Optional SAT-ACT Essays – Take Them or Leave Them?
When your student takes the ACT or SAT, should it be with or without the optional essay? The ACT Writing section (essay) has always been optional. Not so coincidentally, students… Read more »
Why Kids Can’t Write
When your daughter gets to college, will she be able to write high quality papers… or will she need remedial writing help like so many students? Will your son’s employer… Read more »
How To Navigate a Gap Year
A College Application Guide for Gap Year Students By Kyle DeNuccio — New York Times April 6, 2017 Applying to college is onerous enough. Asking to defer enrollment for a… Read more »
Can You Prevent Math Anxiety?
Fending Off Math Anxiety By Perri Klass, M.D. — New York Times April 24, 2017 My mother was what we would now call math anxious, if not phobic. My daughter,… Read more »
The Redesigned SAT: A Year Later
One year ago, College Board discarded the SAT format they had used since 2005. The redesigned SAT launched in March of 2016 was a brand new format with the stated… Read more »
Test Taking is a Lifelong Skill
First, a true story. A mom was waiting for her eighth-grade daughter to finish her tutoring session for SSAT test prep (for private school admission). As we talked about the… Read more »