To Students taking the ACT or SAT in the Pandemic: Keep checking the updates!
????? Long story short, if you have questions about taking the ACT or the SAT during the pandemic, so does most everyone. The situation can change weekly. But here are some basic takeaways you can find if you peruse the ACT and SAT's websites. 1) When are the next exams? The next ACT is July 18th. The next SAT is August 29, followed by a test every month through June 2021. 2) How do I know if my local test center is still hosting it's scheduled test? Check updates daily by l
Easy Test-Taking Tips: Succeed with the Math Section of the ACT!
The Math Section of the ACT is unique among the "big four" sections of the exam: English, MATH, Reading and Science. How so? First, it is the only section with five answer choices instead of the usual four choices found in all other sections. See two examples below of a Math and English question respectively: Second, it is the only section that is not subdivided into "passages". The first difference is kind of a bummer because it means that if you are forced to guess on a que
A Parent's Guide to ACT Test Day
Hi guys, as you know, your kids have been working hard the past few weeks to get ready for their ACT exam in June and July. The ACT can make for both a stressful and long Saturday for students. Studies consistently show that managing stress is the one of the key factor in students achieving their goal score on test day. We’ve shared our tips with our students for how to manage stress on test day; however, we also have several suggestions for how parents can help support stude
26 Need to Know Math Concepts for the ACT
The ACT math section isn't so much hard as it is tricky. Unlike school where you spend a few weeks working on a unit and then take a test on it, the ACT math test covers material that goes back as far as middle school for some students. One of the first steps in getting a great math score is mastering these 26 key concepts. Sum: Addition Difference: Subtraction Product: Multiplication Quotient: Division Order of Operations / PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Div
A Parent's Guide to ACT Test Day
Hi guys, as you know, your kids have been working hard the past few weeks to get ready for their ACT exam on February 10th. The ACT can make for both a stressful and long Saturday for students. Studies consistently show that managing stress is the one of the key factor in students achieving their goal score on test day. We’ve shared our tips with our students for how to manage stress on test day; however, we also have several suggestions for how parents can help support stude
Mastering the ACT: Grammar, Grammar, Grammar
The English section of the ACT is by far the easiest section for most students to improve with focused tutoring. The English test is broken up into five passages, each of which has 14 to 16 questions for a total of 75 questions. The allotted time to complete the English test is 45 minutes, which amounts to nine minutes per passage. The test is broken up into two general types of questions: content questions and grammar questions. We'll tackle content questions in a later post
