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How to Prepare the Morning of the SAT

How to Prepare the Morning of the SAT Teaching Staff

You’ve spent months preparing for this – the SAT. You’ve studied hard, quizzed yourself and taken practice exams and you finally feel prepared. In order to gain the most from…

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How is the PSAT Used?

How is the PSAT Used? Teaching Staff

The PSAT is more than just a preliminary version of the SAT. Administered by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the PSAT is also the National Merit Scholarship…

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How to Improve Your SAT Math Score

How to Improve Your SAT Math Score Teaching Staff

Everyone wants to reach their true potential and score as highly as possible on the SAT. And with the math section, every last point counts so it’s important to know…

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Three Surprising Tips for Scoring Well on the SAT

Three Surprising Tips for Scoring Well on the SAT Teaching Staff

There are plenty of strategy guides out there for preparing for the SAT. And you probably already know the basic rules and setup of this test, and how it differs…

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Preparing for the ACT Writing Test

Preparing for the ACT Writing Test Teaching Staff

“The Senior Itch—the incurable chaffing we all crave to scratch. The cure? Graduation.” Thus begins a sample essay for ACT Writing Test. This particular “hook” was from an essay that…

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Science in the ACT

Science in the ACT Teaching Staff

Science. As soon as you see it, you might be thinking: Biology? Physics? Chemistry? How am I supposed to know all this? It can be very daunting, approaching this section…

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How to Solve SAT Word Problems

How to Solve SAT Word Problems Teaching Staff

For students who are intermediately good at sentence completion exercises, they have easy time solving questions with one blank; they just need to find what the blank should mean, and…

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ACT Science Reasoning Test: Data Representation Passages

ACT Science Reasoning Test: Data Representation Passages Teaching Staff

The ACT Science Reasoning section consists of 7 science passages of three different types of passages: data representation, research summaries, and comparing/conflicting viewpoint. Each of these different types of passages…

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Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors Teaching Staff

A part of the SAT English section that many students find hard to deal with is identifying sentence errors. This style of question tests the student’s knowledge of grammatical and…

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SAT Subject Tests: Who Should Take Them?

SAT Subject Tests: Who Should Take Them? 556 133 Teaching Staff

SAT subject tests are an increasingly important part of the college admissions process. The general SAT reasoning test does a fairly good job of testing a student’s abilities in the…

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