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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
Here we go, folks—another graphs quiz to entertain/torture you. Good luck! Note: This quiz will be available to everyone until 11/25/14. After that, it will be available only to registered Math Guide Owners. If you own a Math Guide, make sure you forward your receipt or other proof of purchase to mike@pwnthesat.com so that you can...
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but I’ve been itching to give away a Math Guide for a while, and I woke up with this question in my head, so I figured I’d let ‘er rip. Full contest rules are here, but the important rules are below: You must live in (more…)
Note: This quiz will be available to everyone until 10/31/14. After that, it will be available only to registered Math Guide Owners. If you own a Math Guide, make sure you forward your receipt or other proof of purchase to mike@pwnthesat.com so that you can access all the exclusive Math Guide Owners stuff on this...
How’s everyone else doing on this quiz? ...
This is just a quick post to let you know that finally, at long last, the 3rd edition of the Math Guide is available now at Amazon.com. It’s pretty cool—it contains two all new chapters, some new drill questions, and a bunch of other small updates that I think are cool but that no one else is likely to (more…)
It almost never fails when I’m working with a new student that the first time a question involving remainders rears its ugly head, we need to spend some time talking about what remainders are and how to find them. This happens fairly early in the process with me, intentionally. I always start with new students (more…)
I made a video today that I hope will help you understand something I get asked about an awful lot. The SAT loves asking a particular kind of Venn diagram question—not so common that it appears on every test, but common enough that high scorers need to know it. The test writers keep coming back (more…)
How’s everyone else doing on this quiz?
How’s everyone else doing on this quiz? ...
A quick post today to focus your attention on something I think is really cool about this new iteration of PWNtheSAT.com—your stats page. You can reach it from any page on the site as long as you’re logged in—just to the right of your username in the top right corner. Once you’re in, there’s a (more…)
