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What's tested on the NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment

The NCLEX-RN exam is designed to challenge your ability critically think through information provided to make safe and sound judgements about patient care. If you are a student that focuses primarily on memorizing every drug, every nursing intervention, and every disease process, then you may miss the mark. However, if you are a student that […]

GMAT Reading Comprehension: Isolating Key Information

If all of us had an unlimited amount of time to answer reading comprehension questions on the GMAT, then we’d probably all do quite well; after all, the information needed to answer the questions correctly lies in the passage. The time limit on the test means we have to sift through a large amount of […]

The Night Before the ACT: 5 Tips

It’s the night before the ACT and you may have already heard that you should NOT panic. In addition to focusing on remaining calm, you can add the following to your get-an-awesome-ACT-score to-do list: First, remember there are 4 parts to the ACT test: The English section is 45 minutes long and has 75 questions. The […]

ACT English: Clarity

The ACT English test will test your ability to identify clear, concise sentences. This won’t be as easy as it sounds, as you’ll need to know rules about using the passive voice, proper noun, pronoun, and adverb agreement, among other writing conventions. Since there’s so many rules for writing, proper test prep is necessary to […]

ACT English: Prepositions Usage

The ACT English section will sometimes test your knowledge of preposition usage; knowledge is the keyword here, since you really cannot reason your way through the intricacies of preposition usage. For this reason, we often refer to preposition questions as “idiom” questions; simply put, an idiom is a recognized grammatical construction that is a rule […]

Guide to LSAT Logic Games

Logic games are an area many LSAT test-takers struggle with at first. Each game presents its own challenges and may leave the test-taker unsure of where to start. Kaplan’s five-step method for logic games increases your speed and accuracy while decreasing the stress of logic games. Once you master the Kaplan Logic Games method, you […]

GRE Reading Comprehension—Types of Questions and Tips

Reading comprehension questions on the GRE will ask you various details about long and short written passages.  For many people, the reading comprehension is the part of the test that they fear the most.  So you know what to expect on the reading comprehension portion of the test, look below to see the different types […]