What can test takers expect on the digital SAT®’s Math component?
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What can test takers expect from the digital SAT®’s combined reading and writing component?
How can you tell when your client is ready to take the ACT® or SAT®? There are 4 telltale signs, or benchmarks, that indicate your client is primed and prepped to take the real test.
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Punctuation is tested on the English section of the ACT®, the Writing section of the SAT®, and the Reading & Writing module on the DSAT®. In this post, we’ll unpack which punctuation marks are tested on each of these tests, how they may appear, and how you can help your students totally crush these question types!
Rhetoric—not that meaningless drivel spewed by politicians, but persuasive language used in writing or speaking—tested on the ACT® and SAT® require the test taker to understand the author’s purpose; from their word choices and text structure to their point of view and persuasion techniques.
Senioritis is upon us—that time of year when even our most ambitious students start to lose motivation, and academic performances begin to wane. Here are a few strategies to share with your seniors to keep them motivated and focused on their end games.
Strip away the modern-day distractions and get back to the basics. For the sake of test prep, we’re going back to the 1990s!
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Choosing the best logical transition requires students to have a firm grasp on rhetorical skills—the ability to present, justify, persuade, and/or support a particular point of view. Knowing which transition words or phrases to choose can be trickier than test takers may assume.
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The best test-prep support we can offer our English Language Learners is that which provides them with the most effective strategies to help them succeed on the ACT® and SAT®.
Tone and attitude questions are found in both the ACT® and the SAT® ELA Reading sections. It’s important for test takers to fully grasp the concept of tone and attitude questions, discern how the author(s) or character(s) feel, and be able to pick out the descriptive language used throughout the text in order to competently answer these questions types.
Winter break is a great opportunity for students to pinpoint the most effective test-prep strategies to use as they gear up for their upcoming ACT® or SAT®.
There are 5 essential non-science skills that test takers need to master before they take the ACT® science test.
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Test-prep strategies and exercises to help equip your students to overcome stressful moments on test day.
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Empower your students to erase careless mistakes from their test day performance by giving them the protocols for self-assessment and the tools to try them out during their test prep.
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One of the most crucial jobs of a test-prep professional (and in turn, a SAT® or ACT® test-prep curriculum) is to ensure that students can both set and achieve realistic growth goals.
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Educators must be prepared to modify their test-prep curriculum in order to maximize the growth that students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can achieve.
What happens when a student isn’t demonstrating significant gains from assessment to assessment? Don’t push the panic button!
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There are few things nerdier than a deep-dive into calculators, but bear with me! A calculator can actually have a profound impact, negative or positive, on how a student does on the SAT® or ACT®.
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