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How profitable is CollegeBoard / SAT Company?

By Raju Gupta On January 4, 2010 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Exam: ACT, General, Teaching & Tutoring
An interesting article in Fortune Magazine which gives insight into financials of CollegeBoard (a “non-profit” which owns the SAT and other exams) and American College Testing (which owns the ACT test). According to the article: The most recent fiscal year revenue for CollegeBoard is $631 million. Net “excess” (profit) for the same year is $57 [...]
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ACT test score and composite score calculator simplifies ACT test preparation for tutors and students.

By Raju Gupta On December 22, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Exam: ACT, General, Teaching & Tutoring
UPDATE: There is an online version of this tool available for free at Bubblesheetgrader.com Tutors who teach ACT exam prep and Students who are preparing for the ACT exam, feel the pain of ACT test grading, scoring, and scaling. The process requires reasonable manual effort which is prone to error, and is time away from [...]
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Free ACT Test Score Calculator

By Raju Gupta On November 5, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Resource, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching & Tutoring
UPDATE: There is an online version of this tool available for free at bubblesheetgrader.com Because we frequently receive inquires for ACT Diagnostic Analysis and Reporting, we’ve decided to make the ACT the next test we support as part of our “Companion Series” diagnostic reporting suite.  We know that tutors and students have to deal with [...]
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The SAT Official Study Guide (Second edition) – Is it really worth it?

By Raju Gupta On September 30, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Exam: SAT, Teaching & Tutoring
   Recently collegeboard released the new version of Official SAT Study Guide (2nd Edition – Jul 21st 2009) which has 10 practice tests. This new guide replaces the older revision – The Official SAT Study Guide by The College Board (Paperback – Oct 7, 2004) which has 8 practice tests. On close examination of the [...]
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Can one teacher’s or tutor’s hardwork benefit others? Leveraging our “Follow” feature for educational content.

By Raju Gupta On August 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Content, Education: General, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
One of the interesting features of Twitter is the ability to “follow” anyone and then listen to their tweets. Effectively the person you are following becomes the “filter” for you for certain types of content and information.  You receive immediate updates on what’s going on. While working with a number of teachers and tutors, we [...]
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According to Dept. of Edu. Study – Blended courses (online and face-to-face instruction) are the best.

By Raju Gupta On July 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
According to US Department of Education study students who took “blended” courses — those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction — appeared to do best of all. The study finds this after detailed review of 51 high quality research reports out of over 1000 research studies. Looking at in detail, the key [...]
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The future of private tutoring in US – it’s going to be intense

By Raju Gupta On June 3, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Teaching & Tutoring
For people who do not believe that private tutoring can help increase SAT scores, this article about South Korean tutoring industry is intense. A recent study by NACAC got that private tutoring does not help much in raising SAT scores. At least, that’s how the finding of the report is being projected. If you detox [...]
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