Time for another Proving Grounds installment, folks. Remember, these quizzes are available for one week for everybody, and then they’re for Math Guide owners only. “How can I get to be a Math Guide owner?” you ask?! Well, either you buy one right from me, or you forward me your receipt from some place like...
Here’s the second installment of the Proving Grounds quizzes, which are available for everyone to try for one week before they become exclusive to Math Guide owners. A little parabola-heavy this week, but then again, who doesn’t love parabolas? Good luck! Mechanical Calculators image By Ezrdr (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons...
Below is the first in a series of tough quizzes for the new SAT that will be available to everyone for a week, and then only available to Math Guide owners. If you want access to all these quizzes long term, well, you might want to grab a Math Guide. They’re on sale now, and...
I never did a post for this survey at the time—just promoted it on social media. However, for posterity, here’s what we learned about the March SAT—the first of the new format—when it happened.
I’ve received a few questions in my email asking about the Beta I’m running (full info here). Specifically, people want to know what they get if they sign up. I figured that the best way to answer that question is just to post one of the chapters up here in public. If you join the Beta, you (more…)
The new SAT will occasionally ask you questions about experimental design—whether the results of an study conducted by some students, for example, can be generalized to an entire population, or whether some experimental intervention has a causal impact. These questions will not be rocket science, and will not require any math at all, even though they’re in (more…)
As I said in my last post, I’m busy working on the new edition of the Math Guide for the new SAT. Here’s another quick pair of graph questions for you to try out. You don’t need to be a site member to take this little quiz, but I’d encourage it. Site membership is free, (more…)
I’m in full-on writing mode for the next edition of the Math Guide, which will of course be aimed at the new SAT that debuts March 2016 (and the new PSAT, which debuts in October of this year). The new test is pretty different, so it’ll be a major overhaul—some chapters in the current guide (more…)
The design of the new SAT is going to make a particular kind of cheating VERY tempting to students in the heat of the moment. I have to assume it wasn’t just a random choice to put the sections in the order they’re in, but I can’t imagine why this particular decision was made.
Hello Mike, I want to know about the new SAT of 2016. I am in high school and will be giving the SAT in 2016. Is there any thing(except without calculator section) or topic of math section that is new and can I start practicing for the new SAT now? And is new “writing” section like improving paragraph questions. I want to go for a good university or an ivy, do you recommend giving the essay section?
Thanks.
This kind of thing is going to be featured much more heavily on the new SAT than it is on the current one, so I figured I’d put a quick quiz together. Struggling with any of these? Discuss them in the comments! For each of the items below, choose the mathematical statement that is equivalent to (more…)
The College Board has released, at long last, its first full practice test since announcing sweeping changes to the PSAT and SAT last year. You may now finally, if you’re one of a small group of merry misfits that actually enjoy this kind of thing, sit down for 3 hours and take a prototype test (more…)
Even though very little information has been released to date—not even a full practice test yet!—I’m hard at work trying to get a head start on the next iteration of the Math Guide for the new SAT (coming about a year from now—March 2016). When I write questions, I have a very hard time keeping (more…)
The five questions in this short quiz would all, I’m fairly sure, fit into the “Heart of Algebra” category that will be so heavily emphasized on the new SAT. Obviously, without even a full practice test released yet, it’s tough to know for sure if I’ve got the style right, but based on what I’ve (more…)
College Board released a bunch of sample questions this week for the new PSAT and SAT, which will make their debuts in October 2015 and March 2016, respectively. Over the next few days, I’ll be making posts working through each question, a few at a time, and commenting on them when I feel like I have (more…)
