Note: This blog post is Part II of a two-part series about changes to the ACT. The original post is here. We received three main questions since publishing our original “The Unpublished Changes to the ACT” blog post in mid-July. They were (paraphrased): 1. Why does the original blog post seem to only focus on top-scorers? 2. Does any […]
The upcoming SAT changes in 2016 have dominated the mainstream media for the past 6 months. The undiscussed changes to the ACT that have been subtly occurring are equally important; this in-depth blog post covers several facets of these changes. 1) The test has been steadily changing for the past 24-36 months. Without any formal […]
UGA is a school of particular interest to many of our clients, so we wanted to do a deep dive into some UGA admissions trends that we’ve observed over the past two years. 1) A markedly larger share of the class was admitted via Early Action (EA) instead of Regular Decision (RD). The table below […]
1. Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. Your student should be using a TI-83 or a TI-84 calculator on the SAT and ACT, and nothing else. These calculators are very powerful and if used correctly, will allow someone to get a far higher score than he or she otherwise could. You can get one for […]
The SAT can be a mysterious test, especially if it’s your first time dealing with it. Students spend over four hours slaving over an answer sheet, and 20 days later a four digit score pops up online. Students and parents often feel a bit in the dark as to what that score means at commonly-applied-to […]
Background: In year 2000, fewer than half of the top 20 students at the high school of one of Edison Prep’s founders did more than cursory preparation for the SAT/ACT. Many just took the PSAT and then did one practice test the week before the test. That scenario hasn’t been the case for a few years now. Because […]
Most of the blog posts on this site are written by our tutors, but this blog post features commentary from three recent Edison Prep students, all three of whom went up +400 points on the SAT, got a top 5% SAT score, or both. They achieved such heights partially because of tutoring, but just as importantly, they […]
Note: For an easy-to-print PDF version of this blog post, click here. Thanks to the recent cheating scandal from a Long Island college student who used fake IDs to take the test for high schoolers, the SAT has heightened its testing security procedures for the exams beginning in September 2012. Here are the most important changes to the […]
I took the May 2012 SAT at a local school that we recommend to our students as one of the best. However, even at the best places, you’ll come across a bad proctor now and again. The administration of the test in my particular room was appalling, and luckily, I spoke up and had some […]
As anyone who has come to one of Edison Prep’s parent meetings has heard us say, we strongly believe that student motivation, not student starting score, is the ultimate key to success on the SAT/ACT. After working with more than 700 students, the most important variable that continues to most strongly predict a large score increase remains the same: […]
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