It’s a new year! Happy 2018 everyone! I can’t believe another year has gone by. My daughter just turned 10 and she’s thrilled to be in double digits. Which means I’ve been tutoring the SAT/ACT for almost a decade. Create a new plan With December SAT scores, December ACT scores and PSAT scores arriving just […]
Strategy
It’s hard to be the bard!
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I saw the Broadway musical, Something Rotten – a hysterical send up of Shakespeare. They reimagine Shakespeare as a rockstar, and in one of his songs he sings about how it is hard to be the bard. This bar that I’m raising to be this amazing, […]
Deliberate Practice
Contrary to popular belief, hoping and wishing for higher SAT and ACT scores doesn’t actually *result* in higher scores. Another parent told me her son was studying – he was working on SAT math problems. But when she looked closer she discovered he was only doing the ones he liked and skipping the other ones […]
Summer math brain?
I can tell it’s summer around here because I’m getting blank stares from kids when I ask them what 2+2 equals. (You can imagine the confusion when I ask them about fractional exponents or inverse slopes!) Summer math brain has set in! It’s way too hard to focus when it’s so gorgeous outside. So how do […]
Woot! Student SAT and ACT results are back
I love it when SAT and ACT results come back. There’s so much celebrating to do with my students. Here’s a sampling of my students’ results from the May SAT and June ACT. What’s most amazing is that these students had significant score increases with very little tutoring. The right tutor can make a huge […]
Bad explanations
Yay – The College Board now posts explanations for all the SAT Practice Tests. (The actually did this for the old test as well, but they didn’t publicize it well it so no one knew about it.) So high five to them for doing it better this time around. However, many of the explanations aren’t […]