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  • Writing an Academic Essay

    Writing an Academic Essay

    Unlike an ACT or SAT essay, there is no single format that will automatically guarantee you a higher grade on an academic essay. Unless your teacher has provided you with a specific template to use, […]

     
  • SAT Math Rules

    SAT Math Rules

    Like every section of the SAT, the Math exam has its own set of unofficial guidelines or “rules.” Today we’re going to look at some of these rules that the College Board consistently applies when […]

     
  • What is an Academic Source?

    What is an Academic Source?

    If you’re ever written a paper for high school or college, you’ve probably been told that you need to use academic sources. However, what qualifies a source as “academic”? Today we’re going to shed some […]

     
  • Prefixes and Suffixes of Common SAT Words

    Prefixes and Suffixes of Common SAT Words

    Last time we began talking about the process of using morphemes, the basic parts of words, to figure out the meaning of difficult SAT words. By breaking a word down into its root, prefix, and […]

     
  • Getting to the “Root” of SAT Words

    Getting to the “Root” of SAT Words

    One of the major criticisms of the SAT is its fondness for archaic vocabulary words that are rarely, if ever, used in everyday English. So prevalent is this criticism that the vocabulary-centered “Sentence Completion” section […]

     
  • ACT English Rhetorical Skills in Depth

    ACT English Rhetorical Skills in Depth

    Early in the blog we talked about the ways that the ACT chooses to categorize English section questions. Today we’re going take a different, more in depth approach to one of those categories: Rhetorical Skills. […]