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Getting Started with the SAT and ACT in 2025
Here are some common questions about what’s changed with SAT/ACT preparation in 2025. If you have other questions or want more...
benparis21
Mar 31, 2025
Assessing the ACT Changes (From 2024)
[This essay appeared in Inside Higher Ed in 2024.] Starting next spring, the ACT will see some major changes . It will be shorter, and...
benparis21
Mar 31, 2025
Choosing Between the SAT and ACT
If you’re thinking about taking a standardized test to help your admissions chances, the first step is to decide whether you want to...
benparis21
Apr 29, 2024
Beating Test Stress
For years, more and more colleges went test optional. But the tide has turned. More and more selective colleges, including MIT,...
benparis21
Apr 29, 2024
Standardized Tests and College Admissions 2024
Standardized tests are in the news again, and both students and parents have questions about the importance of the tests and what “test...
benparis21
Apr 29, 2024
The SAT's Proposed "Adversity Score" (From 2019)
[This essay of mine appeared on Inside Higher Ed in 2019, just as the College Board announced that it would assign an "adversity score"...
benparis21
Apr 29, 2024
Failing to Improve Critical Thinking
[This essay of mine originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed in 2016. I recently looked at it again and stand by it! Hope you like it.]...
benparis21
Apr 29, 2024
Are We Sure we're better off without Standardized Tests?
Are We Sure We’re Better Off Without Standardized Tests? Critics of standardized tests won a big victory recently, as the American Bar...
benparis21
Jun 28, 2023
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