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How to Use the ACT®/SAT® Concordance Table (& Why It Is So Useful)

From Visit to Acceptance: Mastering College Visits and Demonstrated Interest

How to Choose the Right College: Free Tools to Simplify the Process

Top 6 Focus Areas to Boost Your SAT Score in the Final Week

Building a Competitive Edge: How Colleges View Rigor & Class Schedules

Understanding the Self-Reported Student Academic Record (SSAR/SRAR): A Guide for Students and Families

The Changing Landscape of College Admissions: What You Need to Know for 2025

Why Test Prep Still Matters for Top Students—and Their Futures

A Tutor’s Dispatch from the December SAT

Crack the Code: How to Use the Common Data Set to Boost Your College Admissions Strategy

Demystifying Test-Optional: What It Really Means for You

SAT Prep Showdown: When to Choose a Specialist Tutor Over AI—and Vice Versa

Dreaming Big: A Student's Journey to Stony Brook's Elite Pre-Med Program

How an SAT Score Can Open Unexpected Doors

Maximizing Your College Admissions Potential with the Right Academic Factors: Grades and Curriculum Strength

Crafting Your College Application: A Recipe for Success

Why Students Struggle With SAT® Math

Part three of our college essay series - Edit!

The New ACT: What You Need to Know

Part two of our college essay series - Execute!

No, You're Not a "Bad Test Taker"

So You Got Your June SAT Scores Back. Here's What NOT to Do.

Part one of our college essay series - Envision!

Overcoming 2024-25 Financial Aid Challenges: Key Lessons and Insights

Moving Beyond Reach, Match, Safety in College Admissions

The SAT & ACT: Gateways to Opportunity

Why You Should Be Taking Full-Length Practice Tests
6 Remarkable Programs & Colleges That Tend To Get Overlooked

Swing at the Slow Pitches

So You Got Your March SAT Scores Back. Here's What NOT to Do.

The Key to Understanding SAT/ACT Passages? Read Like a 10-Year-Old. (Yes, really.)

Method Learning in the Periodicals
Is Testing Really "Optional"?
Your Guide to High School Acceleration
Crafting Your Narrative: A New Year's Guide to Strengthening Your College Resume
Major Decisions: A Guide to Choosing a College Major
The Hidden Truth: Why Students Underreport Their Activities on College Applications

Navigating the Path to Higher Education: Financial Aid & Scholarships

Overlooked Aspects of the College Search: Beyond Academics

Some of Our Most Popular YouTube and TikTok Shorts

When It Comes to College Essays, What are Schools Looking For?

The Answer to Supplemental Essay Stress: Making a Schedule

The Top 3 Things To Understand The True Cost of Attending College Before Applying

Insights into Test Optional from a Recent College Fair

How to Take Control of the College Visit

Building Your Resume Through MOOCs and ChatGPT

The Most Common Digital SAT Math Topics: Part 2

The Most Common Digital SAT Math Topics: Part 1
The Power of Desmos on the Digital SAT Math Section

The Digital SAT’s Math: Taking a Glance at What’s Changing

The Digital SAT’s Grammar Questions: A Deep Dive

A Year-End Message from Method Learning

The Digital SAT's Changes to the Reading: A Deep Dive

Distribution of ACT Math Questions

Will Taking the ACT/SAT Help Students Get Admitted To College?

We Need to Teach Our Students Financial Literacy

Just What Is Going on With College Admissions?

Does Test-Optional Really Mean Test-Optional?

4 Common ACT Mistakes to Avoid

6 Ways To Be Ready For The Day Of The Test

How Casual English Hurts Your ACT/SAT Score

Digital Natives Become Digital Guinea Pigs: How The Class of 2025 Should Think About the Digital SAT

The Digital SAT: What We Know

How To Use an Official Score Report for Targeted Test Prep in Methodize

Maximizing the Value of a Common ACT Math Strategy

The Single Best Way to Become a Stronger Reader

Is PSAT Prep Really Necessary?

What's the Difference between the PSAT and the SAT?

8 Tips for the ACT English Section

ACT and SAT Myths and Misconceptions

How to Prepare for the ACT Math Section

An important difference between the ACT and SAT

How to Outsmart Reading Questions

An Update to the ACT Reading Section

Understanding Important Changes To Our Program After July 15th

Method Learning: More Than Just Test Prep

When to Start Preparing for the ACT and SAT

What is a Good ACT or SAT Score?

How Parents Can Help Their Kids Prepare for the ACT and SAT

Which Test Do I Take?

Food For Thought: The Best Foods to Eat Before a Test

7 Things Parents Need To Know About the ACT and SAT

What are the ACT and SAT Experimental Sections?

Read Your Way to a Better Score!

