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| CT Department of Higher Education:
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American College Testing Program |
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ACT Assessment Test Dates The ACT assessment is a national college admission examination consisting of tests in English, Reading, Mathematics, and science. Although most students take the SAT, many are increasingly taking the ACT in place of, or in addition to the SAT. The ACT is accepted by most colleges and universities in the United States, but students should check with institutions they are applying to. The ACT is administered on five national test dates in October, December, February, April, and June in test centers throughout Connecticut. The ACT also includes an excellent career planning component. For more information on the ACT,
see your
counselor or Dr.
Phillips. The ACT web site: www.act.org
Montville High School is not
a Testing Center Test Center Code for MHS: 222929 |
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The ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) The ASVAB Career Exploration Program is a comprehensive career exploration and planning program that includes a multiple aptitude test battery, an interest inventory, and various career planning tools designed to help students explore the world of work. The ASVAB
Career Exploration Program is intended for use with students in
the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades, as well as students in post-secondary
schools. The Program provides tools, including the test battery and
interest inventory, developed by the Department of Defense to help high
school and post-secondary students across the nation learn more about
career exploration and planning. Results of the aptitude test and the
interest inventory enable students to evaluate their skills, estimate
performance in academic and vocational endeavors, and identify potentially
satisfying careers. These results are integrated with work values to
help students identify and prioritize possible career choices. Students
are encouraged to consider their own work-related values and other important
personal preferences as they explore the world of work and learn career
exploration skills that will benefit them throughout their work lives.
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| The College Board's mission
is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Each year,
the College Board serves over three million students and their parents,
23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services
in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment,
and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®,
the PSAT/NMSQT®,
and the Advanced
Placement Program® (AP®). The College Board Headquarters |
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The SAT Reasoning Test is a measure of the critical
thinking skills you'll need for academic success in college. The SAT
assesses how well you analyze and solve problems—skills you
learned in school that you'll need in college.
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Flexible
Score Reports for Fee-Waiver Eligible Students
We want to give your students
every opportunity to fulfill their dreams, go to college and to great
places beyond. Actually, we are giving them four more opportunities
with Flexible Score Reports. Do you want even more flexibility? Sure. The score reports can be ordered at any time while juniors or seniors are in high school and can be ordered on the Web, by mail or just by picking up the phone. Flexible Score Reports for Fee-Waiver Eligible Students. Because we
want to make sure your students have every chance to show colleges what
they know and what they know they can do. Go to collegeboard.com for
eligibility guidelines and for more information. |
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The Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) PSAT/NMSQT stands for Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. It's a standardized test that provides firsthand practice for the SAT Reasoning Test™. It also gives you a chance to enter National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) scholarship programs. The PSAT/NMSQT measures:
The most common reasons for taking the PSAT/NMSQT are:
PSAT/NMSQT Tests |
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| ADVANCED
PLACEMENT Through college-level AP courses, you enter a universe of knowledge that might otherwise remain unexplored in high school; through AP Exams, you have the opportunity to earn credit or advanced standing at most of the nation's colleges and universities. |
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Educational Testing Service |
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| ETS offers a broad range of assessment and learning tools to help evaluate and build the English language skills of students, employees, or individuals, and prepare them for the real-life academic or business environments that await them. TOEFL: (Test of English as a Foreign Language) The purpose of the TOEFL test is to evaluate the English proficiency of people whose native language is not English. The test is offered in two formats: Computer-based and Paper-based. On-Line TOEFL Registration: Make an appointment by calling: 1-800-GO-TOEFL (1-800-468-6335) Headquarters |
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This website is a by-product of Steve Baba, Ph.D. SAT prep teaching in Montgomery County, Maryland (Bethesda, Potomac) to Improve writing, verbal & math skills for lifelong success. The 5000 words, with brief definitions, are free for individual and classroom use. These words are also downloadable from Texas Instruments in a format for some Texas Instruments calculators. A 36-page, small-print, two-column PDF version is also downloadable for printing. |
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Make your dream college a reality.
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| Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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| SAT, ACT, GRE Prep Tests / Vocab builder Number2.com offers students access to comprehensive free online test preparation courses for the SAT, ACT, and GRE. How do we do it? Number2.com earns revenue from sponsorships and licensing. Number2.com's online test preparation courses are totally free! By creating an account you can access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to each student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more... ENROLL |
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| Peterson's has helped to connect individuals, educational institutions,
and corporations through its books, Web sites, online products, and
admissions services. Peterson's reaches an estimated 105 million consumers
annually with information about colleges and universities, career
schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training,
private secondary schools, summer opportunities, study abroad, financial
aid, test preparation, and career. Web-based products:
Online Services:
Peterson's online bookstore Peterson’s, a Nelnet Company |
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Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test In addition to screening candidates for the National Merit Scholarship Program (for juniors), it's great practice for the SAT, which contains the same types of questions. Most students take the test during October of junior year, though some students elect to take a practice run during sophomore year.
