For many students, one of the most dreaded parts of the college admissions process is taking college entrance exams. The ACT and SAT are the most popular such exams, and there is a great deal of hype around preparing for and taking these tests. Parents often spend hundreds or even thousands of [...]
Enough of my Class of 2017 students have taken the ACT that I'm beginning to see a pattern in their Writing scores: compared to these students' scores on the other sections of the test, their Writing scores have been surprisingly low. For example, one of my students had an English score of [...]
As explained in my March 11 blog post, the College Board will introduce a redesigned SAT in 2016. This month, ACT announced that it, too, will be making changes, though they are not nearly as extreme as those being made to the SAT. The new SAT will incorporate changes to both the test's [...]
If you are a high school freshman or younger, the SAT you'll eventually take will be quite different from the one that's now in existence. Last week, the College Board, which produces and administers the SAT, announced that it will begin offering a revamped version of the test in 2016. The changes [...]
