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One of the worst experiences you can have on the ACT or SAT is realizing that you know absolutely nothing about the essay prompt. There’s nothing like that sinking feeling you get as you desperately […]
Test your readiness for the SAT with these questions modeled after the “improving sentences” portion of the SAT Writing section. Choose the phrasing that best completes the underlined part of each sentence. Choice A replicates […]
One of the more frustrating aspects of the SAT is its fondness for making students choose between pairs of commonly confused words. SAT Reading section answers frequently include words that are very similar in spelling […]
As you have probably heard, major changes are coming to the SAT exam in 2016. These changes are intended to make the SAT a fairer and more accurate predictor of how prepared high school students […]
We’re going to shift gears today and talk about high school AP courses. Taught by highly-qualified teachers according to guidelines set down by the College Board, the AP Program offers gifted and motivated high school […]
Part one of this lesson offered an overview of the ACT Science Exam format and the science-related skills the test attempts to assess. This part will cover how the passages themselves are structured and the […]
The Science section is unique to the ACT; the SAT exam has no equivalent section. Many of the standardized test strategies we’ve covered so far can apply equally-well to both exams. If you’re planning to […]
Last time we covered some general strategies for the reading comprehension sections of the ACT and SAT. Now we’ll look at the types of questions the tests actually ask. Like all aspects of the ACT […]
The ACT and SAT verbal sections demand a solid vocabulary, with the SAT being slightly more severe in this regard. SAT Writing sections include “fill in the blank” vocabulary questions, and the test is more […]
There is no one “correct” way to write an essay for the ACT or SAT. While essay graders all follow the same rubric, each will have a slightly different idea of what constitutes the perfect […]
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