In a highly competitive college admissions environment, every advantage counts – and that can include a higher standardized test score. Knowing clearly which exam could give you an edge is a key first step in the test prep process.

Of course, to be advantageous a diagnostic test must be accurate! In this regard there is no substitute for learning analytics combined with expertise and experience with the tests themselves.

Test expertise supports construction of the most authentic and accurate sample tests. Learning analytics give “insights beyond scores” so you get the most for your time and money. Some of the data you should expect from a top diagnostic test like The SAT/ACT Diagnostic include: your raw score, scaled scores, percentile ranks, score summaries by section, a response summary, and your performance by question type and question difficulty.

The best diagnostic tests can tell you accurately which test you’re stronger on, or if it’s too close to call. The test should also provide guidance on identifying specific problem types where you have weaknesses. Thirdly, a test should give you a top-level breakdown of your scaled scores by test section, with the statistics weighted for question difficulty – again, pointing the way towards where you need improvement. A graphical representation of this data is particularly useful.

What does all that data get you? Here are three advantages that taking a SAT/ACT diagnostic test can confer in the college admissions scramble:

Advantage #1 – You save time and money.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to prep for one exam than two – especially when you know exactly where you need to focus your energy to improve, and where you’re already well prepared. If you know the topics and core concepts where you’re weak, tutoring and other forms of test prep can be much more effective. For example, standardized SAT prep programs allocate predetermined amounts of time to Algebra I and Critical Reading. If you know for sure you’re comparatively much stronger in algebra, you can put more energy into improving your reading skills.

Advantage #2 – It can improve your chances of admission to your top-choice school.

Based on anecdotal evidence, it’s not uncommon for a student to score 20 percentile points higher on either the SAT or ACT. That could be significant! The higher your standardized test score, the better for your college applications.  Many schools report that they’re decreasing their emphasis on standardized test scores. But when admissions officers at top colleges are making choices about who to accept and who to wait list or reject, any potential advantage could make the difference. One thing is for sure: knowing which test your likely to score higher on can’t hurt.

Advantage #3 – It could increase your chances of receiving “meritorious” scholarship money.

One way that the highest possible standardized test score can benefit you is the opportunity to be awarded “meritorious money” – the money that schools offer students whose stellar SAT or ACT scores will serve to increase the school’s average test score – and hence it’s national ranking. With education loan debt so much in the news lately, and student loans outstanding approaching $1 trillion, many students want to go to schools where their tuition costs will be lower.

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But while it’s generally recognized that neither test is “easier” or “harder” than the other overall, their formats are different – so one might be better suited to a particular student than the other. But which?

The goal of the ACT is to evaluate overall educational development. The SAT, however, is geared toward evaluate general thinking and problem-solving skills. In short: the SAT emphasizes reasoning more than content, while the ACT emphasizes content over reasoning. Another key difference is that the ACT requires you to complete more work in a shorter amount of time.

The college prep company College Planning Partnerships does a great job explaining in clear, understandable terms all the most important ways in which the two tests differ – and what kind of learner these differences favor. Better yet, College Planning Partnerships has developed an affordable and comprehensive SAT/ACT Diagnostic test, which includes a 9-page, learning analytics driven comparison report that details why a student will likely do better on one test versus the other. (The Socrato learning analytics engine is used to process the report.)

The diagnostic test was developed through experience gained over tens of thousands of hours tutoring and testing students. It consists of seven sections (ACT English, SAT Critical Reading, ACT Mathematics, SAT Writing, ACT Reading, SAT Mathematics, and ACT Science), each of which is designed to mirror the corresponding section of the actual SAT or ACT exam. Time allotted for each section also mirrors the actual tests.

The balance of questions and concepts presented in The SAT/ACT Diagnostic likewise reflect the actual tests, having been developed by analyzing the occurrence of each topic over 50 actual exams. The diagnostic is further refined through ongoing calibration, analysis and updates against the actual exams, to ensure accurate results and incorporate new concepts and questions.

Taking The SAT/ACT Diagnostic is easy, and results are available immediately. Taking the test requires about three hours, and is best done under conditions similar to how the SAT or ACT is administered (e.g., in a quiet, low-distraction space; using a timer on each section; etc.). It’s important not to exceed the allotted time for completing each section, as this could reduce the accuracy of the result.

