Part 1: Percentile Inflation A series of changes has greatly increased the percentile scores that students and educators are seeing on PSAT score reports. College Board has not been transparent about all of…
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Part 2 : Score Discrepancies An historically narrow gap between sophomore and junior performance does not seem credible and leads to questions about how scoring, scaling, and weighting were performed and…
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Part 3: Lowered Benchmark The dramatic lowering of the college and career readiness benchmark for the "verbal" portion of the PSAT and SAT calls for a deeper examination and reveals potential structural problems with…
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Nearly three years ago, the College Board announced plans for a major redesign of the SAT. In less than three months, the new SAT will finally make its debut. Tickets…
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This blog post was contributed by Debbie Friedman, one of Compass' most talented and experienced tutors. Debbie graduated from Brown University and currently works as both a tutor and a…
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In February 2013, not many 8th graders would have been paying attention to the initial College Board announcements about overhauls of the PSAT and SAT. Those 8th graders are now juniors, and the…
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The September 12 administration of the ACT was the unveiling of the new and improved ACT Writing, the optional essay component that more than a million students choose to take…
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The good news for ACT, Inc is that their offering, the eponymous ACT, is the runaway first choice of students nationwide this year. The bad news for students is that…
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Beginning this September, the ACT Writing Test essay assignment will have a new purpose, format, and scoring. But is it the impossibly difficult task that students fear it to be?…
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As the Director of Curriculum at Compass, I have specific advice that I would offer to students preparing to take the new ACT Essay: #1 Breathe Seriously. Just breathe. You…
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