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Sam Rosensohn
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While I continue daily to help students to improve their SAT and ACT scores, I also write a widely-read
newspaper column, College 101, which reports on the ever-changing college land-scape.
Take a look at my columns and don't hesitate to give me a call if I can be of
help, 860-664-9857 |
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Harvard University
requested College Planning Partnerships participate in its College Access
Collaborative, which is attempting to assess why students from below
median-incomes are dramatically underrepresented at selective private
colleges.
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School of Management conducted a nationwide search and selected College Planning
Partnerships to work with one of its graduate students.
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| Mary MacLean Smith Scholarship |
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The Mary MacLean Smith Scholarship is open to students who've
demonstrated enormous compassion to others and who do not have the
financial means to attend an SAT or an ACT prep class. To apply for a
scholarship please have your school counselor give us a call at
860-664-9857 or email us at
sam@satprepct.com
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The ACT Is Worth More than the SAT at Some Schools |
It wasn't too long
ago when snooty college admissions folks on the East Coast referred to the ACT
as the Jocks' Test. Not too long ago, it was viewed as the test for students who
lived west of the Mississippi and who were not applying to schools east of the
Hudson - except if the student was an athlete who didn't do so hot on the SATs.
That perception is wetter than the Hudson River. The ACT today is not only given
the same value as the SAT at many schools, but at some schools students who take
the ACT are excused from taking SAT IIs.
At Yale University and at Brandeis University SAT IIs are required for SAT
takers, but not for students who take the ACT. This is because the ACT is
perceived to be more of a content exam than the SAT, which by its own admission
is a reasoning test.
So just what is the ACT? It's a college entrance exam that is as popular in the
Midwest as the SAT is in the East. The biggest distinction between the two tests
is that the ACT has a science section, more difficult math, more focus on
content than on reasoning, less critical reading, less emphasis on arcane
vocabulary, no sentence completion, and the essay is optional. The ACT puts a
greater emphasis on attempting to measure what a student has learned about
English, Math and Science, while the SAT attempts to measure what a student has
learned about English and Math as well as a student's ability to reason. Hence,
the tricked up, slippery questions that are the marrow of the SAT test.
The administrators of the ACT say that roughly one-third of the students who
take both exams do better on the ACT, one-third do better on the SAT, and
one-third do worse on the ACT. What we've seen is that the group that does
better on the ACT than on the SAT is made up by and large of good students
who've got a strong base in the three R's as well as science. They also have
strong short-term memories because this test is more memory reliant than the
SAT.
So what's on the test and just how long is it? The three and one-half hour ACT
consists of four multiple-choice tests and an optional writing test; each test
is designed to measure academic achievement in English, mathematics, reading,
science and writing. The test is made up of a 45-minute grammar test; a
60-minute math test (pre-algebra, 23 percent; elementary algebra, 17 percent;
intermediate algebra, 15 percent; coordinate geometry, 15 percent; plane
geometry, 23 percent, and trigonometry, 7 percent); a 35-minute critical reading
test; a 35-minute science test (biology, chemistry, earth/space sciences,
physics); and a 30-minute writing test.
Please give us a call if you're interested in taking an ACT prep course, or
doing one-on-one tutorials for the ACT.
We created the TestSaver™. a diagnostic that students can take at our office
that indicates whether students will do better on the SAT or the ACT. Give us a
call to make an appointment to come in to take the TestSaver™ - there's no
reason to study for both tests.
Please take a look at our ACT Brochure
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Powerpoint Presentations |
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We're the first SAT test prep company in the
nation to use PowerPoint presentations in a prep class. Click here to try one of
our slides to see how it helps to visualize and understand the problem. By
employing this method we can cover 20 percent more math problems than when we
wrote everything on the board. Visual learners love it. |
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Let Us Show You How
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$11 billion in merit-based scholarships is available from colleges. College
Planning Partnerships' students have garnered as much $100,000 in merit based
money because of their high SAT & ACT scores.
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Test Your SAT Vocabulary
15 Words Spell the Difference
Between 650-800
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We have the key to the College Board's word bank and we'd like to share it with
you. College Planning Partnerships has reviewed over 50 SATs dating back to 1994
and discovered that the College Board employs the same opaque words over and
over. Take one of our SAT vocabulary tests now to measure the strength of your
vocabulary.
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