Compass directors have countless conversations with families about whether or not their students should retake the ACT or SAT exam. Even the ones who are thrilled with their initial results may succumb to…
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A few million high school juniors and sophomores took the PSAT last week. It gave them an early glimpse at the SAT along with some low-stakes first-hand experience with college…
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What is the PSAT/NMSQT, and How Does a Student Qualify for Preliminary Eligibility? In October 2018, 3.5 million high school students (juniors and sophomores) took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit…
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Counselors and families have been curious about the impact of the new PSAT on National Merit since the last pencil was put down in October 2015. Would it lower/raise the…
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ACT's controversial essay scoring has claimed more victims -- in this case, two of its more student-friendly policies. Testers who felt that there were inconsistencies in the multiple-choice grading or…
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A Widening Gap The release of ACT's class of 2016 report confirms that ACT is now beating College Board where it matters most — everywhere. ACT easily surpassed the 2…
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Why did ACT suddenly reverse course and ditch the 1-36 score for ACT Writing? ACT announced on June 28th, 2016 that as of the September 2016 test date ACT Writing…
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ACT Essay scaled score range now 2-12 again, no longer 1-36 Just nine months ago, ACT debuted a radically overhauled and ambitious new essay assignment and scoring methodology that moved the…
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This post was contributed by Compass tutor extraordinaire, Sarah Del Collo. Sarah is a graduate of Clemson University’s BA and MA programs in English and completed her doctoral work at the…
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When College Board published the initial PSAT concordance in PSAT/NMSQT Understanding Scores 2015 in January 2016, it labeled the tables "preliminary." It appears that they are on the verge of publishing the…
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