What Do The ACT & SAT Actually Test?
What do the ACT and SAT actually test? The students we tutor regularly pose this question to us during their prep sessions. The short answer I try to give is that it tests nothing other than how proficient one is at taking the ACT and SAT. Instead it is closer to the truth to claim that the test scores are blunt measurements that colleges use (among others, such as GPA) to help decide who gets into their schools and who doesn't. In other words, it does not test a student's in
Mastering The ACT Reading Section
This past Saturday thousands of Minnesotan students took the September ACT. Good luck on your results! Another ACT is barely more than a month away on October 26th. Let's take a few minutes to look at the anatomy of the reading section and lay out some important tips for your prep work. There are four types of passages in the reading section and they always come in the same order. The Fiction Passage (Passage 1) This first passage is usually an excerpt from a novel or part of
(Our Greatest Blog Revisited!) Top Ten Tips For Your September 2019 ACT Day!
We have published this top ten list below before, but it is so spot on that we feel it's worth a re-post! And overall, remember your ACT game plan: ENGLISH: Remember the five golden rules for grammar you learned from your ATT tutor. MATH: Know what you know and know what you don't know. READING: Focus on crossing off wrong answers. SCIENCE: Don't overthink it. Let it be easy. The first tip is the most important...so we added an adorable relaxing hound to help make our point a
