Understanding Your SAT Scores

The moment of truth has arrived: if you took the SAT on May 24, you can access your scores online. But what do all those numbers mean? Summary of Results: Each of the three sections – Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing – receives a score between 200 – 800. These numbers tell university admissions staff how [...]

SAT Essay Tips: Grammar & Form

When writing the SAT essay, paying close attention to grammar and form will help you convey your thesis clearly and get your content message across without any ambiguity. A well-executed essay response not only should display sound organization, thorough development of ideas and critical thinking skills, but also should demonstrate proper language use, sentence structure [...]

SAT Tips: The Essay (Part 2)

When writing the SAT Essay, it is best to choose a standpoint and focus on it. In the short 25 minutes, you will need to whip up a well-crafted, cohesive essay that addresses the prompt and presents your viewpoint on the concept at hand. To organize your response effectively, you need to look for key [...]

SAT Tips: The Essay (Part 1)

Taking the SAT practice test for the first time not only gives you a first encounter with the content and rigour of the critical reading, math and essay writing sections, but also a lesson in familiarizing yourself with the question types and writing the ten sections of the test under time constraint. Your cold run-through the [...]

To SAT or ACT?

To SAT or ACT: that is the question: Whether it’s best to subject the mind to the 3-hour-45-minute SAT Reasoning Test’s three sections in Writing, Critical Reading and Math to achieve the desirable 2400 or to take masterful control over the ACT and its 4 parts, based on the curricula of English, Math, Reading and [...]

The SAT Essay

To successfully complete an SAT essay, you need to learn how to develop an argument and defend your position. It is not essential that you know every fact and detail on the subject matter. The SAT essay rubric grades a student on a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being lowest and 6 being [...]

Scoring the SAT – Part Two

The Essay portion of the SAT is scored on a six point scale. Markers undergo rigorous training in order to ensure consistency. The language of the Scoring Guide provides a consistent and coherent framework for differentiating between score points, without defining specific traits or types of essays that define each score point. The following is [...]