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A few weeks ago, I received a rather panicky call from a mom – I’ll call her “Nancy” – who wanted to speak with me about test prep for her 17-year-old daughter.  She was confused about the [...]

As we noted on this blog a while back, during this school year ACT, Inc. (makers of the ACT family of tests) launched a new test called the PreACT. A few schools in our geographic footprint have [...]

Early fall is one of our busiest times of the year here at Summit, and this year has been no exception. Just about all of our free proctored practice test dates have been full, which makes sense: [...]

With school letting out for the summer, every student is entitled to a break from schoolwork.  Enjoy your free time, but remember that you most likely have some summer reading to do, too. Summer [...]

The fallacy of the “early and often” approach to standardized testing My colleagues and I at Summit are frequently invited by schools to come speak to parents and students about standardized [...]