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  • What to do when you are stumped by an ACT or SAT question

    What to do when you are stumped by an ACT or SAT question

    No matter how thoroughly you prepare for the ACT or SAT, there will probably be a handful of questions that will totally stump you. In this lesson, we’re going to cover what do when you […]

     
  • Advice for Choosing ACT and SAT Study Guides

    Advice for Choosing ACT and SAT Study Guides

     
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    The Top 5 Counterintuitive Grammar Rules on the ACT and SAT

    English has quite a few grammar rules that seem to fly in the face of common sense. The ACT and SAT test designers are acutely aware of how confusing certain English grammar rules can be […]

     
  • Colon Usage on the ACT and SAT

    Colon Usage on the ACT and SAT

    Some grammar concepts appear more-frequently on the ACT English and SAT Writing and Language sections than they do in “real world” writing. Both exams are notorious for over-representing one punctuation mark in particular: the colon. […]

     
  • Common ACT and SAT Verbal Errors (Part One)

    Common ACT and SAT Verbal Errors (Part One)

    In this lesson and the one that follows, we’re going to cover some of the most common errors that I and other teachers at the Learning Island have seen students make on the Reading and […]

     
  • Tips for ACT and SAT Target Scores

    Tips for ACT and SAT Target Scores

    Here at the Learning Island we recommend that each student planning to take the ACT or SAT sets a target score. A target score helps a student stay on track by giving the student a […]

     
  • ACT and SAT Reading Passage Introductions

    ACT and SAT Reading Passage Introductions

    Each passage on the ACT and SAT Reading sections is preceded by a brief introduction to the passage itself. The introduction provides the name of the author or authors, the work from which the passage […]

     
  • Similarities between ACT Reading and Science

    Similarities between ACT Reading and Science

    Students are often intimated by the ACT Science section. The very word “science” conjures up images of tedious lab classes and densely-worded textbooks packed with advanced terminology. Despite the name, however, the Science section contains […]

     
  • 3 Benefits of ACT and SAT Scaled Scores

    3 Benefits of ACT and SAT Scaled Scores

    I’ve had a fair number of my students and their parents ask why the ACT and SAT use scaled scoring systems instead of simply providing raw numbers or percentages. While the reasoning behind the ACT’s […]

     
  • SAT Reading Question Types: Part 2

    SAT Reading Question Types: Part 2

    This week we’re going to finish examining the major types of questions that appear on the SAT Reading section. Reading, like all sections of the SAT, uses the same types of questions over and over. […]