As part of maintaining expertise and gaining insight into what our students experience, I went to a local high school and took an official ACT on October 28. In this post, I'd like to share some thoughts about the experience. Some Personal Notes on the...
There is A LOT of confusion out there about how much emphasis high schoolers should place on preparing for and taking the SAT or ACT, and unfortunately, this confusion creates much needless anxiety. Even the colleges themselves are not very clear about how...
In the name of science, we went to the source and tinkered with the new Digital SAT practice tests released by the College Board. Our goal was to find out exactly what's going on under the hood to determine scoring on this new test. In this post, we'll lay...
Consider Both Tests Before Starting Gone are the days when schools accepted only the SAT or the ACT. Nowadays all colleges accept both tests and have no preference for which test scores students submit. And while it is true that many students score similarly...
The test optional movement is an ever-changing landscape with colleges changing and updating policies all the time. As of this writing (March 2023), some colleges have announced an extension of test optional policies (for example, Harvard has extended...
Parents and students alike are often unsure when to begin preparing for the SAT or ACT. Like most things in life there is no simple answer to this question and it depends somewhat on the student and his or her circumstances. We’ll go into much more detail in...
Despite popular misconception, the SAT and ACT are actually much more similar than they are different. Both tests are essentially reasoning tests and both tests are based off of a very similar content base, so our approach to tutoring both tests is...
So you wake up the morning of your big test and staring at you is a plate full of runny eggs. Do you eat them? Of course not! Ok, that is a pretty easy call. But what should you eat then? Well, this is really a bigger question because it also involves what...
In this post I would like to discuss something more general that I had actually planned to bring up in a later post, but the recent publication of an opinion piece in the NY Times by writer Frank Bruni has compelled me to discuss the issue now (Bruni’s piece...
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