On the Reading sections of both the ACT and SAT , test-takers encounter a fair number of vocabulary-in-context questions. As you prepare for either test, practice these three techniques to ...

While students may perceive that summer is here to stay, schools have tentative start dates on the calendar, and the 2024-2025 academic year is imminent. For many, one of the most dreaded but ...

The College Board recently announced a shift in how the SAT will gauge students’ talent for vocabulary. The days when a commitment to flash cards could get young people a good score are coming to an ...

Graduating seniors can throw their flash cards on the celebratory bonfire next year. When students sit down to try their pencils at the redesigned SAT in spring 2016, the questions about vocabulary ...

The standardized test that's been giving America's college-bound teenagers nightmares since the 1920s is getting a makeover. On Wednesday, the College Board offered new details on changes to its SAT.

Study aid Flocabulary puts the definitions to SAT and GRE vocabulary words into hip-hop rhymes. The words are used in real-world contexts, and the definitions are right in the lyrics. Better yet, we ...

NEW YORK — In the new SAT, analyzing a scatterplot chart on Florida manatees and citing evidence to back up answers will trump knowledge of arcane vocabulary. Draft questions released Wednesday by the ...

On several occasions in the past year, David Coleman, the president of the College Board, which administers the SAT, has suggested that changes need to be made to the vocabulary tested on the exam. In ...

“SAT test preparation” is a phrase guaranteed to evoke a mixture of horror, anxiety, and boredom in even the most diligent high school student. Mobile game developer Pixelberry Studios, however, ...

Generations of students have walked out of the SAT college entrance exam in frustration, shaking their heads at the vocabulary words they never used before – and probably would never use again. That’s ...