Two frequently asked questions about the SAT: 1) how does the new College Board Score Choice policy change SAT Preparation? 2) How should a student use his/her summer for SAT prep?
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Your Story: Uncovering Your Narrative for the College Application
Your college application is meant to be you in a nutshell. You’re not just a bag of facts, figures, accomplishments, titles, and GPAs. Instead, you’re a living, breathing person. All admissions committees want to know you as a person, not as a list, and the best way to tell them by telling them your own story.
Easily get 30 points (or more) on the SAT: Do Practice Problems Properly
For most students and parents, good practice = lots and lots of practice problems. However, improving on the SAT is a skill, and lots of practice problems doesn’t always mean improvement. To really improve and use your time efficiently, you have to practice properly.
GRE: Basic Content Used to Test Your Critical Thinking Skills
The GRE is a peculiar test amongst its fellow graduate-level exams. It seems simple, almost like a reiteration of the SATs, but here our GRE expert, Kyle Thomas, explains why that’s not quite the case.
The Perfect Student
She’s always on time. She does all of her homework. She is fun to teach. She always does more than is asked. Though she doesn’t pay a cent, she gets more of my time than any other paying student I’ve ever had.
Why SAT Preparation Works
Every so often when I tell people what I do (manage Veritas Tutors), I hear someone pooh-pooh SAT prep, “oh, SAT preparation? I read studies that say that it doesn’t work. The test isn’t coachable and you’re just making a lot of money off of people who are scared.”
That’s simply not true.
What is Close Reading?
I was recently browsing some of the documents on my back-up drive and found this treatise from the early days of Veritas Tutors, when I intrepidly pitched an innovative (in my humble opinion) writing course. In fact, I’ll even share the syllabus and marketing collateral with you – note the small class size and price per student $325 was a complete steal. Anyway, without further ado, here are my over-intellectualized musings on the elusive practice commonly referred to as “Close Reading.”
Free Play
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
-David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College
Dos and Don’ts
This blog post is in response to a recent New Yorker article, “Don’t,” from the May 18, 2009 issue. For those unfamiliar with the article, it can be found here. For those too busy to indulge in a full-length New Yorker feature, I have provided the following brief summary.
Zen and the Art of Parenting
“You must teach your kids they are special without having them think they are more special than anyone else.”-Ray Magliozzi, Car Talk A treatise on the middle path of child-rearing – or, how to help your offspring traverse the razor’s edge of adolescence – with input from Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s Car Talk.
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