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Blog postOne of the most common questions I get is How do I stop making stupid mistakes? It’s a question that’s always borne out of a sense of frustration (Arrghh, careless errors keep sabotaging my score!) and a sense of disappointment (I was so close…If only…). But if we look closer at why we feel that Continue reading
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Blog postA New Adventure As a teacher and an author of test prep books, I make it my job to see any changes to the test firsthand. That means taking the test myself, whether it was the updated ACT in 2015 or now the New SAT in 2016. So when April of 2016 rolled around, I Continue reading
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Blog postThe College Board has recently released a SAT Score Convertor that converts between old SAT and new SAT scores (as well as the ACT).
The calculator itself is quite clunky. I’ve managed to reverse engineer it into easy-to-read concordance tables:
New SAT/Old SAT Concordance Tables New SAT/ACT Concordance Tables These tables reveal something pretty startling: An old SAT score of 2300, long considered a good qualifying threshold score for Ivy League and other top-20 schools, is e -
Blog postACT on the new SAT: “We’re not having it. And neither should you.” Tensions between the organizations that make the ACT and the SAT are flaring after the CEO of the ACT denounced the concordance tables recently released by The College Board.
You can read the full statement here.
These tables supposedly allow students to compare their performances on the new SAT and the ACT. By using these tables, for example, a student who got a 35 on the ACT and a 1500 on the new SAT would k -
Blog postYou may recall this question from the 2015-2016 ACT booklet: In the mountains, Quezada found shards of pots, and an occasional complete pot, painted with intricate red and black designs. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable? F. pots—along with an occasional complete pot— G. pots, along with an Continue reading
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Blog postMany students think that participle phrases must modify the subject. Here are three examples where that’s true:
In all three cases, the participle phrase “thinking about the day ahead” modifies “Ed”.
Thinking about the day ahead, Ed set off for work. Ed set off for work, thinking about the day ahead. Ed, thinking about the day ahead, set off for work. But then wouldn’t a sentence like
The fashion designer noticed my interest in the yellow jacket, sewn with leather elbo -
Blog postI’ve been taking a closer look at the math questions of the day available on The College Board SAT app recently. It’s quite helpful and serves as great practice. I highly recommend it. As you can see, the app tells you the percentage of responses that were correct for each question. It also tells you Continue reading
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Blog postThe SAT will sometimes throw in a question on function transformations. This question can range from easy to difficult, so it’s important to understand the entire concept. For example, take a look at the following official example taken from The College Board’s Question of the Day app: Example Function Tranformation SAT Question The graph of Continue reading
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Blog postBoth questions in this post are official ones sourced from The College Board’s question of the day app. 1. October 31st, 2015 Scarlett is studying the neurology of mice. One article she reads suggests that the number of neurons a mouse has, \(N(t)\), after \(t\) months is modeled by the function \(N(t) = N_0\cdot (1 Continue reading
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Blog postAll the questions in this post are official ones sourced from The College Board’s question of the day app.
1. Remainder Theorem (December 4th, 2015) A polynomial function \(f\) has \(x + 8\) as a factor. Which of the following must be true about the function \(f\)? I. \(f(0) = 8\)
II. \(f(8) = 0\)
III. \(f(-8) = 0\)
A) I only
B) II only
C) III only
D) II and III only
Since \(x + 8\) is a factor of \(f\), the remainder must be 0 when \(f\)
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