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Here’s a Tutoring Company with a Formula For Helping Students Choose the ACT or SAT

By Shannon Sweetser On February 10, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Assessments, Common Core, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Resource, Test Preparation, Testing
While there are some tutoring companies who have a very basic formula for bumping up a student’s SAT score, there are some tutoring companies who go above and beyond. In the case of PrepMatters, a tutoring company which specializes in helping students achieve excellence through standardized testing preparation, test preparation starts with the student. Though [...]
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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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Release Update | Additional SAT tests now available

By Raju Gupta On May 3, 2010 · Add Comment · In Socrato, Socrato: Release Update
Over the weekend we made release updates to Socrato.com Some of the changes you might notice – In certain situation during Online Take Test (especially for ACT tests), the answer choices were not showing up properly, that issue has been resolved. While printing tests and bubblesheets from library, question content was not printed correctly. This [...]
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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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Release Update: Fixes for score recalculation of SAT, ACT and SAT/ACT comparison report

By Raju Gupta On February 17, 2010 · Add Comment · In General, Socrato: Release Update
Hello All, Not a huge release, number of minor fixes and enhancements in SAT/ACT custom diagnostic reports area. An issue related to the recalculation of the scores for SAT, ACT, and SAT/ACT comparison reports has been resolved. After uploading the session in bulk mode… if the user edits the session again online, the updated session [...]
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