Richard Atkinson and Saul Geiser recently published a critique of the New SAT in the New York Times. The article raises some interesting points about the SAT — and about…
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This post was authored by Chris Tokuhama, an independent college counselor with Collegewise in West Los Angeles. In addition to his extensive counseling experience, Chris has worked on ‘the other…
We are proud to feature the voices of prominent Southern California neuropsychologists, Dr. Dana Chidekel and Dr. Deborah Budding. In this post, Dana and Deb explain the history of testing…
For many students, college admission tests are accompanied by unpleasant physical and emotional side effects – heart palpitations, distractibility, nervousness, self-doubt – which sometimes lead to lackluster scores. We subsume…
This post was contributed by Steven Mercer, Ed.D, the founder of Mercer Educational Consulting, a private college counseling practice in Los Angeles. In addition to his extensive counseling experience, Steven…
We have written a lot about the coming paradigm shift for the PSAT (October 2015) and SAT (March 2016). ACT takes a far more gradual approach in introducing change but…
Mapping the ACT We have all heard the stories of drivers taking GPS instructions too literally and performing a “Turn Left Now” into a ditch. Navigating a standardized test poses…
Several members of the Compass leadership team — Bruce Reed, Matt Steiner, and I — spent February 19-20 in Newport Beach attending the College Board’s annual Western Regional Forum. We make it…
When we started Compass in 2004, we entered familiar territory. The founders had worked together before, having started California’s first in-home one-on-one test prep company in 1989. Back then, we…
