AP Score Results
When are AP score results for the May 2017 AP exams being released? Between July 5th and July 9th, 2017 — depending upon where you live. College Board, the maker of the AP exams, has released a schedule of when students will be receiving their AP scores. That rollout scheduleCategories: Standardized Testing
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ACT in Asia
The ACT is America’s “most popular college entrance exam.” It’s a moniker the ACT loves to tout since there’s a common misconception out there that more students take the SAT as compared to the ACT. It’s simply not true anymore. Times have changed and College Board’s SAT has found itselfCategories: SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
Standardized Test Cheating in Thailand
Look out Long Island’s Great Neck North High School. Yours is not the only epicenter of cheating on standardized testing. Students in Thailand were recently caught cheating on admissions exams for medical and dental schools and they didn’t exactly use crib sheets. Rather, they used James Bond-style glasses that took snapshotsCategories: Standardized Testing
New SAT Test Dates
We have new SAT test dates to announce. There will be an August administration of the SAT and SAT Subject Tests beginning in August of 2017. That’s right. August. This is great news for students. When school’s out for summer, it’s such a great time to prep for the SAT orCategories: SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
College Board and New SAT
College Board has implemented new measures so that SAT tutors won’t be able to take the new SAT tomorrow. College Board has long struggled with security issues, particularly in Asia (although there have been security issues here in the United States too — remember what happened in Great Neck, New York?). WeCategories: SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
First Administration of New SAT
Ivy Coach was featured today on the pages of the University of Pennsylvania’s newspaper, “The Daily Pennsylvanian.” The piece, written by Sophia Leporte is entitled “First high schoolers will take new SAT on Saturday” and, naturally, it discusses the SAT that will be unveiled this coming Saturday. It’s the firstCategories: SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
AP BC Calculus Test
There was a segment on “CBS This Morning” about two teenagers who didn’t miss a question on last year’s AP BC Calculus exam. Now keep in mind that there are plenty of students who score a 5/5 on the BC Calculus AP test, but these students not only scored 5’sCategories: Standardized Testing
The Reading Heavy New SAT
A piece in “The New York Times” by Anemona Hartocollis entitled “New, Reading-Heavy SAT Has Students Worried” highlights the changes that The College Board has made to the SAT, changes that — arguably — mark the largest overhaul of the exam in its history (some will surely beg to differ). AsCategories: SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
Change in Admissions Policy at UPenn
We have a change to an admissions policy to report at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning this fall, UPenn will no longer require applicants to submit two SAT Subject Test scores. Rather, they will only recommend that applicants submit two SAT Subject Test scores (UPenn recommends applicants submit two Subject Test scoresCategories: Ivy League, SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
SAT or ACT Optional Schools
Since we just posted the news of George Washington University joining the ranks of the colleges that have gone test-optional (which means that they’re schools that don’t require applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores), we figured we’d update the list of colleges that are test-optional. To be clear, thereCategories: College Admissions, SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing
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