Here’s to hoping Score Day is your day. But if it’s not…here’s to dusting yourself off, and getting right back on the horse to make sure your next Score Day is much better. Hopefully, I can help! Take a look around. Here are a few places you might like to start: All things SAT math (more…)
Keep your composure. Get a good night’s sleep tonight, eat a good breakfast tomorrow, and walk in there with your head held high. You’ve worked hard, now reap the rewards.
Sometimes, you make mistakes. I don’t care who you are, what your GPA is, or what your SAT scores are. Sometimes, you make mistakes. If you’re the kind of student who is able to finish sections before time is called, it’s pure hubris not to use that opportunity to check your work. An anecdote: yesterday (more…)
Things have been quiet here, but blowing up over at the Q&A site. Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten how to write longer posts. I was just on vacation. I’m back now. And I promise to stop peppering you with posts about my book. After this one. While I was gone, some cool things happened that (more…)
There are a lot of things I’m good at, but javascript is not one of them. When I first started this site, I MacGyver’d together some code to do a regular expression search of the content and replace vocab words with red links to definitions, but as the site has grown and other important elements (more…)
Source. You know how when people are trying to raise money, they’ll make big fake thermometers and then color them in as they get closer to their goals? I’m sure you’ve seen these things around. They’re ubiquitous. I was just thinking the other day how it’s not a bad idea to approach the SAT with (more…)
I just listened to a Planet Money story that I wanted to share with you. It’s a 4:26 long discussion of risk aversion and how some experts see it distorting the American housing market. I’m not recommending it because I think you need to be thinking about the housing market, though. I’m posting this because (more…)
As I see it, SAT prep has two main objectives: Discover the most efficacious ways to solve common problem types. Become proficient at recognizing opportunities to use those techniques in the wild. It’s important that you devote equal time and effort to both. In other words, if you only take practice tests repeatedly, or if (more…)
Disclaimer: This post is intended as pragmatic advice, not rebuke. Please don’t misconstrue anything herein as nastiness. This blog is still a big love fest, and any appearance otherwise is simply a result of a temporary inarticulateness. Promise. I don’t like to talk about it in real life because honestly nobody wants to hear about (more…)
October SAT scores are out today, and that always means a prodigious increase in traffic to this site. Unfortunately, most of you first-timers are probably not here because you’re ecstatic about your SAT scores. If that’s the case, I’m genuinely sorry to hear it. I hope I can help you turn that around. Aside from the (more…)
John Carpenter. Smart dude. I haven’t used this space for this kind of thing before, but I used to love posting interviews of artists I liked back in the day when I was a music blogger, and after I read John Carpenter’s Going Geek: What Every Smart Kid (and Every Smart Parent) Should Know About (more…)
If you’ve been wondering why things have been a bit quieter around here for the past few weeks, there are 3 reasons: I’ve been scrambling to finish this book so that I can ship it off to print. I’ve been trying to keep up with all the great questions I’ve been getting at qa.pwnthesat.com. I (more…)
I’m moving this week, which is one of the purest forms of torture. My internet access has been spotty and will probably continue to be so, so there probably won’t be any new content on here until the Weekend Challenge on Friday. I will do my darndest to get one of those up this week, (more…)
I’ve only been at this a few months, but if there’s one thing that site analytics have shown me reliably over that short time it’s that traffic booms in the days following an SAT score release. Consider this your official welcome, June SAT score recipients! I hope, sincerely, that you’re pleased as punch with your (more…)
