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Know thyself (to get a better SAT/ACT score)

Know your own strengths and weaknesses to get a higher SAT or ACT score.

Wild and random guessing on the SAT and ACT

Should you chase after every question on the SAT or ACT test?

Don’t get tunnel vision on the SAT and ACT

How to increase your SAT and ACT testing flexibility (and your test scores)

Who vs Whom?

Both the ACT and the SAT test this grammar rule. The official explanation There are official explanations of the difference between the two. (Erica Meltzer has a explanation of an […]

A great SAT score is like a three-legged stool

A great SAT score is like a three-legged stool. It depends equally on content knowledge, strategy, and execution. Today I want to talk about STRATEGY. It is often the missing piece […]

Negative exponents

Just like most of my students don’t recognize an old-fashioned film strip, they also don’t recognize negative exponents. Exponents are tricky and they don’t work exactly like other numbers do. […]

Don’t fall for SAT and ACT sleight of hand tricks

Similar to the problem of the SAT and ACT leading you down the garden path by “lying” to you, the SAT and ACT folks also have another trick up their […]

The SAT is like your drunk uncle at a party

Today I was working with a student on the SAT writing section. The passage was comparing the numbers of physician and physician assistants (PAs) and the expected increase of PAs […]

Top 8 ACT tips

After working with hundreds of students, here are my best ACT tips to increase your score. Table of Contents Practice, don’t “study”Use authentic materialsPlan to take the ACT test twiceSlow […]

4 tactics to improve your ACT score in 20 minutes

I had a free 20 min call with a student who wanted to improve her ACT scores. Her current ACT scores were: English: 27 Math: 24 Reading: 35 Science: 22 […]

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