The Benefits of Academic Coaching

Sophomore Year: How to Prepare for College Applications

Know the SAT Format to Improve Your Score

MTP Spotlight —Naomi Pryor and Andy Brown, Greenville (AL) High School

Wording to Look For and Be Observant Of On Grammar Sections

[Test Tip Tuesday] Make Your Time on Math Sections Count

Winning the Battle Against Boring Reading Passages

Test Tip Tuesday: Fun with Prepositions

Italics on the ACT: A Friend, Not a Foe

College Board Updates on the SAT Essay and Subject Tests

The Art of Standardized Test Taking

SAT & ACT: Creating a Test Prep Plan

December Spotlight —Barbara Conner, Director of College Counseling, Foxcroft School

Method Learning's Values

How to Help Your Son or Daughter Score Higher on the ACT & SAT

5 Tips to Improve Test Scores and Save Thousands on College

Improving Asynchronous Instruction in the Age of Remote Learning

What a Test Prep Expert Advises for the Class of 2023

What a Test Prep Expert Advises for the Class of 2022 (Updated Dec 2020)

SAT No Calculator and Calculator Math: A Distinction Without [Much of] a Difference

October Spotlight —Evan Wessler, VP of Education, Method Test Prep

Test Tip Tuesday: How to Handle Lowest Common Denominator Questions on the No-Calculator Section of the SAT

September Spotlight—Andrew Peterson, Math Teacher, Heschel School (NY) *Formerly Method Test Prep

Test Tip Tuesdays: Annotating the Reading Sections of the ACT and SAT

Yield

What are the TIR and the QAS, and How can they Help Students?

How Method Test Prep Will Help Students Prep This Fall

Why You Should be Skeptical of Score Increase Guarantees

Math Mise en Place

Test Tip Tuesday: No Calculator Math - When Close Enough is Good Enough

Test Tip Tuesday: How to Approach Sentence Ordering Questions

Five Tips for Preventing Careless Errors on the ACT and SAT

Doing More With Method Test Prep: Evaluation and Full-Length Tests

Test Tip Tuesdays: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable on the ACT Science Section

SAT & ACT Math: One Problem, Three Ways

QuestBridge National College Match Program

What to Do Before Your SAT or ACT

July Spotlight—Montgomery Hinton, Rankin Public Schools (MS)

What Users Need To Know About The New Method Test Prep Year Beginning July 15

Test Tip Tuesday: How Hamlet can Help Students on the ACT and SAT

Doing More With Method Test Prep: The Vocabulary Builder

This Summer, Conquer the College Essay!

Updates on New ACT Options

4 Ways to Stay Updated on SAT Changes

May Spotlight—Kyla Williams, Student, Uniondale (NY) HS Class of 2021

A Short Letter to Rising Juniors

4 Ways to Stay Updated on the ACT

ACT Test Site Closures for the June Exam

Priority Registration Open for SAT

Test-Optional Does Not Mean Test-Blind

What a Test Prep Expert Advises for the Class of 2022

What a Test Prep Expert Advises for the Class of 2021

7 Things Parents Need To Know About the ACT and SAT

Important ACT and SAT Information for Students

Why You Should Start Using Method Test Prep’s Web-Based Program Today

A note to our Method Test Prep community

How I Learned to Love Online Tutoring 2020

Schools Make Contingency Plans in the Event of Closures

How Parents Can Help Kids Prep for the upcoming SAT or ACT 2020

February Spotlight—Alanna Johnson, English Teacher, West Babylon High School

January Spotlight—Todd Winch, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction at Levittown Public Schools

December Spotlight—Lisa Michael, Dawson Summer Initiative

Getting Started - Everything You Need to Start Preparing for the ACT® and SAT®

November Spotlight—Barbara Miller, College Planning PhD

October Spotlight—Kalyn Hollatz, Miami East High School, Casstown, OH

September Spotlight—All of You!

August Spotlight — Kristen Miller, College Bound and Ready

July Spotlight — Jennifer Lake, Epic Charter Schools

Make the Most of Online Test Prep - Podcast

QAS Goes Digital

3 Tricks To Get Better Grades in the new school year.

June Spotlight—Britt Freitag, Blair Academy

How to Use MTP's Self-Paced ACT/SAT Prep Program Over the Summer

Why You Might Want to Take the ACT or SAT Even if Your Dream College Doesn’t Require It

Common SAT Mistakes

May Spotlight—Frank Luisi, Oceanside High School

5 ACT Myths

Method Test Prep April Spotlight

What Are the SAT Subject Tests?

What You Need to Bring to the SAT and ACT

What to Do Before Your SAT or ACT

Method Test Prep Spotlight

How Do You Prepare for the SAT?

How to Create a Study Schedule for the SAT or ACT

Do Colleges Prefer the ACT or SAT?

Common Questions about the SAT

ACT Math: Plug and Play...By the Rules

How a Tutor Thinks Through an ACT English Sentence Ordering Question

Achieving Academic Goals Through Habit Change: Part II

Achieving Academic Goals Through Habit Change

Key Tips for Midterm Success

Why You Should Retake the ACT/SAT for a Higher Score

2018 Reflections: This Year in SAT/ACT Events

Key Changes to This Year's PSAT Score Report

SAT & ACT Math: One Problem, Three Ways

Method Test Prep Facts and Figures

Of Snack Food Economics and Subject-Verb Agreement

Where Is Your PSAT Program?

Should Sophomores Take the PSAT?

Service to Others

Yield

Math Mise en Place

Great Effort Leads to Success and Handsome Rewards for Rankin County Students

In Accordance with Concordance

Background Noise

Computer-Based ACT Testing – Coming to a Country Near You

The Lowest Common Denominator of SAT No-Calculator Math: Least Common Denominator

Printing Quizzes From Inside Method Test Prep

SAT Subject Tests – Five Big Mistakes

How to Avoid Traps on ACT Reading Questions

MTP At WSCA 2018

The [W]hole Story: Donut Underestimate the Power of Practice

SAT & ACT: Creating a Test Prep Plan
Using The Redesigned Method Test Prep Homepage
