Entrance Exams – SAT; ACT; PSAT; Subject Tests
The College Board announced a new AP Precalculus course beginning during the 2023–2024 school year. Previously, the lowest level of math for AP credit was Calculus. This addition is part of the College Board's strategy to boost the prestige of…
Starting with April 2021 testing, the ACT will provide an automatically calculated ACT Superscore to all students who have taken the ACT more than once from September 2016 to the current day. Superscoring involves taking the best score from each…
The College Board announced on January 19, 2021, that it will discontinue administering the SAT Subject Tests and the optional essay section on the SAT, changing the standardized testing calculus for many college-bound students. The SAT Subject Tests offered students…
The ACT has added 3 additional test dates to the Fall 2020 testing schedule. The updated Fall 2020 ACT national test schedule: September: Saturday, September 12 (existing) Sunday, September 13 (non-Saturday, existing) Saturday, September 19 (new) October: Saturday, October 10…
Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, and other Ivy League schools will not require SAT and ACT test scores for applicants in the 2020-2021 admissions cycle. After College Board and ACT testing agencies canceled and postponed multiple test dates amid the coronavirus…
After doing some research and polling students and tutors, Jed Applerouth, Founder & President of Applerouth Tutoring, penned a blog post explaining the SAT grading system and an explanation of the uncharacteristically harsh curve on the Math section of the…
FairTest.org, the "National Center for Fair & Open Testing", compiled qualifying scores for the Class of 2010 for each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Students in Wyoming qualified with a PSAT score of 201, while…
The College Board's new policy that lets students report selected SAT scores has set off both a national debate and heightened anxiety. Previously students who took the SAT more than once had no choice but to submit scores from all…
Need to improve your performance on the college entrance exams? Consider these study books and low-cost practice tools to improve your SAT and ACT scores. Princeton Review - Pocket Prep (Readers' Favorite) Princeton Review - Cracking the SAT (2009) Barron's…
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