It is almost PSAT time! The PSAT is the Preliminary SAT Test, a standardized test created by College Board, the makers of the SAT test. The PSAT is given in October to 10th and 11th graders (and 9th at a few schools). It serves two purposes: acquainting students with the type of test they will face with the…

 Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry? Meet Michael ElDeiry. Since founding Broward Tutorial Services in 2004, Mike has worked with over 1,000 students. His students have achieved score improvements of 10+ points on the ACT and 500+ points on the SAT. Mike has a BS in…

Home Order of Operations If you’ve got to paint a fence, does it matter if you start on the left side or the right side? It’ll take the same amount of time to finish either way, so maybe not. But standardized testing is different from painting fences, and you might be left wondering if there’s an optimal path…

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 concerns for two different perspectives: that of a…

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, moving your way across the page methodically. Then…

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 see he managed to get all four of…

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 stranger to change. It’s undergone countless structural tweaks,…