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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 […]

GMAT Sentence Correction: Punctuation

GMAT Sentence Correction will test your comprehension of the sentence’s meaning as well as its grammar, style, and concision, by giving you more answer choices that are grammatically correct (but still wrong). In this series of articles, I want to explore the ways this can happen, with some example questions for you as well. First, let’s […]

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 […]