SAT/ACT Test Tips with Huntington Learning Center

SPRINGFIELD, MAss. (Mass Appeal) - Preparing to be your best for the SAT and ACT can be a challenge.  Getting ready to take college entrance exams can include both short and long term strategies.

Deborah Alli, Executive Director at Huntington Learning Center , shared several tips.

Short-term preparation - involves learning a number of specific test-taking tips. When you understand the reasoning behind how the test questions are written, it will give you an edge in answering them. There are many different books, tapes, computer programs, school courses, and courses offered by private companies, such as Huntington, that teach these strategies for students who need to study with a crash course.

Specifically, short-term preparation involves practicing and knowing:

1.     How to relax

2.     When and how to guess

3.     What to expect on the test

4.     How to identify the easiest questions

5.     All the directions for each type of question on the test

6.     How to pace yourself

7.     Hints for answering each type of question
 

Long-term preparation - focuses on academic performance in general, not just on the test at hand. It’s what students do in high school to prepare for college, through a program of solid academic courses that build fundamental math and verbal skills ( to support maintain a high GPA). Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors all have the time to build the academic skills needed for a successful college career.  In addition, when exam time comes, you will be even better prepared.

Long-term preparation includes short-term strategies and focuses on:

1.     Reading more effectively, to comprehend what the author means as well as what the author says.

2.     Improving your vocabulary, plus learning better tools to figure out new words from the context in which they are used

3.     Developing problem-solving abilities, including ways to get started on challenging problems when you don’t know what to do.

Events at Huntington Learning Center:

Children's Night at Texas Roadhouse
Monday, January 14th
4:00PM
Crafts, games, tons of fun!

Huntington Learning Center
Five Town Plaza
352 Cooley Street
Springfield, MA

Parents who want additional information are encouraged to call the local Huntington Learning Center at 413-783-8010 or visit huntingtonhelps.com .

About Huntington Learning Center:

This simple statement is the criterion by which all decisions are made - what is best for the student guides all decisions.

Each center's director must make dozens - even hundreds - of decisions about how best to guide a student to achieve her or his goals. In every case, the criteria by which the director makes those decisions is our mission statement and our code of ethics.

These decisions involve the kind of program the director recommends, the tutor to be assigned to work with the student, the curricula to be used, the program duration, and many, many more decisions. By understanding what's best for the student, the director can make the best decision possible.