With respect to college entrance exams, certain questions come up frequently. One example is, “Should my student take SAT subjects tests?” Another: “Should my child take the harder or the easier of the two SAT Math subject tests?” And another: “Should we do the optional (ACT / SAT) essay?”

The web has umpteen lists claiming to […]

Both the SAT and ACT essays now heavily stress analyzing presented arguments or perspectives. Your student will struggle to produce a good essay if she cannot rapidly spin out relevant discussion points – strengths and weaknesses, and evidence.

We find that many teenagers are not adept at this and don’t come up with enough ideas. This […]

The ACT people, and especially the SAT people, like to dangle in front of the kids a strange-seeming word that many of them actually could deal with, but only if they recognize that it is just a variant of a word they are familiar with. A decent percentage of kids will be familiar […]