"Who Should Take the June SAT or ACT?" Parents ask this all the time, and the honest answer is simple: the June test date can be a great move—but only if there’s a clear reason behind it. For some students, it’s about getting ahead. For others, it’s about getting it...
How to Choose Between Small Group Test Prep and Individual Tutoring
Every parent wants to give their child the best possible chance to succeed on the SAT or ACT. And for many families, that instinct leads straight to private tutoring. It feels like the most focused, most personalized option—one student, one tutor, no distractions, and a plan built specifically around that...
3 Ways Practice Improve SAT Scores
At Broward Tutorial Services, we spend a lot of time thinking about one question:Why do some students improve dramatically on the SAT or ACT, while others—despite having the same teacher, the same materials, and similar starting scores—barely move at all? It’s not luck. It’s not intelligence. And it’s not even...
PSAT
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...
TEST PREP PROFILE: Michael ElDeiry
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...
Order of Operations
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...
SAT VS. ACT – WHICH TO CHOOSE?
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...