a four-year college.

He uses the SAT prep that we do in partnership

with the College Board and he starts doing quite well

and I mean this is what's really mind-blowing

at age 35 he was able to transfer to Stanford University

as a computer science student and that was the Jason,

and by the end of the story we were all tearing up

this was as powerful,

and then I asked him I was like,

"Hey when everyone leaves

"can I take my phone out and just video you

"because I think your story,"

obviously it's something that we love to share

in forums like this

when we're pleading for people to realize

that hey Kahn Academy needs your help

but it's also an inspiring story.

I think we all have days

where we're like,

"Oh things could be a little bit easier

"or I had that setback or that setback."

But when you when you hear a story

like Jason's you realize that most of our setbacks

are fairly small in comparison

to what he's what he has gone through

and you see how far far he's gone.

And he still has setbacks

but it's amazing how positive he is.

I mean you know when you have a prison record

it's still hard to get internships

it's still hard to get jobs

even if you have Stanford on your resume.

So I think it's always good,

Thanksgiving was last week,

but I'm still kind of in the Thanksgiving mode.

I think we all need to really appreciate

how good most of us have it.

And Jason appreciates how good he has it,

even though he's had a tough beginning.

We have more donations.

Rita, thank you Rita, really appreciate it.

- [Crewman] YouTube's just joining us live too--

- Oh okay, YouTube--

- [Crewman] YouTube is a little bit late behind.

We've got our YouTube audience on board.

- All right

- Hi YouTube!

- Hi YouTube!

(laughing)

So just explain what's going on here.

Lizzie do you wanna? - Yeah, yeah.

For sure, so today is Giving Tuesday.

And Khan Academy, we are a non-profit,

so we are asking for your support today,

and we have a goal of raising $5000 during this livestream,

and during this livestream,

we'll call up people who donate,

and also take your questions.

So if you have any questions,

please put it in the comments of this livestream.

We'll try to get to as many as we can.

It does look like we have some more.

- And we might also call out people who aren't donating.

(laughing)

No, we don't know how to do that.

We would do it if we knew how.

But we don't know how.

(laughing)

A few people got scared.

(laughing)

Well thanks Jivan for donating, means a lot.

People can donate

on Facebook, there's a place to do it,

on YouTube, there's a place,

so that's a new feature they added?

- Yes, yeah.

- So there's a place to donate on YouTube.

- Yeah, it's a blue button somewhere around the video.

- Someplace.

- [Crewman] Top right.

- [Both] Top right.

- [Crewman] Not of the screen of the yeah, left.

- Yeah awesome.

- Top right - And it's on screen

where you can go to donate.

- Okay, you'll figure it out - Yes, yes.

- And if we raise $5000, before we show that

I don't want to.

- Oh, oh, yeah.

- It should be motivation enough.

Khan Academy is a not for profit,

it has a mission of free world class education

for anyone, anywhere.

Your donation will literally help us

serves tens of millions of people.

- Yes, yes.

- And as we explained to the Facebook users,

we're live streaming on YouTube and Facebook.

- Yep. - Simultaneously.

I'm very hi-tech.

- Yeah.

- As we explained, a not for profit

like Khan Academy, no one owns it,

I don't own Khan Academy, Lizzie doesn't own Khan Academy,

it's a public good, we're employees of Khan Academy.

But your donations is what allows us to continue

to provide things for free.

You see a lot of things on the internet

that seem free but they're making money off of you

in some way, shape or form.

They're feeding you ads and you don't realize it,

but that's programming your brain in sometimes shady ways,

maybe they have some kind of freemium,

they're going to try to sell you something at some point

or they're going to do something--

- With your data. - Maybe, yeah,

a little bit suspicious with your data,

not always suspicious but they're going to do something

with your data.

But as a not for profit, and not only as a not for profit,

we're supported by philanthropy and our goal

is keep Khan Academy free,

make sure that our bottom line is not profit,

our bottom line is our mission,

free world class education for anyone, anywhere.

So hopefully that is motivation enough to donate

to Khan Academy.

- Yes, yes.

- But just to put some of you on the edge, over the edge,

not on the edge, over the line,

on top of that if we're able to raise $5000

over the next half hour, I will explain this notorious

orders of operations problem which is fascinating

how popular this has gotten.

But I think most of you all know this.

And also Lizzie and I are answering questions

and we're also doing shout outs to people like Adeer

who just gave a donation so thank you

and Victoria Fry, I think,

I don't know if I mentioned Victoria,

well thank you Victoria.

- Wonderful.

So it does look like we have some questions

that are already coming in.

So what is your advice for when you can't get your

SAT score up?

- All right, SAT score.

So I think there's a couple of things

so before even thinking about how to get the SAT score up,

it's just to remind and we made a video about

de-stressing the SAT.

First appreciate that you are not your SAT score.

I think especially when you are in the later stages

of high school and you're in this period

where you're applying to college

and I know that's is happening

to a lot of students right now

or maybe there's a lot of juniors

who are starting to think about the process

for next year.

It can seem like your whole identity is going to be defined

by your grades, your extracurriculars,

your SAT score, where you go to college et cetera et cetera,

everyone's comparing.

And that's not the healthiest thing in the world

and we've all been there but I think

what you're going to realize is over the broader

sweep of your life that these are all

just very minor data points.

We have people who've, billionaires,

some of whom who've donated to Khan Academy

and their SAT scores were not so impressive,

but they're very impressive people,

they're very entrepreneurial,

they were able to go great things,

and they might've just not been for whatever reason,

you know, great test takers or whatever you want to call it.

So that's my first foundational is like

you are not your SAT scores, you are not your grades,

you are not defined by where you go to college.

And likewise, I know people with very good data points

who, you know, for various reasons

have had to struggle in various ways,

so, once again, that's the disclaimer.

- That's a great tip.

- Yes, and it's easy to pretend

that like,

I'm beyond all of this and I have to remind it to myself

sometimes that sometimes you visit a friend

with a massive house and you're like, "Oh, this is nice,"

no, I'm not defined by the square footage of my house.

But my advice for you for SAT or really any test,

one, there's direct advice,

we have the official SAT practice,

that we're partnered with the College Board

and we have many efficacy studies

that have shown that pretty much

every hour that you're able to engage on the platform,

you are going to grow and there are better ways

to use things like our official SAT practice.

I would recommend taking as many practice tests

as you can.

When you take the practice tests,

try to simulate real testing conditions

as well as possible.

After you've taken the test and you've graded your test,

look at what you got wrong and go back to those questions

and make sure that you understand how they work.

A lot of people when they see a test,

especially like a test like the SAT,

they're just like, "Oh, this is hard,

"there's just going to be questions I don't know,"

but it's worth appreciating that the SAT,

especially the SAT over the last several years,

it really doesn't over anything that isn't taught

outside of algebra two or outside of the tenth grade.

So if you feel pretty comfortable

and that you shouldn't look at anything and say,

"Oh this is some type of

"mysterious quantum physics calculus,"

nothing like that's on the SAT,

it's all stuff that you should see

by the time you're in tenth grade.

So you should feel confident that you can do any problem,

reflect on what you weren't able to do.

Always work on the stuff

that you find maybe most challenging,

sometimes it's a temptation for us

to work on the stuff that's easy.

- Yeah, definitely - Easy for us.

And what I'm describing and this would be true

if you are preparing for some type of a sport as well,

practice what you're not good at,

try to simulate real conditions when possible,

do that weak point training and I would say

rather than binge prepare, just do eight hours all at once,