Dec 7, 2013 | Critical Reading, SAT prep
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 easier to see the ones...Oct 9, 2013 | College Counseling, SAT prep
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 the College Board’s output....Aug 12, 2013 | SAT prep, Writing
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 they did, then the tests would fail to be standardized....Jul 27, 2013 | ACT prep, SAT prep, Test Taking Strategies
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 every critical reading section of the SAT for about...Jul 27, 2013 | ACT prep, SAT prep, Test Taking Strategies
Which Test Should You Take: the SAT vs ACT Just like everyone else, we are not exempt from the struggle to figure out which is easier: the SAT or ACT. There are timing considerations At 3 hours and 45 minutes long, the SAT is longer than the ACT, which is about 3...