by Mike Barrett | Mar 26, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
(And why should anybody care?) If you’re planning to take a standardized test, you’ve probably devoted some thought to how you’ll prepare. But there’s one fundamental question that a lot of people never seem to ask about the whole testing...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 23, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
(. . . even though big test prep companies make serious money by telling you otherwise . . . ) If you go looking for test prep books at your local bookstore or on Amazon, you’ll see dozens and dozens of books that claim to offer practice tests you can hone your...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 16, 2011 | LSAT
This is a tricky question that comes up a lot, so let’s examine it thoroughly. First, different law schools treat multiple test scores in different ways. So the smartest thing you can do is figure out which schools you want to apply to, and then check out their...
by Mike Barrett | Feb 9, 2011 | ACT, General, LSAT, SAT
. . . perhaps the most thorough exploration of guessing strategy ever visited on the Internet If there’s one thing I get asked about more than anything else (apart from my credentials), it’s the issue of guessing on standardized tests. There are many, many...
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...
