Original Linkedin Post from Test Prep & Tutoring Professionals: “The College Board announced the release of SAT Practice Test 7. We’ve also added it to our free Test Prep & Admissions Resource Library. Beyond Practice Test #7, we have added Answers, Explanations, Scoring Instructions, and the Essay.” Community Membership is required to access but that is also free. […]
Read More »Kaplan and The Princeton Review recently posted 3Q Financials. Both companies report declines in their YTD Test Prep business segments (-4% and -15% respectively). While these declines may seem disconcerting to independent tutors and boutique tutoring firms, there are some important considerations to, well, consider: 2015 3Q results (the comparator) were likely artificially bolstered by the then news […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) By Natalie Gross– When Nathan Bernard took the PSAT his freshman and sophomore years of high school, he admits, he didn’t take the test seriously. “I don’t think I brought a calculator,” the blond 17-year-old said, laughing, on a recent Sunday afternoon at his home in Alexandria, Va. Back then, Bernard was running […]
Read More »(EdSurge) By Larry Gordon. Ten students, most of them 11th-graders striving to become the first in their families to attend college, gathered recently for an after-school program at the Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro. The attraction: a new online practice programfrom the Khan Academy for upcoming SAT exams, a tool that could boost their […]
Read More »(Edsurge) By Betsy Corcoran and Mary Jo Madda. Sal Khan burst on the education scene in 2010, as thousands watched his videos and Bill Gates declared Khan was his “favorite” teacher. Since then, the mission of the Khan Academy has been breathtakingly ambitious: To provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. More recently, Khan […]
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