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Why Standardized Tests Really Matter

November 11, 2019 By Brian Caskey

Standardized tests like the ACT and SAT are more than an admissions formality – they can also lead to scholarships!

Very few high school students welcome the opportunity to sit for standardized tests. Instead, tests like the ACT and SAT are often met with annoyance, dread or indifference. However, standardized exams have certain benefits.

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Spring 2020 SAT and ACT Dates Have Been Announced!

October 14, 2019 By Brian Caskey

At Biltmore Tutoring, we do lots of private tutoring and test prep. However, we have also had great success with our small group SAT and ACT test prep classes (in fact, some of our largest score increases came from class students, and especially ones who combined a class with a few private lessons to tune up with material that they needed a little one-on-one help with).

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College Board abandoning SAT ‘adversity score’

October 14, 2019 By Brian Caskey

The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant’s background to a single number, an idea that the College Board’s chief executive now says was a mistake.

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To Infinity and Beyond! Biltmore’s Mindprint Test Used by NASA

June 16, 2019 By Brian Caskey

Identical twin astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly, agreed to be studied for two years. NASA tracked changes to their genes, cognitive skills and physical and mental health to understand the impact of long duration space flight on the human body and brain. Mark stayed on Earth throughout. Scott spent a full year at the International Space Station. NASA monitored their functions before, during, and after Scott’s flight.

What’s Mindprint Got to Do with It?

Mindprint’s research partners at Penn Medicine’s Brain Behavior Lab provided the cognitive assessment for the NASA Twins Study. Yes, it’s the same assessment Mindprint makes available to students around the world to understand their cognitive development. NASA describes the assessment as “a much-needed practical, yet comprehensive cognitive test battery”

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SAT ‘adversity score’ merits a failing grade

May 21, 2019 By Brian Caskey

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Decisions about admission into college are based on a gamut of factors. Potentially among them: a student’s understanding of parabolas, perihelions and the Reconstruction — that is, his or her academic preparation and performance. But should those decisions also take into account the resourcefulness shown in learning amid challenging circumstances — say, an impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood?

The College Board thinks so, and if it had a good tool for measuring each applicant’s environment and perseverance, we’d be applauding today. But it doesn’t, so we aren’t.

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