No college requires that a student take both the ACT and the SAT for admission, and the tradition has always been that a student applying to college...
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The ACT Benchmarks
ACT has designed benchmarks that identify the scores needed by a student taking its test which indicate that student would have a 50% chance of...
Strategies before Tactics: Preparing for the SAT
When it comes to preparing for a standardized test, it is impossible to underestimate the impact of learning for the long-term versus preparing...
Evaluating Your ACT Scores
Colleges use several criteria to decide who will be admitted to their campuses, but ACT scores (and SAT scores, too) are one of the more important...
A New Option – SAT Score Choice
Sat Score Choice is a new option. It costs no more, but it allows students who take the SAT more than once to select which scores will be sent to a...
Last Minute Advice for the College Applicant: the SAT Subject Test
November and December are the last dates this year to sign up for SAT Subject Tests. Most selective colleges do require you to take SAT Subject...
SAT Prep–To Do or Not To Do
Many reports and commissions, including a commission of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, have already concluded college...
New College Assessment Test for Eighth Graders
Yes, the College Board has announced that by 2010 it will offer a pre-college test for eighth graders. The test will be given two years before the...
The Writing Section of the SAT Weighs In
In 2005 the 25-minute writing section was added to the SAT test along with the critical reading test section and the mathematics test section...
Do SAT Scores Measure Success?
Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University, writes that Wake Forest, along with other liberal arts colleges including Bates, Hamilton, Holy...