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  • Strategies for Success on the Common Application

    Strategies for Success on the Common Application

    In this lesson, we’re going to provide some tips for writing college admission essays for the Common Application. This application lets you submit your personal statement to hundreds of colleges simultaneously. You are given a […]

     
  • SAT Reading: Tips for Understanding Pre-20th Century Passages

    SAT Reading: Tips for Understanding Pre-20th Century Passages

    The SAT Reading section contains passages adapted from works written in the 18th through the early 21st centuries. While students usually grasp 20th and 21st century passages with relative ease, many struggle with their 18th […]

     
  • SAT Writing and Language: Combining Sentences Questions

    SAT Writing and Language: Combining Sentences Questions

    This week, we’re going to focus on a specific type of SAT Writing and Language question: the combining sentences question. These questions present you with two closely-related sentences. You are then prompted to choose the […]

     
  • Using the “Elimination Method” on the ACT and SAT

    Using the “Elimination Method” on the ACT and SAT

    In past blogs, we’ve recommend eliminating wrong answers instead of hunting for right answers. Not only is this “elimination method” faster than answering the questions the way that the test makers intend, it can actually […]

     
  • Get Excited About History!

    Organizational Tips for ACT and SAT Preparation

      Staying organized is an important part of preparing for the ACT or SAT. Having a solid organizational strategy may not seem necessary in the beginning when you have just the official study guide and […]

     
  • ACT and SAT Reading: Common Errors

    ACT and SAT Reading: Common Errors

    This week we’re going to look at three of the most common errors that I have seen students make on the Reading sections of the ACT and SAT. While each student will find certain aspects […]

     
  • ACT and SAT Reading: Reasonable Inferences

    ACT and SAT Reading: Reasonable Inferences

    Every correct answer on the ACT and SAT Reading sections must be directly supported by the passages in some way. The exams try to obscure this seemingly-simple fact with questions that sound more open-ended than […]

     
  • ACT English and SAT Writing and Language: Tricky Wrong Answer Types

    ACT English and SAT Writing and Language: Tricky Wrong Answer Types

    The ACT English and SAT Writing and Language sections are extremely similar. This similarity extends to the types of wrong answer choices commonly employed on the tests. Some of these choices are obvious: subject-verb mismatches, […]

     
  • “Two-Part” SAT Reading Questions

    “Two-Part” SAT Reading Questions

    Two of the most challenging types of questions on the new SAT Reading section are actually paired together. The first of these questions asks you to draw some broad conclusion based on your understanding of […]

     
  • Unwritten “Rules” of ACT and SAT Multiple Choice

    Unwritten “Rules” of ACT and SAT Multiple Choice

    In this lesson we’re going to go “under the hood” of ACT and SAT multiple choice questions. Specifically, we’re going to examine three unwritten “rules” that apply to every multiple choice section of each exam. […]