The start of the school year ushers in an avalanche of information and obligation for students and parents: course changes, sports and club schedules, event calendars, arts performances, parent nights, volunteer opportunities…the list goes on. Amid the bustle, even important things like the SAT and ACT can get pushed aside. But by executing on a Read More
Are your students going to be taking the SAT soon? Are your students worried about vocabulary on the SAT writing test? Many students think big words will lead to a big score, but that isn’t true. Using words that make a student uncomfortable can lead to miscommunication. If your child wants to impress SAT readers, Read More
A large number of your students will be taking the ACT on April 8 or the SAT on May 6? If they have a disability and need extra time, a reader, or space in a separate room to take either test, you should not have any trouble getting accommodations. Both the College Board (which administers Read More
I recently saw something online about The College Board banning all non-students from taking the new SAT in March. It caught my attention as we typically have 2 or 3 good articles from Test Prep Companies in each issue of LINK for Counselors and have published some good articles on the expected changes to the Read More
Because it will be significantly different from today’s exam, the team at Method Test Prep has spent many hours learning about the new SAT. Can you spot the error in the underlined portion of this sentence? This is a classic example of a statement that would be entirely acceptable in modern verbal communication (indeed, we all Read More
The new SAT Reading section will ——- the sometimes ——- vocabulary tested on the current SAT, and will instead challenge students with more practical language in context. (A) expunge . . visceral (B) venerate . . arcane (C) recapitulate . . superfluous (D) eschew . . grandiloquent (E) distend . . outlandish When students Read More
Explaining the New SAT Mathematics Sections “Why am I learning this math? I’m never going to use it in the real world –– it’s useless!” We’ve heard that before. Students have been uttering some variant of the above for a very long time. On the one hand, hearing it is frustrating: educators know that utility Read More
Yesterday, the College Board released extensive information detailing the changes behind the new SAT, which will be administered for the first time in spring 2016. While there were hints of what was to come, we now have topic lists and sample questions that present the form and content of the updated exam. In this series Read More
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