SAT prep.
- The College Board
- Free SAT Practice, including a complete test
ACT prep.
- ACT, Inc.
- Free ACT Practice, including a complete test
Other SAT/ACT/academic resources.
- My specialty is tutoring. If you need expert advice on college admissions, please visit AGM College Advisors. Ray Anderson, Randy McKnight, and Steve Garman are three educators with almost 100 years of experience between them.
- If you live outside of northern VA and need help with math, then I can recommend Rebecca Zook, an excellent online math tutor who is sincerely dedicated to her craft. She has a pretty neat education blog, too.
- College Prowler, a great website for comparing the SAT and ACT scores at different colleges. Just search for a college, click on the "Statistics" tab, and scroll down to find the 25th-75th percentile SAT and ACT scores of last year's freshman class.
- A handy list of colleges that "superscore" the ACT (i.e. they pick and choose your best subject scores from different tests to make your composite score). Only a few of them do.
- A list of colleges that "superscore" the SAT. The vast majority of them do.
- A way to check whether a particular college requires the optional Writing test for the ACT. Just type the full name of the college in the search box provided.
- A useful list of schools that require or recommend that you submit SAT Subject Tests with your application.
- A list of test-optional schools, in case you want to opt out of the standardized-testing industry.
- Khan Academy, a collection of easy-to-follow video tutorials on pretty much every subject under the sun. I'm pretty sure he's going to put me out of work someday.
History and criticism.
- An in-depth history of the SAT, featuring interviews with all the major players. It's from a few years ago, but it's very informative.
- An eye-opening speech by Richard Atkinson, former President of the University of California, on why the SAT and the ACT are kinda lame.
- The Big Test by Nicholas Lemann, the definitive account of the development of the standardized testing industry.
- The Mismeasure of Man, an exposé by the late Stephen Jay Gould of the pseudo-science used through the ages to construct and measure "intelligence". A good book.