Students can take the diagnostic and receive the report for just $50. An optional 1-hour online consultation about your report with a tutor or consultant “versed in both the SAT and ACT” costs an additional $100. This later option helps learners identify clearly where they need to focus their energy to improve their SAT or ACT score the most, and includes valuable strategies and a customized study plan to guide test prep.

A program — included materials with your own brand or logo on them — is also available for tutors and other educators, designed to help students identify strengths and weaknesses, determine which test is right for them, and get the highest possible score on the test of their choice.

The SAT/ACT Diagnostic and learning analytics report identifies whether a student is likely to score stronger on the SAT or the ACT, and provides first-hand, realistic experience with taking both exams. For many students, this offering will be a highly valuable, cost-effective and time-efficient “first step to successful prep” for a standardized college admissions test.

There are quite a few definitions of learning analytics in operational use. In his ELEARNSPACE blog, thought leader George Siemens states that learning analytics “is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.”

George Siemens also references the definition adopted by the EDUCAUSE Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative: “the use of data and models to predict student progress and performance, and the ability to act on that information.” This multi-year grant program (backed by the Gates Foundation and other notable institutions) aims to “dramatically increase college readiness and completion through applied technology.” Personalized courses and blended course delivery models are among the focal areas of the current requests for proposals. (EDUCAUSE offers a wealth of resources on the topic of learning analytics here.)

One of the most straightforward definitions is on Wikipedia: “… the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.” This definition is leveraged in a recent paper on Learning and Knowledge Analytics to look at ways to “… view and plan for change at individual learning paths and educational institutions’ courses.”

As the concept of learning analytics and the tools, terminology and methods surrounding it develops a more coherent identity and focus, how might it benefit tutors and teachers in their work with individual students – in either academic or business settings? How can teachers and tutors use learning analytics to 1) know how individual students are doing and 2) decide how to tailor instruction to their needs?

These are the kinds of questions that the 2011 Horizon Report seems to be asking. In this context, learning analytics are seen as “the interpretation of a wide range of data produced by and gathered on behalf of students in order to assess academic progress, predict future performance, and spot potential issues.” Analysis models that process, format and display the data assist educators in interpreting it, with the goal of “tailoring educational opportunities to each student’s level of need and ability.” Ideally, in this view learning analytics would “create a far more robust and nuanced profile of students, in turn offering faculty members more insight.”

Likewise, the upcoming Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference references that learning analytics has the potential to address key aspects of an individual’s educational experience, like: identifying students in need of special help, reducing student attrition, and enhancing teaching methods.

So where is learning analytics being applied today to personalize learning? The School of One program uses learning analytics “playlists” on an everyday basis to dynamically develop personalized mathematics learning programs.

Socrato is also on the leading edge of developing learning analytics tools for both teachers and learners, in the realm of standardized testing. Socrato technology analyzes performance on online practice tests to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses, so that tutors and teachers can focus their energy where help is most needed.

What are your thoughts on the topic of learning analytics and how it can support learning – individually and collectively, now and in the future?

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As you probably know, learning disabilities (sometimes called learning disorders) are not problems with intelligence per se. Often they’re related to how the learner’s brain receives, processes and/or communicates information.

Children with learning disabilities may have trouble processing information in the typical way because they perceive and understand the world differently. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, approximately 15 million children, teens and adults in the US are learning-disabled.

If you’re sensing what seems like a lack of motivation or focus in a student, he or she may have learning challenges. Adults frequently report that learning-disabled students “don’t try hard enough,” “choose not to pay attention,” or lack motivation.

As a tutor, it’s most important to provide emotional and educational support to the best of your ability. The key for tutors is to recognize that learning-disabled kids need your help to learn how to be focused and motivated. How you respond to a child can have a big impact on their learning success.

Among the best ways you can support a struggling student is to show them step-by-step how to deal with learning obstacles. A positive attitude instills confidence, fosters self-esteem and builds hope in a positive outcome. Many famously successful people, such as Walt Disney and Tommy Hilfiger, have coped successfully with learning issues.

Tutors can further support struggling learners through advocacy. Talk with parents and teachers about what you’re seeing. Your observations could be important in getting special help for a child in need.

