Exam Prep for the ACT Test: First Free Session for the English Test for My Cincinnati and Mason, Ohio, Students

We are really excited to start off our live ACT prep for those in Youtube land and for my Mason and Cincinnati, Ohio, scholars away for Christmas.

This eve's live ACT preparation (most of which being in Cincinnati) will focus on the English section, sharing the same techniques that have helped our pupils obtain up to perfect marks on their ACT tests.

A portion of the excitement has been not only our move of the test prep business office for the SAT and ACT to Cincinnati, but also the beginning of 10 years of service given by A+ Tutoring Test Preparation. We have now tutored 800 students in the South Florida and Greater Cincinnati areas!
We will begin by discussing the four different "tests" of the ACT, setting out with the English section, where we will decompose the 4 basic classifications we follow to assist our students get perfect marks.

Sure, thoughts are free.  But proven teaching can set hard-working students free!

The strategy, obviously, contains greater than four simple pieces. We will also get into sentence structure and the types of questions that overlap between the English and Reading tests.
Though the English test is perhaps one of the most challenging and rule-oriented of all the tests on the ACT, understanding how to find verbs, subjects, and any conjunctions and other parts of speech gives us the foundation for knowing each of the other rules and recognizing other grammar scenarios.

We will refer to grammatical marks, modifiers, the different elements of verbs, and parallelism to catch mistakes, as we look for accuracy and efficiency in the sentences we are presented with. Syntax will be coped with as well, as we cover main idea and inferential reasoning questions.
Please interject with any questions as we show authentic ACT questions and how we deal with them. We love to hear your feedback and wish you the very best score imaginable as you give your ACT test prep your best shot!


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ACT & SAT Tutoring Videos to be Shown on Youtube to Kick Off our 10th Anniversary: Now Moving to Office in Cincinnati

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Commemorating our 10th anniversary in SAT and also ACT preparation (most of which being in Cincinnati), A+ Tutoring/Test Preparation is happy to commemorate this celebration by distributing our finest exam preparation methods for the SAT and also the ACT test.

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Some of the excitement is the move of our test preparation program for the SAT and ACT to just north of the Queen City in beautiful Cincinnati, where we landed 2 weeks earlier. So, we are basically handing out the bank, revealing the exam preparation methods that have assisted our 800 students acquire even excellent marks on the SAT and also ACT.

We will begin by handling the different "sections" of the ACT, beginning with the English area, where we shall break down the 4 fundamental components we use to assist our students to acquire excellent test scores. The sessions, obviously, have greater than 4 simple components, however some of the process is the structure we have to develop for our scholars to successfully finish our program.

Though the English is perhaps one of the most challenging and also rule-oriented of all the examinations on the ACT, we do finish our series of steps, including the best ways to locate verbs, the subjects, and also any conjunctions that might change subject/verb or pronoun/antecedent arrangements. We go on to syntactic marks, modifiers, the different aspects of verbs, and also parallelism to capture any more mistakes, as we check for precision of language and also the shortest was to get at the idea. Of course there are main idea and also inferential thinking components we have to additionally think about. We will certainly cover all these in our first session in the course, a video that will certainly focus on the ACT English.

In the 2nd session, we will certainly be looking at the ACT Math exam. Though there is a variety of challenging problems in the ACT mathematics area, the problems on the test have particular characteristics in common, and getting ready by complying with the system we've created we have found highly efficient in getting optimal marks. But, plainly students ought to capitalize on knowing their formulas and also the classroom lessons they have imbibed in their high school to maximize their planning for the exam. We start that Math test with underlining our mathematics concepts, setting up the problems, then filling out  relationships, simplify/factoring, and then checking the operation and also substitution. It can not be emphasized sufficiently that students ought to have substantial prep work in mathematics concepts from fundamental maths to trigonometry or even pre-calculus succeed on the ACT exam preparation.

