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Brilliant insights and groan-inducing witticisms from the smart folks at 1600.io, the best SAT prep support resource on the planet. We offer the top-rated live and on-demand SAT® instruction on the Internet, including expert explanations of 4,000 real SAT questions, live classes, and much more.
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
5M ago
The set of extreme pressures that students are subjected to during the entire college preparation process – from their parents, their peers, society at large, and themselves – can terribly warp kids' picture of the road ahead and trigger totally unnecessary fear and anxiety. Rather than ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
5M ago
“‘Repetition is the mother of all learning’...repeat about 20 SAT practice tests and you will be on your way to the top 2% globally” The sentiment above, expressed by a student and based on the old Latin saw “repetitio mater studiorum,” is nearly universal. But it’s also wrong ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
5M ago
In 2020, we witnessed the skyrocketing prevalence of a vital decision point in the college application process due to the rise in test-optional admissions policies: Should I submit my SAT score? There had always been some colleges that were test-optional, but they were the exception, and that group ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
6M ago
Digital SAT | SAT If you’re at all familiar with the digital SAT, you know that it’s section-adaptive: everyone gets a first module in each of the two major topics (English and Math) and then, depending on the performance in that first module, the student is given either a harder or an easier second module ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
6M ago
College Admissions | Digital SAT | SAT Not a day goes by without a parent anxiously asking on social media whether their child should submit their SAT score to a test-optional college. There are always a flood of confident-sounding responses offering seemingly authoritative and logical answers, but in our analysis, these answers (unless ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
6M ago
Digital SAT | SAT | SAT Reading | SAT Writing and Language Lots of students have inadequate vocabularies, so they struggle on the SAT with both comprehending reading questions and with selecting correct answers to vocabulary-centered writing questions. This deficiency is almost completely correlated with, and caused by, not reading very much; nearly all words ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
1y ago
SAT | SAT Writing and Language tl;dr: The highest scorers don’t need to memorize and apply grammar and punctuation rules to ace the SAT writing questions, and you might be able to approach the SAT the same way they do. Though nearly all students who are preparing for the SAT are told that they need to memorize grammar and ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
1y ago
DIgital SAT | SAT | SAT Writing and Language One of the types of questions you’ll see on the Digital SAT’s English (reading/writing) section can be classified as representing what we call “Notes” questions. This new style of question, which is primarily a writing question (though it also relies on reading comprehension in ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
1y ago
DIgital SAT | SAT | SAT Writing and Language The Digital SAT checks your knowledge of how and when to use the possessive form of a noun or pronoun, when to use the singular or plural form, and where to put an apostrophe, if one is required. The Digital SAT questions in this category seem to only come in two very rigidly defined formats, each of ..read more
The 1600.io SAT Prep Blog
1y ago
SAT | SAT Reading We say it all the time: the primary mechanism for improving reading comprehension is reading. Here's what one of our students reported about the results of taking our advice: [1600.io] is right: if you want to improve your EBRW score, you NEED to read more. I read a book a week for 1-1/2 years and ..read more