I used to counsel students to take the SAT no more than three times. It was thought that admissions counselors at colleges might think students a little obsessive if they took it more than three times. In recent years, however, students are not required to send all their scores to colleges but can instead choose …

Vocabulary study is very important for the critical reading section of the SAT. There are 19 sentence completion questions requiring students to know word meanings. Additionally, there are a number of questions on the reading passages that also require word knowledge. The problem, of course, is that there are many words that that need to …

For both the SAT and ACT I recommend review books from the companies that make up the tests.  For the SAT, you’ll find that information at www.collegeboard.com and for the ACT, www.act.org. In my classes I provide the Official SAT Study Guide, the college board review book that includes 10 practice tests. Some of these …