Most colleges, although not all, require applicants to submit scores from either the SAT or the ACT along with their high school grades, teacher...
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Best Strategies for Taking College Entrance Exams
One class has now been accepted to college. But, already the high school seniors-to-be are thinking about next year’s college applications. Part of...
How Your Learning Style Can Affect Your SAT or ACT Preparation
Howard Gardner identified multiple intelligences which helped categorize how students can best learn. The way you learn can affect how you prepare...
College Admissions Tests
SAT and ACT scores are very important in the college admission process. But, while students are taking these tests which will help determine their...
The New SAT Essay
The 2016 SAT has a new face. One very different part of the SAT is the essay. The first difference is the essay is now optional. Some colleges will...
New Scoring on the ACT Writing Test
The ACT Writing Test is basically the same. It will still be scored on four criteria call the four domains: ideas/analysis, development/support...
College Applicants: What Can You Do if Your Tests Scores are Bad?
College entrance tests, the SAT and the ACT, are always a source of anxiety. The national average score on an SAT is 1500. On an ACT the national...
Reactions to the New SAT
March, 2016, was the first time college-bound students took the revamped SAT. What did students think of the new test? A clue might be in what they...
Why are the ACT’s Essay Scores so Low?
The ACT, now more popular than the SAT, has a new writing assessment. This essay is optional, and, although many colleges don’t require students take...
The New SAT Debuts March 5, 2016
The SAT is 88 years old and has not been revised since 2005 when it lost analogies and antonyms and began to require an essay component. Now it is...