In the 3rd video lesson we will certainly be entering the Reading Comprehension exam, which is much more predictable than exactly what we discover in the English or Math examination (the substantially more content-driven examinations). When we start reading, we would like to start by underlining any context ideas in our inquiries, so we can know where and also the best ways to look for the solution. This then permits us to visit the correct part of the essay, so we can then locate the most pertinent material, underline it, and also put together those clues in order to make excellent predictions.

The Science test will certainly be the subject of our fourth video clip. In it we will certainly enter into the very same fundamental steps that we use in Reading, however we will certainly be categorizing into inferential thinking and also "discovering details" questions-- the questions that are concentrated on in the Science area. Instead of focusing on the correct part of the flow, many times we will certainly be filling in our charts, tables, and also pictures as much as possible so we can see all the relations we should.

Of course there is additionally the optional composition portion, which is its very own mark in the final score, and also we shall cover our fundamental 4 paragraph essay to any question we are given on the exam. Though there is a particular amount of feedback necessary in our test prep, our company believe we have found the above formula to be crucial in getting the very best results with the 800 students we have seen.

Our ACT mini-series will certainly be then adhered to by the steps we use to ready students for the SAT. The SAT exam preparation will certainly focus on the three fundamental sections of the exam test: Reading, Math, and also the Writing section (Grammar), however additionally the Composition, which is commonly constructed from three paragraphs.

We anticipate discussing the keys of the success we have actually had with pupils throughout Greater Cincinnati in Ohio. It hasn't already mattered where they were located: West Chester, Loveland, Mason, or Cincinnati itself, we have observed effort-taking youth with excellent potential increase their marks to sensational degrees. But the key part we have found is structure and also discipline. Simply put, students needthe clear focus of the steps just described. Kindly join us as we finish our move to Cincinnati near West Chester, OH. We look forward to it as we help young persons in Cincinnati and around the world improve their SAT and ACT exam prep.

Review for my ACT Tutoring Program in Cincinnati, Ohio

I recently received a review for our ACT test prep by Mr Will Weigand of Cincinnati as he selected us for the remedy to his son Jason's troubles on the ACT test. At the end of his senior year, Jason had already taken the ACT test a couple of times, with no in his results and still needing points for the college he was applying to. Will contacted me to assist his son master his test anxiety through private tutoring so Jason would have a program that would serve him on test day.

The step-wise technique I created helped Jason score as much as 12 points above his previous score on actual ACT tests administered in a practice form. Despite misfortune striking on test day with his calculator malfunctioning, Jason was still able to finish the last three sections of the exam with the points he was required to get intohis chosen school . Mr Weigand gives his testimonial here and Michael gives followup info should anyone desire more information about prepping for the ACT in Cincinnati.

Here's a little background for students in Mason on preparing for the ACT:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(test).

My Journey to Help Pupils to Flawless Marks in their ACT Test Prep

ACT test  prep work in Mason is not  anything I naturally thought I 'd be doing when I grew up. Though someone or some test may have informed me I might be a  instructor some day , I actually found school quite boring  as well as intimidating and couldn't wait to get out. Little did I comprehend that about 20 years later I would have a  great deal of education and a bunch of skills to help students dominate with  new skills.

Returning to Cincinnati after being a  extremely successful private tutor in South Florida , I slowly improved my tutoring circuit to now have had about 800 students total. I believe the secret is having a system. Since students more easily lose focus today than in yesteryear , they often lose track of what they are really looking for, make careless mistakes, or don't break problems down properly. All this is completely avoidable.

Sure, there are  challenging questions on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, but one can still miss one  or more questions and still get a perfect score. I tell my students that if we can learn the techniques that have helped my students into the 99th percentile, then we can worry about the last 1 %. Critical thinking is huge.

I share here a bit about how this happened and how I believe I can help student get ready for their exams, whether we at the 5 percentile mark or the 95 percentile mark, if we collaborate.

www.actstudent.org/sampletest

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SAT Sellout Postponed until 2016: When Republicans Want to Act Like Democrats

Is there a relationship between the wavering Republicans and the wavering of College Board on the SAT format?

