Ask a dozen people about college admission testing and you’ll get a dozen different takes. What you hear depends on whom you ask and the relationship they have with testing....
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In October 2019, nearly 4 million high school students took the PSAT/NMSQT, the College Board’s onramp to the college admissions testing highway that extends to the fall of senior year…
PART I: Unexpected, Unexplained Score Drops Critics of standardized tests correctly assert that even the best built tests are imperfect and incomplete. However, high stakes tests like the SAT and...
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SAT tutoring can be a humbling job. I learned some 20 years ago that just when I think the test makers have made a mistake, I should think again. Given…
On January 19th, 2021, College Board announced that they will no longer administer the SAT Subject Tests in the U.S. and that the Essay would be retired. Read our blog...
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When admission letters came in last spring, there was more head-scratching than usual among counselors and families. Much of the discussion revolved around how unpredictable things seemed, especially when it...
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