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Test Prep Guide: Why Our Diagnostics Save Time and Boost Scores

We have built our score reports to deliver the insights that the city’s top test prep tutors offer their students. Unlike any other diagnostic, they’re generated immediately through our proprietary technology, so that you’ll receive your full results in less than an hour after taking the test.

Test Prep Guide: General Test Planning & Strategy FAQ

Most prep is 4-7 months, but students show a wide range of needs. To determine an accurate prep program for a student, you need: A robust diagnostic to determine your starting score and content/testing issues, an ideal score based on the schools you’re applying to, a reasonable score based ...

Test Prep Guide: Why to Start Prep Early

The best ISEE and SSAT test-takers have a secret: they start prep early, and they know more going in. Here’s why.

Test Prep Guide: Use a Test Watch

Test prep is as much about content as it is timing. To ensure proper time management on tests, top test takers get this watch.

Test Prep Guide: A Guide to Sending Scores

You’re supposed to report all your ACT and SAT scores to colleges. Do you have to? How many should you report?

Test Prep Guide: Download this Program on Your Calculator

You knew you should have a calculator for the ACT & SAT. Did you know you could have this program installed with all your formulas?

Test Prep Guide: ISEE & SSAT

All your questions answered about ISEEs & SSATs. What are the differences? What’s a good score? What’s the best way to prep? (And more).

Test Prep Guide: Middle School Test Prep Calendar

Have you started prep too late? Follow our Test Prep Calendar to ensure you’re on top of the process.

Upper Level ISEE and SSAT: What You Need to Know

Explore key insights on preparing for the Upper Level ISEE and SSAT, including optimal preparation timing, understanding test differences, and effective strategies for success in high school admissions.

High School Test Prep Calendar

Have you started SAT or ACT prep too late? Follow our High School Test Prep Calendar to ensure you’re on top of the process.

Test Prep Guide: ACT & SAT

The ACT and the SAT are used in the college admissions process. After the academic transcript, they are the most important method for students to display their academic achievement and potential.

Test Prep Guide: EF and LD Test Prep Strategy

Test prep should be customized to students with executive functioning issues and/or learning differences. Here’s how.

Test Prep Guide: PSAT FAQ

This PSAT FAQ explains how the PSAT relates to future SAT performance, why it's scored out of 1520, how to interpret 10th-grade results, when a strong PSAT suggests staying with the SAT, and what to do if scores are lower than expected. It offers clear guidance on next steps, score potential, and smart timing for test prep.

The Why And How Of AP Prep

The onset of spring tends to bring not only warmth and thaw, but also that annual anxiety about the Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Whether you are officially enrolled in an AP class or simply registered alongside your peers, we wanted to reach out and provide a bit of clarity about the reasons to prioritize an AP score, as well as suggestions for how to do that.

Playing to Your Strengths on the LSAT

How should you spend the last week of prep before taking a standardized test? Consider drilling the easy questions rather than the hard.

Choosing between the GMAT, the GRE, and the GMAC

You want to go to business school for an MBA. Which test should you take? Your guide to the differences between GMAT, GRE, and GMAC.

GMAT/GRE: What To Know

Generally, the GRE is considered a harder verbal test (better for humanities students) while the GMAT is considered a harder math test (better for STEM students). Specifically, the GRE is harder than the GMAT in two areas.

Extra Time Guide: Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to your questions about extra time accommodations. When is too late to apply? Is it easier to get SAT or ACT extra time?

Extra Time Guide: The College Board (SAT / PSAT / APs)

Your guide to getting extra time accommodations on the SAT: what you need, when to apply, and how to handle an appeals process.

Extra Time Guide: ACT

Your guide to getting extra time accommodations on the ACT: what you need, when to apply, and how to handle an appeals process.

Extra Time Guide: Sample Student Letter Petitioning for Extra Time

Students can — and should — support their own application for extra time accommodations with a letter like this one.

Extra Time Guide: Sample Parent Appeal Letter Petitioning for Extra Time

Parents can support students seeking extra time accommodations with a letter like this one.

Extra Time Guide: Sample Tutor Letter Petitioning for Extra Time

Tutors can—and should—support students seeking extra time accommodations with a letter like this one.