Teachers, tutors, tutoring companies and schools can also make use of learning analytics in combination with achievement tests or other standardized tests. Learning analytics can help educators gain insight into the learning strengths and weaknesses of students, as well as to develop personalized learning strategies for those with learning challenges.

Of course, it takes considerable knowledge and experience to diagnosing a specific type of learning disability. Kids can have a range of problems with language, math and/or writing, as well as auditory and/or visual information processing.

While many learning disabilities are noticed in elementary school, others (such as some nonverbal learning disabilities or NVLD) might not be spotted until the middle school years. As maturing children are called on to do things like comprehending abstractions and deeper meanings in literature, or navigating larger buildings and campuses on their own, problems they’ve been compensating for can manifest. Middle-school students with NVLD can also have difficulties with their increasingly complex social scene.

Here are some of the more helpful sources I found on the subject of supporting a student who might potentially have a learning disability:

• HelpGuide.org – a non-profit, ad-free information resource regarding physical and emotional health challenges
• The National Center for Learning Disabilities’ LD Insights blog
• Girlshealth.gov has an easy-to-digest list of common types of learning disabilities.
• Scholastic.com offered a useful article on NVLD

Do you have insights to offer from your work with learning-disabled children? Please comment and share your experiences.

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SAT vs ACT: Choosing the Right Test [NEW EBOOK]

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Our free 20-page ebook is a step-by-step guide on how to select the right test for your student. Learn everything you need to know about using the PLAN and PSAT to improve student scores, how to leverage learning analytics to select one test over the other, and other tips on how to take the guesswork out of selecting the ACT vs the SAT.

Siddhartha School educates over 300 students in grades nursery through 10. Most of the kids are from poor Buddhist families. They live in a region dominated politically by Muslims within a Hindu country. They speak Ladakhi, a dialect of Tibetan. Surely they are among the most geographically and politically remote kids in India.

I could blog for a year about my experiences in India. But one impression stands out in my mind: those disenfranchised kids buzzing happily around a dusty building with no heat and virtually no electricity were, at least in language, math and science fundamentals, better educated than their American counterparts.

I recall walking into a Grade 10 math class and looking at the blackboard in astonishment. The kids were studying pre-calculus, which I struggled with in an “advanced” 11^th grade class. When I conversed and later began corresponding with some older children, I found they spoke and wrote English – their third language – almost as well as their American age-mates.

Jobs are hard to come by in Ladakh. From Grade 10, a child’s economic future depends on whether he or she can pass the J&K state academic proficiency exams, which are similar in format to the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE) Standard X exams.

Despite numerous cultural and other challenges I’m proud that almost 100% of Siddhartha School’s 10^th graders have passed those exams and gone on to “intermediate college” (11^th grade) and even college. One girl in our first graduating class had the highest aggregate scores in all Leh-Ladakh! Now she’s studying in Delhi and will return to Ladakh as an optometrist.

Tutoring plays a huge role in the success of these students. During the school year and over the long winters, when school is not in session, members of the community help tutor the children for the exams. For some students, preparation begins several years out. Their powerful motivation and strong “work ethic” make all the difference.

I’m not the only one who feels, based on direct observation, that kids in India could outperform American kids in core subjects. If you’d like to sample India’s national proficiency exams, check out The Third World Challenge. Robert Compton, creator of the challenge and also the related documentary Two Million Minutes, shares more of his views and experiences in The Voice.

If you’re curious about how the US ranks against other countries, check out the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This internationally standardized assessment, administered to 15-year-olds, seeks to assess how well students have acquired skills “essential for full participation in society.” Sixty-five countries participated in PISA in 2009, and you can compare their results online using interactive profiles.

India’s educational standards and performance are gradually rising, while US performance has fallen to “average” relative to the PISA assessment. India will likely participate in the next round of PISA assessments, scheduled for 2012.

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From simple practice testing to multi-week “college admission prep” programs at major universities, the range of test prep options out there is incredibly diverse. Debate remains about whether test prep in general is “worth it.” But many educators – as well as students themselves – feel that some degree of preparation is important, if only to build familiarity with the standardized test format, which is very different from the testing kids encounter elsewhere, and presents different challenges.

Financial realities and time constraints limit the level of test prep many students can engage in. A popular “do-it-yourself prep course” that many students and parents recommend is to combine practice testing with tutoring. For example, Xiggi’s SAT prep advice advocates this kind of low-cost, straightforward approach.

