How Do I Improve My Study Skills?
Here are some of the most important study tips consistently practiced by high-achieving students.
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What is Your Study Style?
If you’re looking for a way to boost your study skills this year, try out a couple of these major techniques, and see what serves your mind best.
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Do We Still Need Standardized Testing?
With the decline of the SAT and ACT, it is worth looking back at the original goal of standardized testing and asking ourselves what has been lost, what is worth preserving, and what must change.
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How Long is the SAT?
Preparing for a test means knowing what to expect on test day. With a standardized test like the SAT, this process should be simple. However, the SAT recently underwent major changes that every student preparing to take it should know about. The new, shorter SAT is almost unrecognizable.
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How to Study for the SAT
The College Board claims that the SAT and ACT test transferable skills like reading comprehension and logical inference. And the truth is, students who read well will likely perform well on College Board exams. But the test prep industry survives and succeeds due to the assumption that students can be trained to beat the test–that special knowledge of testing traps will help students improve their score without improving their reading skills, logical reasoning, or education in general. There is far more–or perhaps far less–to the SAT than the skills it claims to assess.
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