Every high school has its own (sometimes convoluted) system for calculating students’ grade point averages. Some schools in Northern New Jersey, such as IHA and Holy Angels, use a 100-point scale; many use a weighted scale that reaches 4.8; and some even use a 12-point scale (looking at you,...
Are we moving towards or away from standardized testing? Are we more reliant than ever before, or less so?
The answer is unequivocally yes.
I know that feels like a flawed or misleading answer, but it’s right as rain. We are simultaneously falling in and out of love with standardized testing.
Success on test day includes many, many factors. We will outline many of the logistically clever things to do to best ensure a high probability of success, but let’s begin with a broader, more overarching philosophical point that runs counter to popular understanding: the human mind cannot truly multitask.
Did you know that the combination of Math & Music is one of the most common double majors among undergraduate students? Or that the same part of the brain is utilized for each discipline?
This common ground is created by the fact that music is built on a number of...
SAT or ACT?
Colleges and universities around the U.S. now accept either of these two standardized tests without preference for one or the other.
So which one should your son or daughter take? Let this list give you a bit of guidance: