Home SAT VS. ACT - WHICH TO CHOOSE? There are few questions we receive more often than this one: “should my child be taking the SAT or the ACT?” The answer, of course, will vary on a case-by-case basis. We set out to answer that question and address a few common...
A LUCKY GUESS – PART 2
Home A LUCKY GUESS - PART 2 You’ve arrived at your local testing center to take an ACT test. Anticipation hangs thick in the air across the students, but not you. As the test begins, you don’t even open the test booklet. You just start to bubble in questions randomly,...
A LUCKY GUESS
Home A LUCKY GUESS It’s a call that many would find all-too-familiar: “time’s up, so get those last guesses bubbled in.” I recently said something similar to one of my students, which meant that he had to guess on the last four questions. As we graded, I was mildly surprised to...
AN EVOLVING SAT
Home AN EVOLVING SAT We’ve asked students when they’d guess the SAT first debuted, and their guesses are usually the same: around the 1960s or 1970s. The true answer? 1926 . Nobody expects that the SAT is nearing its 100th birthday! Over that long history, the SAT test is no...