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As we ramp up for the busiest test season of the year, let's remember to prep intelligently by using quality prep books. The best test prep book for you is going to have a couple of key characteristics: a few…
Every year we get inundated with calls asking for help prepping for the PSAT. Our first response is always the same: why are you taking the PSAT? After a brief pause the conversations go one of four ways: I just want…
The Answer to Our Most Frequently Asked Question Although we could write volumes on the difference between these two tests, (and we have! click here to read) let us make it easy on you: It's simple. All schools accept both,…
A recent US News and World article came out with the findings that 79% of college admission officers surveyed agreed with the changes in the New SAT. Read the full article here. My contention is this: the College Board introduced…
Since the trend began about two years ago, we have seen hundreds of schools convert to Testing-Optional. These schools will accept, but no longer require, a student to submit standardized test scores as part of his application. At present there…
The revised SAT is a setback in the path to a more equal and progressive standardized testing system. After losing market share to the ACT for decades, the SAT will be revised in 2016 with the abstruse goal of testing…
Today I was with a student discussing the idea of Coding Responses—categorizing answers as potentially right, and probably wrong. It seems to me that the SAT is growing more ossified in its distribution of answer choices, and resultantly, it is…
This month, we received the annual SAT data dump. Whereas there is some good data here, and some new statistics worth noting, the more interesting information comes from the flurry of media activity that always kicks up in response to…
It must be boring to be a SAT writer. They must test the same errors every time, in the same quantity, and in the same method. In fact they have almost no room for creativity or change from test-to-test. If…
We have published a decent amount of articles on the merits of the SAT vs ACT, but a sharp distinction hit me today: The ACT doesn't test vocabulary, while the SAT tests it to no end: Vocabulary shows up on…
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