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Changes to the ACT in 2025

As of April of 2025, the ACT will have two major changes:1. The duration of the test will be shortened from 3 hours to 2 hours.2. The Science section will become optional. One of the

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Test Anxiety

Students can prepare for a test for hours and hours. But test anxiety can make it difficult to excel on a test. If you have test anxiety for the SAT, ACT, PSAT, GRE, GMAT, SSAT,

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24 Ways To 100s of More Points

Feeling Overwhelmed? Get an SAT or ACT Coach Your Score Booster™ SAT and ACT lessons make test preparation fun and productive. A Your Score Booster™ tutor or instructor will… Offer a diagnostic test and a

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Math Secret – Exponent

Your Score Booster (YSB) is the only SAT and ACT preparation company offering The PointsBooster® Method, which is demonstrated to boost scores hundreds of points. The exclusive method offers the SAT secrets in detailed lesson plans

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10 Tips for Choosing the Best Tutor

Make sure your tutor… … Makes you complete a diagnostic test before you begin preparation … Uses the initial diagnostic to customize the preparation to you. Let’s say you get 65% of the question right.

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Math Secret – Absolute

For all integers , |-b| is equivalent to which of the following: (A) b (B) -b (C) √(b2) (D) -|b| (E) -(-b) The correct answer is C. Wait! You object. The absolute value of anything

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Secret Portrait

Suppose you were given an assignment to draw a portrait that has one head, two eyes , one nose, one mouth, two ears, and hair (optional).Based on the requirements… Which portrait is better? The Answer

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ACT or SAT: What’s the Difference?

That’s a great question. Universities accept both exams and don’t care which one you take. Determining which test to take will vary from student to student. We can give students diagnostics on both exams to see which test

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