The idea behind these common-sense techniques is that the more one practices, the more one improves. Xiggi refers to the SAT as “an animal” that test-takers should approach with respect, having learned as much as possible about its behavior and idiosyncrasies.

A minority of students might only need to review a past test or two to get a feel for the way different types of questions are presented and worded. But most students are likely to benefit from significant practice. Building confidence, time management skills, and familiarity with question types are key steps in this “animal taming” process. The overall goal is to gain knowledge of the SAT test itself. Students who can quickly assess questions and recognize familiar patterns can solve problems faster and with greater confidence.

The role of a tutor in this context is to help keep students motivated and engaged to support effective, focused study. (It’s often a challenge for parents to fill this role.) A tutor can also help strengthen subject knowledge or test-taking skills in weak areas – provided he or she knows what those weak areas are.

Diagnostic assessment reports and learning analytics, such as those offered by Socrato, enable tutors to leverage practice testing to precisely analyze a learner’s strengths and weaknesses, score tests by subject area, skills tested, question format and/or difficulty level, generate rich performance histories for motivational purposes, and much more.

With these learning analytics capabilities, tutors can support a single student or a group of students to create individualized test prep and skills assessment programs hone strengths and address weaknesses quickly and effectively.

On top of that, tutoring can offer so much more than just test preparation or even subject knowledge. For example, time with a tutor can help kids develop independent, self-motivated, confident learning styles that will enrich not just their college careers but their entire life path.

What’s the most cost- and time-effective way to boost knowledge, skills, confidence and SAT/ACT scores? Many tutors and other educators, as well as parents and students, may have differing perspectives. Combining proven, affordable practice test-taking with learning analytics to guide targeted skill-building is likely to be effective for many students.

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Now it’s up to them. With “the big test” just days away there’s not much more you can do to improve their performance.

Or is there?

Performing well on the day of the test can be almost as important as preparing well in advance for helping students achieve their maximum score. Many students perform significantly better on practice tests than in actual testing situations.

Recently the Learning Analytics blog featured 5 Clever SAT Preparation Videos. Echoing this theme, here are five common-sense tips you can give your students to help them maximize their standardized test scores and perform as well on test day as they have in practice.

Tip #1: Compete against yourself – not against the world

These first three tips come from YouTube videos featuring ePrep’s Karl Schellscheidt. The video “Living up to Your Potential” seems especially relevant for those about to take a college prep test. The key message here is simply that students will perform better (and be happier in their lives overall) if they avoid comparing themselves with others, and instead compete only with themselves.

If we compare ourselves to others we inevitably lose. There’s always somebody smarter, faster or cooler out there. By focusing on what’s right for us and what we’re capable of doing, we can avoid undermining ourselves and maximize our potential on standardized tests.

Tip #2: Don’t go on “autopilot” during the test

There’s more good eve-of-the-exam advice from ePrep in the video Autopilot – Don’t Set a Course for a Lower SAT Score. The “autopilot” problem is most likely to plague well-prepared, confident students. Because they’re cruising through the exam, they may not be alert for subtly tricky questions. It’s important to pay close attention when reading each question, even when you think you know the answer.

Remind your students to stay off autopilot. Encourage them to remain alert and read and answer each question carefully before proceeding to the next one.

Tip #3: Avoid making mistakes when filling out the answer key

The ePrep video “Bubbling: Avoid Mistakes in Your Answer Key” alerts test-takers to the trap of working out the correct answer to a test question – and then inexplicably filling in the wrong “bubble” on the answer key.

This kind of careless error is among the most frustrating ways to lose points on an important test. If you’ve been doing practice tests with your students, you probably know which kids are prone to making this kind of mistake.

To help test-takers avoid mis-recording their answers, ePrep’s Karl Schellscheidt suggests beginning the test by working through a page of questions in the test booklet, and then moving to the answer key and “bubbling in” those answers. Then move to the next page in the test booklet, answer all the questions on that page, then bubble in those answers, and so on.

To avoid running out of time before you’ve recorded your answers, it’s best to use this approach only to get a rhythm going at the start of the test or the start of a test section.

