All Posts Tagged With: "SAT scores"
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 [...]
Improving Your SAT or ACT Scores: Take a Sample Test
Do you want your teenager to ace the SAT test or improve on a previous SAT score? Or maybe you just want to know if you can survive bad SAT results? Or maybe you’re concerned about ACT test scores.
Here’s good news: There are successful SAT and ACT test strategies that students can use to [...]
Weekend College Blog Roundup: Financial Aid, SAT Scores…
Don’t have time to track down relevant stories about college admissions, financial aid and important topics for families with teenagers?
No worries. You can find lots of them right here at TheCollegeSolutionBlog.com and each weekend I also provide the links to the college posts that I write over at CBSMoneyWatch.com.
Here are my CBS stories from 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 [...]
College Blog Weeekend RoundUp: Harvard, Student Loans and SAT Tests
Here’s my weekend college blog roundup of the posts that I wrote during the past few days for CBSMoneyWatch.com. Hope you enjoy them.
Is Harvard Going Broke?
If you’ve been struggling to stay on a budget, you might appreciate what’s happening at Harvard, which is experiencing the worst financial crisis of its 373-year history.
The Soaring Popularity of [...]
Surviving Bad SAT or ACT Scores
What adjective would best describe your SAT or ACT scores:
A) Transcendent.
B) Puissant.
C) Sublime.
D) Dreadful.
If your answer was “D,” here’s news that can chase away that funk: The number of SAT and ACT-optional schools continues to climb so even if you don’t earn a good SAT score or good ACT score, there is hope.
FairTest.org, the anti-testing [...]
