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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]