Tip #4: Eat for success

Taking a grueling SAT, ACT, PSAT, SSAT or other standardized test is like running a mental marathon. Eating right on test day is important because the human brain needs a steady supply of energy to function at its best.

Encourage test-takers to eat a decent breakfast on test day even if they’re not very hungry due to anxiety. Choosing appropriate snacks to eat during breaks is also important. Hunger is distracting, as well as a sign that the brain is running on empty and mental stamina is low.

Everyone’s body is different so one food does not fit all. It’s helpful if students can experiment before and during practice tests and at other times to identify what kinds of food help them stay alert. Here are some basic suggestions:

• Most people function best mentally when they eat a mix of complex carbohydrates and protein. Too much fat can cause drowsiness because it takes more physical energy to digest.
• Likewise, too much sugar or sugary snacks often cause a “sugar spike” – you feel ungrounded and spacey followed by a crash and low alertness.
• Healthy snacks like trail mix or fruits with a low glycemic index are a good general recommendation.
• Remind kids not to drink too much caffeine – especially if they’re not used to it. Likewise, energy drinks tend to hype you up and can reduce concentration and increase fidgeting.

Tip #5: Make practice tests feel like the real thing

Golf coaches are known to advise their performance-oriented clients to “play every shot like it’s the most important shot of your life” – even in practice sessions. In this way you can get used to the pressure, and your performance on the course will be as good as your performance in practice.

This strategy is applicable to standardized testing also. While it’s certainly appropriate to encourage students to relax during testing, it can also be beneficial to simulate the anticipation and excitement of actual test environments during practice.

Suggesting that students visualize the exam environment, as well as simulating exam pressure by timing tasks, are some ways to do this. Likewise, you can simulate unexpected exam distractions like the sound of typing and writing or sounds of traffic.

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Fortunately you don’t need to learn how to do Facebook right all alone. There are many businesses who have paved the way before you to creating engaging and creative Facebook business pages, should you take some time to look for them. Using these pages it’s easy to glean some proactive moves you can make to help build a Facebook business page that attracts your prospects, engages them and keeps them interested in the months to come.

To help teach you these tips, I point you to a few successful Facebook pages which articulate the value of getting creative and colorful on your Facebook page. Enjoy!

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online

We’ve already talked about some of the fantastic video content that Merriam-Webster has been putting together, but how they’re using it on Facebook is even better. They’re actually embedding the videos straight into Facebook for their fans to enjoy without leaving the Facebook platform!

If you’ve yet to create a piece of video content and share it on your Facebook wall with your followers you’re missing out on a fantastic opportunity to stimulate their minds and foster some engagement. Don’t worry if people don’t react right away to your change of place, keep the video content interesting and post it during times when your prospects might be at leisure to watch a piece of video content.

Tutor.com Online Tutoring for Military Families

If you’re only posting text updates to try to engage your tutoring prospects on Facebook, try to stimulate them with photos instead as Tutor.com Online Tutoring for Military Families has done. Photos are a great way to break up the monotony of your Facebook page and draw attention to your brand in the prospect’s feed. In the past year, Facebook has put even more emphasis on highlighting photos on Facebook, so if you haven’t experimented with creating visual content, now is a great time to start. If you’d like a comment about the photos to appear, I recommend adding a brief summary of the photos in your photo album (this will appear in the feed). If you upload a single photo at a time, then be sure to make create a description of that photo as well so the context of your photo appears in the feed, too.

Vocab Videos

One way to create content for your Facebook page and involve your fans is to feature a contest or showcase of talent from your fans. One educational business on Facebook that does this well is Vocab Videos, a SAT prep service that creates humorous vocabulary videos to help students learn difficult SAT words easily. They often feature student created contests on their various social accounts which lead to a lot of repeat engagement from Facebook fans while getting word out about the contest through showcasing each individual submission.

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SAT vs ACT: Choosing the Right Test [NEW EBOOK]

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Our free 20-page ebook is a step-by-step guide on how to select the right test for your student. Learn everything you need to know about using the PLAN and PSAT to improve student scores, how to leverage learning analytics to select one test over the other, and other tips on how to take the guesswork out of selecting the ACT vs the SAT.

Putting Ideals into Action

However, in practice it’s harder to put these ideals into action when you have a parent who “has paid good money” to see results for their child, or has unreasonable expectations. These pressures can be especially tough on tutors who, according to some horror stories I’ve heard, often been expected to package the child like a product to pitch to the parent’s alma.

