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In this week’s lesson, we’re going to examine the pros and cons of beginning SAT prep with each of the three test subjects: Reading, Writing and Language, and Math. “Which section should I start with?” […]
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. […]
This week we’ll conclude our lessons about common errors that students make on the verbal sections of the ACT and SAT when they go with their gut reactions to questions instead of thinking it terms […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the more substantial changes to the SAT Reading section is the inclusion of one passage from the “Great Global Conversation.” The Great Global Conversation (GGC) involves U.S. founding documents, such as the U.S. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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