In this article, PrepScholar cofounder and statistics expert Dr. Fred Zhang explains why the SAT superscoring means you can get huge points by retaking the SAT.  Many of you know that colleges often take the best SAT score in each section, but do you know how much you can gain by just a re-take?  Do you know how to do your retake to max your score?

If you’re not familiar with the design of these questions on every SAT, you should be. Here’s the scoop on Improving Paragraphs (and, bonus, a quick and dirty guide to acing the SAT Essay)!

 In this post, we’ll look at what these questions are designed to test, why those skills are important, and, of course, how to easily take the questions apart on test day.

You registered for the SAT II Math IIC and Chemistry test.  Last minute you catch wind that your preferred college wants Writing instead of Chemistry, and also Physics!  Can you change your SAT II subject tests?  Add or subtract tests?  How about doing it the day of?  Find your answers here!

For many students, the SAT represents the most nerve-racking day of their young lives. Fortunately, this short list of tips covers everything you’ll need to do to get in and out and score your highest.

Some readers may be excited to know, however, that once test day is over, you pretty much never think about it again. So the goal is to get in and out with as little stress as possible, in order to give your brain the chance to work its magic on those little bubbles.

Obviously, the main differences between the SAT and the classroom test is that the SAT is much longer and much more important. In order to understand the more subtle differences between high school assessment and the SAT, we’re going to look at the inherent differences between the classroom and the SAT test room.

Some College say scores are not required. Does this mean you have carte blanche to get out of the SAT or ACT?

Many students say their biggest problem on the SAT is running out of time. In this post, we'll cover some basic time-saving SAT strategies.

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We've gone through all the tips for how the new sat is different, and how that means the guide to studying for the new SAT will be different.  At this point, we can conclude that ...

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• All questions are now based on passages.
• The subject matter of passages are pre-determined. There's 1 passage concerning US and World Literature, 2 for History/Social Studies, and 2 for Science.
• Some passages will now contain data and require interpretation of data.

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In this article, we'll discuss how to use mindfulness to crush the SAT (and everything else that stresses you out!).

Are you thinking about how much to prep for the SAT, or whether you should even prep for the SAT?  This article answers your questions on that!

The College Board wants the world to think that the SAT is detached from real-world trivia, a pure test of reasoning and skill. But, of course, this is essentially impossible--hence the scores of SAT prep options out there (of which we are one).

As an attempt at a useful reference buoy in the SAT ocean, this post is an outline of the categories of writing that SAT Reading passages always fall into.