The College Essay Guy, aka Ethan Sawyer, runs a platform (blog, podcast, website) providing college admission related guidance to tens of thousands of followers. He recently interviewed me for his…
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As you head toward the SAT or ACT, you’re probably being inundated with information about essays, test sections, and question types. There’s plenty of great advice out there, but...
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College Board administers twenty Subject Tests in the general areas of mathematics, science, English, history, and languages, but we’ve identified the five most popular tests with Compass students: Math Level 2,…
Compass recommends reserving a space in your testing location of choice as soon as you’ve decided on a test date. Testing spots can go quickly, and it’s always preferable to…
Demand and Supply For well over a decade, College Board has considered making a summer SAT a reality. The rise in EA/ED applications has increased the demand among students for...
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Why are Subject Tests required by drastically fewer colleges than a decade ago? Is the relevance and popularity of the tests actually diminishing? Are the tests likely to survive or...
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“What’s a good score?” is the second most common question we hear about Subject Tests—right after “Which subjects should I take?” Students struggle with these two questions because many of…
The What’s a Good Subject Test Score post deals with the relationship between old SAT scores and Subject Test scores. Most students now take the new PSAT, new SAT, or…
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” – Aristotle At Compass, we are big fans of analogies. A great way for…
Many students in the class of 2017 are eagerly (or not-so-eagerly) awaiting the results of the PSAT they took in October. Even students at schools where the PSAT isn’t administered…