by Mike Barrett | Dec 30, 2010 | ACT, General, LSAT, SAT
I’m a pretty disappointed football fan right now. Let me tell you why. The Giants (who are my favorite team because they’re my dad’s favorite team, and that’s how football works) have gone from being one of the best teams in the NFL to one of...
by Mike Barrett | Dec 26, 2010 | ACT, General, LSAT, SAT
In the last year or so I’ve had a lot of clients and parents mention to me that they were thinking of using medication to improve performance on a standardized test. This was something I almost never encountered when I first started tutoring for standardized...
by Mike Barrett | Nov 22, 2010 | ACT, General, SAT
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few sections of this article explaining that the SAT and the ACT are actually a lot more similar than most people think: The ACT Science section doesn’t reward you for knowing much science. The SAT Reading section...
by Mike Barrett | Nov 19, 2010 | ACT, General, SAT
Both the SAT and the ACT have essay components, and both of their essay components are, in a word, ridiculous. (If you’d like to see my video series on the SAT essay, it starts here: Mike Barrett’s SAT Essay prep ) Unfortunately, the easiest way to do well...
by Mike Barrett | Nov 15, 2010 | ACT, SAT
The conventional wisdom says that the ACT math section is closer to the math tests you take in high school than the SAT math section is. This argument is based primarily on the fact that ACT math involves things like matrices and trig questions, while the SAT...
by Mike Barrett | Oct 18, 2010 | ACT, General, SAT
(This mini-article on the “SAT vocabulary myth” is part 3 of my 7-part series on the differences between the SAT and the ACT.) The SAT doesn’t test vocabulary much more than the ACT does Just as a lot of test-takers mistakenly think that the ACT...