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The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators deal responsibly with the increasingly competitive and complex process of admissions to college and graduate school as well as the growing pressures of accountability. (http://www.princetonreview.com/home.asp) Test
Preparation: Demos & Free Practice Tests
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From Student.gov (Student gateway to the U.S. Government)
(http://www.students.gov/STUGOVWebApp/Public?topicID=103&operation=topic) |
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TestPrepReview.com
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Robert Harris is a writer and educator with more
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Vocab Test.com offers you, the eager student ready to learn, free vocabulary tests, which are the best way to boost your verbal skills. (http://www.vocabtest.com/)
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| Schools that do not require SAT's or ACT's | FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Schools not requiring SAT/ACT - Listings of 288 colleges which do not require SAT/ACT tests for admission. http://fairtest.org/optstate.html | |||||||||||||||||
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College Writing |
A team of more than 250 Harvard-educated writers at EssayEdge assist college, graduate, and professional school applicants with their admission essays and personal statements. (http://www.essayedge.com/) |
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| The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing This web site is for anyone who wants to write better. It's intended mainly for college students, but it has also helped lots of other people around the world learn how to write more clearly, gracefully, and effectively. (http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/) Contact Information: Professor Michael Harvey Hackett Publishing Company |
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If you want to improve your writing skills, be sure to drop by the Owl Online Writing Lab. Hosted by Purdue University, the writing lab is an online tutorial center that provides writing resources for both students and teachers. Purdue's Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ |
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Students navigating this site discover what it's like to be a college student and learn some fundamental skills that enhance their chance of success as college writers. http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/divisions/english/290/ |
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Some SAT* TipsRemember that the easiest question on the test is worth just as much as the most difficult question. Set a realistic goal and learn what you need to do to reach that goal. For example, a student who is hoping to hit the 1000 mark needs to get at least 50% of the questions right as a bare minimum. For someone hoping to reach the 1200 level, it is necessary to answer at least 70% of the questions correctly. Most students need to realize that they can reach their goal without necessarily answering all the questions on the test. Read each question at least twice before you try to answer it. Slowing down, being more careful, and doing a better job on the questions that are within your "range" is a much better strategy than racing through the test in an attempt to answer all of the questions. Use the process of elimination. It is usually easier to come up with the correct answer if you first get rid of any answer choices that you know are wrong. In those cases in which you have eliminated some of the choices but are still uncertain about your final answer, just make your best educated guess and move on. The SAT* is designed to include a "guessing penalty" and therefore penalizes random guessing. It does, however, richly reward educated guessing. On sentence completion questions, look for key "signal" words or clues that can help you better understand what the sentence is trying to say. When you run into unknown vocabulary words, look for any prefixes, suffixes or roots that just may help you make a better guess about what the word actually means. On analogy questions, first form a short sentence that accurately expresses the most fundamental, basic relationship between the two key terms. Then see which of the five pairs of answer choices best fits this same relationship. On the reading comprehension sections, be sure to mark the passages
for main ideas as you go along. Make use of the line references to hone
in on those areas of the passage that contain the answers to the questions.
It is almost always better to go back and check than to try to recall
the answer from your first reading of the passage. While the order of
difficulty of the other sections of the SAT* goes from easier to harder,
be aware that the order of difficulty of the reading questions is mixed. |
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| SAT
Vocabulary Building by Dr. Steve Baba You do not need to learn every word in the dictionary to improve your SAT score. Every bone in your body has a name, but the names of your bones will not be on the SAT for two reasons. It would give an unfair advantage to students interested in human anatomy, and the question would be too difficult. Just as easy questions that everyone can answer will not be on the test, questions that no one can answer will also not be on the test for the same reason; they do not measure anything since everyone would get the same score. There are about 10,000 words that are likely to show up on the SAT - other words are too hard or too easy. While 10,000 words is a lot, you probably know half of the words already. Also, many of the words are related to each other through common roots such as subsonic and supersonic. If you know what supersonic means, you should be able to figure out what subsonic means and vice versa. Five or ten hours of vocabulary work cannot compare to a lifetime of studious vocabulary building, but all is not lost. You can review, remember and clarify words you once knew and learn a few new words. Unless you have a photographic memory, you will not be able to memorize 1000 new words from a list in a few hours. What you can do is review words that you barely remember, and a few of the new words may stick. If you are tempted to skip vocabulary building because there are too many words, just remember that you don’t need to know all the words to answer vocabulary questions correctly. Consider the following sentence completion question. Because of his _____ and effort, John Doe was a success. Even without understanding xyyxxyx, you can rule out all of the other answers - as long as you know 4 of the 5 words - and answer the question correctly. Vocabulary words are on the SAT, GRE and other standardized tests for a reason - people with better vocabularies perform better in college and later in life. If your vocabulary is weak, you will understand less. Your ability to express yourself is limited by your vocabulary - if your vocabulary is weak, you will be understood less. If you overuse simplistic words, such as "cool" or "great," people will be unimpressed. Even if you are a computer science genius, other computer science geniuses with better verbal skills will be hired and promoted ahead of you. If you improve your vocabulary, you will (1) improve your SAT score,
(2) enter a better college, (3) earn better grades and learn more in
college and (4) perform better in your career. |
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Employers Use SAT Scores to Rate Job Applicants The role of standardized testing in college admissions is a hot topic
in education circles. But should a student's SAT score have any bearing
on their future employment? Many businesses are now using SAT scores
as another way to rate a job applicant's potential to succeed in the
workplace. |
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