Test Prep

We made it to the last Tests Uncovered post! It’s hard to believe our first post of the series was published back in May of 2015. In the months since then, we have covered just about [...]

Recent data has suggested a significant drop in students’ ACT essay scores after the exam modified the essay section and its rubric last fall. After several weeks of speculation but no [...]

The field of education is not without its own elements of “truthiness.” These are insights that feel right, with little regard to facts or evidence. In the classroom, these elements are passed [...]

This week we are taking a look at what to write on the Redesigned SAT Essay Section. What should your essay look like? The redesigned SAT will provide you with 4 lined pages for your essay. You [...]

When the College Board released the testing schedule for the next three years, something was different: an August SAT test date. For the first time in almost 40 years, students will be able to [...]

This week we are taking a look at The Passage on the Redesigned SAT Essay Section. What does the passage look like? The redesigned SAT essay passage is a 650–750-word speech or article intended [...]

Percentiles are a beast. And the beast is out in full force with the new PSAT. There’s been a lot of talk about scores, conversions, and selection indexes, but it all seems to focus now on [...]

This past fall, the ACT Writing section began featuring a new essay and scoring rubric. Students who took the ACT before it changed, then sat for the exam again after the changes were made, may [...]

This week we are taking a look at Argument Questions on the Redesigned SAT Writing Section. What does this question look like? These questions will ask a student to determine the purpose of a [...]