Though most parents might not be the horrible monsters that these stories make them out to be, these tales do have the same effect as an Aesop’s fable. They inspire us to think on our moral rights and responsibilities professionally. Even if a parent never asks you as a tutor outright to write an essay or get their student into a highly competitive school that the student simply doesn’t have the capacity for, you may at some point have to decide if your job is to serve the parent or the student. However, to run an ethical and helpful tutoring business, you really have no other choice but to represent the needs of the student to the parent fairly and perform the actions that best meet the student’s needs rather than the parent’s desires.

How Tutors Can Better Manage Parents

There are a few ways that tutors can manage the relationship with parents while serving the student. For one, if you’re a tutor who offers SAT and ACT prep services to students, you could  use testing data to establish a firm baseline for the student and communicate what can be done for the student in a realistic way. In this way, tutors could take a tip from marketers and underpromise and over-deliver on results. Avoid telling the parent what they want to hear, instead tell them what they need to hear.

You should also be sure to use learning analytics (such as the learning analytical software by us at Socrato) to firmly ground the parent into the reality of how the student is currently performing.  Parents too often see their children as they want them to be, not as they actually are — though this is often the sign of a loving, parental mind, it can often lead to a lot of pressure on the student to reach goals that are often loftier than they can obtain.

Another way to better meet the needs of your student while managing the parental relationship is to offer the parent a way to easily track their child’s progress. You should also keep the parent informed of what they can do to help strengthen their student’s performance.

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SAT vs ACT: Choosing the Right Test [NEW EBOOK]

Download this free 20-Page Ebook for Tutors Now!

Our free 20-page ebook is a step-by-step guide on how to select the right test for your student. Learn everything you need to know about using the PLAN and PSAT to improve student scores, how to leverage learning analytics to select one test over the other, and other tips on how to take the guesswork out of selecting the ACT vs the SAT.

As a tutor who is dealing with a generation of students who grew up around computers, it’s your responsibility to break through the technological clutter of their daily lives and help them focus on the task in front of them. However, it sounds simpler than it actually is in practice, more often than not you may have to use the tools that are familiar to the student to help them connect with the study material. Instead of forbidding technology that distracts students, bring that technology in as a teaching tool.

There are a lot of teaching tools out there you could use during your tutoring sessions, but none is as portable, as powerful and useful as the iPad. Here are a few must-download iPad apps for tutors that you can use to make your tutoring sessions more stimulating for your student without losing site of the traditionalist inside you.

Graphing Calculator HD

With nearly all the functionality of a TI-82 (and 99% off the TI-82’s $80 sticker price) this little app is a great tool for students in algebra, calculus, trigonometry or other advanced mathematics.

Math Formulas

When your student is stumped on which mathematical formula to use this helpful app is a great studying tool to help get them back on the right track.

Flash-Me

Now you can use Cramberry (a stand-up online flashcard maker) on your iPad! With Flash-Me, you can create, edit and study your flash cards on your iPhone. You can also share these flashcards as studying tools with your student.

DropBox

Are you going a little crazy trying to keep track of all of your important tutoring tools, documents and important papers? Then you need DropBox. With DropBox you won’t waste precious time searching for a video or piece of content you need for your student, instead you can use DropBox to store all of your documents in one place, sync all of your computers and devices, and create public folders that you can share with your students to access.

Algebra Touch

If your student needs help visualizing Alegbra problems, this little tool could come in handy. The student can tap to simplify the equation, rearrange it, and draw lines to eliminate identical terms.

iAnnotate PDF

If you’re working on the SAT Essay portion of your tutoring sessions or doing a little comprehensive ACT prep, this tool could be helpful to you. Using this App your students can turn a PDF into a document that they can highlight, annotate, and scribble all over.

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SAT vs ACT: Choosing the Right Test [NEW EBOOK]

Download this free 20-Page Ebook for Tutors Now!

Our free 20-page ebook is a step-by-step guide on how to select the right test for your student. Learn everything you need to know about using the PLAN and PSAT to improve student scores, how to leverage learning analytics to select one test over the other, and other tips on how to take the guesswork out of selecting the ACT vs the SAT.