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Assess Your Strengths and Weaknesses for College Board Exams

By Socrato Admin On May 24, 2018 · Add Comment · In College Application, Education: General, Tutoring
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses can be of tremendous value for your life and career. This awareness is invaluable because it will help you focus on the right things in an optimal way. This will of course also help you make better career and life decisions moving forward. When you clearly understand what your strengths are [...]
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About College Board AP (Advanced Placement) Exam

By Socrato Admin On April 24, 2018 · Add Comment · In College, College Application, Education: General, Tutoring
AP exams are college-level tests managed by The College Board (makers of the SAT). Students may take tests in one or more subjects; a comprehensive list of all available AP courses and tests is available at collegeboard.com. About 90% colleges in the United States offer credits, advanced placement, or both based on AP exam scores. Students [...]
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AP Exam Calendar and Deadlines for the Month of March-April 2018

By Socrato Admin On March 28, 2018 · Add Comment · In College, College Application, Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, In The News, Testing
Home-schooled students can study and prepare for AP exams on their own, or by enrolling in online AP courses. In order to take an exam, home-schooled students must register for each test he/she is taking with an AP Coordinator at a local public or private school. To review deadlines and responsibilities for home-schooled students and [...]
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College Test Score Worth of an ACT-vs.-SAT

By Socrato Admin On March 22, 2018 · Add Comment · In College, Common Core, Education Techology, Education: General, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, In The News, Learning Analytics, Socrato, Test Preparation, Testing, Tutoring
The ACT and the SAT, overseers of the nation’s two rival collage admission tests. First, the College Board released a set of charts that showed how new SAT scores compare with the old SAT scores and ACT scores. It turns out that the new SAT scores are somewhat higher on the 1600-point scale than comparable [...]
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Advise for Writing the College Application Essay

By Socrato Admin On January 9, 2018 · Add Comment · In College, College Application, Tutoring
No subject is more anxious with anxiety for the high school senior than the essay on the college application. Here are the best tips to write the college application essay: Be brief Although the Common Application main essay has only a suggested minimum of 250 words, and no upper limit. Be authentic Don’t enhance your [...]
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What’s a Best SAT Score for College Applicants?

By Socrato Admin On January 4, 2018 · Add Comment · In Exam: SAT, Tutoring
Youths who plan to submit SAT scores for college applications can use summer break to study, but it may not always be clear which SAT score should be their goal. The best SAT score for college applicants depends on their target schools, experts say. Admissions teams often consider applicants’ socioeconomic background when analyzing their scores, [...]
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Anticipated PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 Dates

By Socrato Admin On December 26, 2017 · Add Comment · In Exam: PSAT, Tutoring
The PSAT is offered in the month of October each year. Because high schools rather than individual test centers administer the PSAT, each school decides when to give the test to its students. The possible PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 test dates for 2018-2020: 2018 PSAT/NMSQT Dates Primary test day: Wednesday, October 10 Saturday test day: [...]
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Benefits of SAT Suite of Assessments

By Arun Dey On December 18, 2017 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Exam: SAT
The SAT Suite of Assessments helps students navigate their path through high school toward college and career, and offers a range of unique benefits to students. Opens Doors to College The SAT is an admission test accepted by all U.S. colleges. Income-eligible SAT takers receive college application fee waivers. Builds Skills over Time The SAT [...]
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What is Benchmark in Redesigned SAT?

By Arun Dey On October 4, 2017 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Exam: SAT, Tutoring
The SAT Suite of Assessments’ College and Career Readiness Benchmarks work together to help students and educators assess student progress toward college readiness from year to year. Benchmarks help: Benchmarks can help educators: Identify students who are on track for success in college and career readiness. Identify students who may need extra support while there [...]
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What is EBRW in Redesigned SAT?

By Arun Dey On September 19, 2017 · 2 Comments · In Exam: SAT, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements, Socrato: Release Update, Subject: Writing, Tutoring
The College Board now takes Reading and Writing together to give you one EBRW (Evidence-based Reading and Writing) score. Help you set realistic goals that are based on schools you’ll be applying to, rather than on some arbitrary standard that has no real justification behind it. The redesigned SAT has two sections (Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, [...]
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