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How to immediately increase your ACT Math score
Small tweaks create big results I worked with a student today, C., who immediately increased his ACT Math score from a 24 to a 27 from one week to the next – that’s jumping from the 73% to the 88%. He accomplished this by using two simple tweaks that I suggested: slowing down and guessing […]
The best ACT books to help you raise your score
I talk to a lot of parents that want to help their kids study for the ACT, but aren’t sure what to use. Here are my favorite resources that EVERYONE should use (whether you are studying on your own, taking a class, or working with a tutor.) Use the real thing The Official ACT Prep Guide […]
Top 10 SAT Tips
These are the SAT strategies, tips, and techniques that I use with my students over and over again. (And the reasons they achieve such high SAT scores!)
SAT/ACT Math secret: Draw a picture! (Even the cavemen did it!)
Have you seen the news on the Neanderthals? Apparently they drew pictures. And so should you. One of the most secret and under-utilized strategies on the ACT and SAT math sections is to draw a picture (even when it doesn’t look like a draw-a-picture-sort-of-problem.) In fact, if there were one statement I would get tattooed […]
Eliminate wrong answers
How you can use educated guessing to increase your SAT or ACT score