When it comes to the SAT essay, the College Board is very helpful—they always use exactly the same format for the SAT essay, give you exactly the same directions, and ask you to include exactly the same kind of information in your essay. Because this never changes, you’ll know the directions ahead of time and […]
How is vocabulary tested on the SAT? If you took the PSAT prior to October 2015 or the SAT prior to March 2016, you are no doubt familiar with the fill-in-the-blank style of SAT vocabulary question (also known as the “Sentence Completion”) that was a mainstay on the SAT since 1946. Times are changing, however, […]
Three months is a solid amount of time to prep for the ACT. With 3 months, you will be able to spread out your studying and have ample time to work to master concepts tested on the ACT that may be unfamiliar at the start. Studying for the ACT can be a daunting task. The […]
Follow this 1-week SAT Study Plan to learn about the SAT, find quick ways to improve your score, and build your test-taking endurance. This plan assumes you have about five hours over the weekend and 90 minutes each weeknight to spend on SAT prep, but feel free to adjust it to fit your schedule. The […]
Americans enthusiastically supported Western expansion in hopes of finding new economic opportunities. The philosophy of “Manifest Destiny” emerged as motivation for this westward migration. America’s expansionist philosophy extended into foreign policy as well, as evidenced by conflict over the Oregon territory with Britain and involvement in the Mexican-American War. The Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska […]
The GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) provides clear instructions on how you should plan and write your essay. Kaplan students learn these instructions long before Test Day and do not waste precious testing time reading them while the clock ticks. Kaplan GMAT students learn the Kaplan Method for AWA and the Kaplan template for structuring […]
It’s important to keep in mind for all Reading Comprehension questions that just because an answer choice is reasonable, true, or mentioned in the passage, does not mean it is necessarily correct. Always ask yourself: which answer choice best addresses the specific question being asked? Look to eliminate answer choices that are outside the scope […]
Take a few minutes to review GMAT Reading Comprehension question types and strategies in detail. Then, try out your skills on this high level GMAT Reading Comprehension passage and questions. Give yourself about 10-20 minutes to complete the passage and questions, not forgetting to sufficiently analyze the passage. Once you have finished, check your analysis and answers with ours to […]
Some tougher GMAT Quantitative questions will require you to know the formulas for set theory, presenting two or three sets and asking various questions about them. To refresh, the union of sets is all elements from all sets. The intersection of sets is only those elements common to all sets. A classic GMAT setup involves […]
It’s 3 a.m. and you’re still studying. Sweaty fingers turn the pages of your textbook as your heart tries to bust out of its chest-jail. In a daze, you scan the same dull paragraph four times before you realize that you aren’t actually reading the text. Your head is pounding and you cannot concentrate as […]