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The College Admissions Gauntlet — 5 Education Articles to End Your Week

By Shannon Sweetser On February 4, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Assessments, Common Core, Education: General, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, In The News, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing
Standardized testing is a gauntlet that is the capstone of one learning experience and the gateway to a whole other world of possibilities; it’s no wonder that there is a whole industry devoted to building test scores and grooming students into improved test-takers. This week in 5 Education Articles to End Your Week, we take [...]
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New Learning Study: If You Test Them, They Will Remember

By Shannon Sweetser On January 21, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Teaching, Test Preparation, Testing
A new study published online in the journal Science reveals the value of encouraging students to take practice tests instead of simply studying the material. When students took practice tests they retained 50% more of the information a week later than students who took alternate routes to studying the material. We’ve already discussed why it’s [...]
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5 Education Articles to Start Your Week: Higher Education Studies, Tech Boot Camp and Chinese Education Systems

By Shannon Sweetser On January 18, 2011 · Add Comment · In Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, General, In The News, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing
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Hope you”re ready for some interesting reading after your long weekend! This week in 5 Education Articles to Start Your Week, I focus in on some new studies that came out this past week including one which determined, most unfortunately, that 36% of U.S. College Graduates don”t acquire any additional critical thinking or writing skills after 4 [...]
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Harvard and Georgetown Drop an SAT Test from their 3-Test Requirement

By Shannon Sweetser On January 12, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Education: General, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Teaching & Tutoring, Testing
According to the New York Times, prestigious universities Georgetown, Harvard, and Princeton all have something in common. In the past year they’ve all dropped a test from their three-test admissions requirement. That means that, according to the National Association for College Admission Counsel, no American college currently requires more than 2 standardized tests to gain [...]
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Do Colleges Really Care about SAT Scores?

By Socrato Admin On November 10, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Assessments, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing
The following is a guest post by Ellen Richards, the founder of Ellen Richards Educational Services, a college admissions consulting and tutoring firm in Los Angeles, CA. Before a student enters their junior year of high school, they’ve probably already heard all about the importance of standardized tests like the SAT and the ACT. With [...]
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SAT vs. ACT Exam: Which Test is More Popular?

By Socrato Admin On October 7, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Testing, Tutoring
If you are wondering whether the SAT Exam is more popular than the ACT Exam or vice versa, then look no further. Socrato has compiled some of the latest data from the SAT and ACT exams and put them together in a couple of graphs for you to figure that out. The source of the [...]
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The 3 Most Frequently Used Books for SAT Prep and ACT Test Prep

By Raju Gupta On August 31, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT
A good way to prepare for the SAT and ACT exam is to practice “real past tests”. Typically, you can get the “real past tests” from official books published by the CollegeBoard and the ACT Org. Over the past few years we”ve worked with hundreds of tutors and thousands of students and here are the [...]
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Want to know where to focus for SAT and ACT test prep? Grade test, score results, and get personalized reports at theTestGrader.com

By Raju Gupta On June 9, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Teaching & Tutoring
How have you (or your student) really done on SAT or ACT test prep? Do you know exactly what to focus on before next mock practice test? We are please to invite you to try theTestGrader, where you can grade, score and get detailed personalized reports for ACT / SAT full tests or individual section [...]
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Preview – Section Scoring and Performance Reports for ACT and SAT tests

By Raju Gupta On April 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In Exam: ACT, General, Socrato, Teaching & Tutoring
Students preparing for ACT or SAT tests and tutors who are helping students know how cumbersome it is to do scoring, scaling, and performance analysis on these tests (171 questions for SAT and 225 questions for ACT). Especially ACT is more painful as there are multiple level of scaling involved. See previous write up on [...]
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Release update | Section Scoring and Performance Reports for ACT and SAT

By Raju Gupta On April 14, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Exam: ACT, General, Socrato: Announcements, Socrato: Release Update
This past weekend our team upgraded Socrato.com. Key changes included in this release: Ability to configure custom branding for Scoring and Performance Reports Customers can now upload their logo, choose a color scheme, and create their own custom branded reports. This feature will be accessible to customers by request only. “Section Reports” (Mini Reports) for [...]
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