Entrance Exams

When deciding how to help improve your test scores, you may turn to all sorts of advice, courses, and consultants. But before starting to prep, you should really spend a little time deciding which test is best for you. There are two main college admission exams, the ACT and the SAT. Both the ACT and SAT are universally accepted by any college you may wish to apply. So what’s the difference? The difference is actually important and can be significant depending on what kind student you are. Lynn O’Shaughnessy of CBS News MarketWatch has an excellent post on the subject. It’s interesting. Here are some of the quick findings. If you’re a fast reader, the ACT might be better for you. If you pride yourself on a large vocabulary, then maybe you’ll do better with the SAT. Are you good at puzzles? SAT. Good memory?

With the competition to get into college growing all the time, I suppose it was inevitable the competition for all the ancillary industries would also be more competitive. Here's an article from Fortune Magazine about the competition between the College Board's SAT and the American College Testing which owns the ACT.

Here are a few more recent articles on some of the issues dealing with testing.