It was a sad day when College Board starting their hasty retreat from critical thinking on the SAT. 

The test, though it did change in  2005, primarily with the addition of a writing/grammar section, seems now on the verge of amalgamating with its archrival: the ACT in its "de-emphasis of critical thinking", as one of College Board's reps put it a recent conference.

Of course this isn't the first change the SAT has ever been through. When I started tutoring the SAT in 2004, it was a bit of a dread of mine to deal with the then new English-oriented section of the SAT.  After all, I had just helped a student improve his SAT score by 300 points in two weeks, and 470 points in one month, and now I had to deal with my own greatest nemesis: grammar.  I had finished with a "D" on my English final exam as a freshman in high school, but I wasn't going to let that stop my transition to my life as a professional tutor.  Within a few short months my students were doing quite well on the new Writing section; in fact, it was soon after that I had students scoring perfectly on the PSAT, SAT, and ACT English components of those respective tests.

The way I saw it, grammar was in great disrepair in American society and College Board was stepping up to the plate to knock our infamous reputation for not speaking proper English out of the park.  After all, what better way to make students step up to the plate than to test them until they got it right? Well, with the latest murmurings from College Board (revealed in an email by the Summit Group to subscribers of tutor.com), I really can't pretend any longer. College Board is jealous.  I mean avocado green jealous.  With the ACT becoming the predominant test, with it finally being taken more by students in 2012 than those taking the SAT, the pressure was on College Board to make a decision:  toss ("de-emphasize") critical thinking skills, and add a science section to finally go completely over to the dark side, or do a better job with marketing and make the whole test process easier.  The latest round of news makes it clear what choice they made. Unfortunately, even grammarians can't be happy with the new format.

But, let's be objective for a moment:  let's argue College Board needs to stay up with the times and the ACT's cutting edge test content and format (i.e. making the essay portion of the test optional, for example).  Would it be the end of the world to make the essay on the SAT optional, and just focus more on publicizing the need for critical thinking in our society?  No, make no mistake about it, the ACT corporation's shrewd tactics of persuading several states to make the ACT a high school exit test gave a tremendous boost to the number of students taking the ACT. However, was it really necessary for College Board to start getting desperate when they started to see they were behind in the game for the first time?

I liken the whole ordeal to be much like our last presidential election in 2012.  The ACT can be likened to Mr Obama keeping a low profile until swooping in to steal the election in 2008, he didn't really have much experience in public office, but was very likable.  Able to get away with saying that there were 57 states in the USA, he might be likened to the ACT website itself, where not one of my students has been able to print of a a practice test without getting formatting errors.  Comparing Mr Romney in 2016 to the perennial SAT might be a little too kind, though. The SAT, we must admit, has been consistent for some time while Mr Romney has been plagued by vacillation throughout his career. Held out by some as a champion of the Right, Romney was criticized for flip flopping and not really taking principled stands on issues like abortion, illegal immigration, involvement in international conflicts, and even his attitude toward bank bailouts.

The College Board and the SAT, it seems to me, are now faultering in a similar way:  rearranging the decks on their titanic organization that is supposed to be buoyed up by critical thinking, they seem to be on the brink of making a decision to ditch critical thinking, the anchor of their ship, altogether (or at least give the appearance that critical thinking isn't that important after all). Many republicans stayed home in 2012 because they really didn't see Romney as standing for Republican values in an unequivocal way.  Won't the same happen in 2016 when College Board forfeits its right to call a question that really makes one think an "SAT question"?  I say stop trying to be like something else and focus on what makes you stand out as a winner in the first place. Or has critical thinking become a thing of the past?

Our start in Mason when classes were initially offered for the SAT and ACT Test

My initial working with a much younger class than I was used to begin when an Indian man first contacted me, asking if he could work for me tutoring the SAT test.  He had enough to say that I decided to meet him at Panera to talk about the tutoring.