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4 SAT and ACT Testing Strategies
During the past few days, I’ve sharing ACT and SAT test prep strategies to boost your teenager’s SAT or ACT scores. You’ll find my final ACT and SAT tips below, along with links to the previous ACT and SAT test prep posts.
SAT Testing Strategy: Use SAT Score Choice
Until last year, students who took the SAT [...]
How to Survive Bad SAT or ACT Scores
This week I’m sharing SAT and ACT test prep strategies. You’ll find the links to all of them at the bottom of this post. Here goes my latest test prep tips:
Strategy No. 6: Apply to SAT-Optional Schools
If your teenager bombs on the SAT or the ACT test, don’t despair. Plenty of schools don’t care [...]
Can Guessing Boost Your SAT or ACT Test Scores?
This week I’m sharing ACT and SAT prep strategies to boost your teenager’s SAT and ACT scores. In case you missed them, I’m linking to my first two SAT tips and then you’ll find my newest one which answers the question of whether you should guess on the SAT.
SAT Test Strategy No. 1: Improve Your [...]
Should You Take the SAT or ACT Test?
When deciding whether to take the SAT or ACT test, keep this in mind: the ACT AND SAT require different kinds of skills.
Some teens can significantly increase their scores just by picking the right standardized test to take. Here are reasons why the ACT or SAT might be better than the other:
Teens who do well [...]
The Great SAT and ACT Test Debate
If your teenager bombs on the SAT or ACT, you don’t need to despair.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts on my college blog, students can get into hundreds of schools even if they withhold their SAT or ACT test scores. See links below to some of these posts.
Today I want to draw your attention to [...]
The Latest Trend: Online College Matchmaking
How do teenagers find great colleges?
Traditional ways have included buying a copy of one of those big, fat guidebooks such as Princeton Review’s The Best 371 Colleges and the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Or teenagers look at US News’ college rankings.
Today, however, you can discover higher-ed possibilities by turning to online college matchmakers. Here are [...]
A New ACT Strategy
I want to share an ACT strategy that I was excited to learn about at the education conference that I attended this week in Baltimore.
I was fascinated to learn that an increasing number of colleges are cherry picking applicants’ ACT test scores.
To understand what this means, here’s some background: Historically, colleges used a student’s composite [...]
Lousy SAT Score? Don’t Despair
I’ve been helping the college counselor at my son’s San Diego high school with an overwhelming task that he faces every fall: getting all the seniors ready to apply for college. Herding cats is the image that comes to mind when I contemplate how difficult his responsibility is.
A lot of the teenagers who have asked [...]
Check Me Out On College Week Live
Instead of spending much time blogging today (Thursday), I’m going to be talking about college instead. I’m a speaker at an online event put together by College Week Live, which is an organization that sponsors virtual college fairs.
During my 45-minutes presentation, I’m going to be talking about SAT and ACT test-optional policies. Thanks to the [...]
The Latest ACT Test Scores and Comparing ACT and SAT Scores
What is the average ACT score?
For 2009 high-school graduates, the average ACT score was 21.1, which is identical to last year’s number. The ACT, which measures English, math, science and reading, uses a scale of 1 to 36.
The average ACT score remained the same even though a record 1.48 million students — 4% more than [...]
