The digital SAT is an adaptive test, which means that scoring is a lot more complicated than it used to be. Wondering how it works?
Brenna O’Neill, President of Test Innovators, joined Mike Bergin and Amy Seeley on theTests and the Restpodcast for an in-depth discussion on digital SAT scoring. Listen to the episode to learn how multistage adaptive scoring works on the digital SAT, why some questions are worth more than others, and what these changes mean for students on test day.
Think of the last time you took a big test. What were you thinking about during the test? Did you feel good or bad during the exam? When thinking about the upcoming test, what are your thoughts and feelings about it? Have these thoughts and feelings motivated you to prepare...
Test preparation is known to increase performance on high-stakes tests, but how does it help with test anxiety? Research has shown that exposure, habit formation, skills development, and online preparation are all effective methods to reduce test anxiety, and each method is linked to test preparation.
Timing is everything. This age-old saying is applicable to so many things, especially standardized testing. One of the main purposes of standardized tests is to compare a large group of students, and the timing restriction is a critical component of achieving that comparison. The clock may seem like an unforgiving...
The Verbal Reasoning section of the ISEE is designed to assess vocabulary, including the ability to identify synonyms and complete sentences with missing parts.
Fast Facts
First and shortest section of the ISEE
Lower Level: 20 minutes with 34 questions
Middle and Upper Levels: 20 minutes with 40 questions
Made up...
2019 was a major year of growth for Test Innovators. To date, we have helped 135,000+ students, and those students have answered more than 20 MILLION questions on our platform. To support this growth, our team nearly doubled in size, so we can continue to enhance student learning.
There’s a lot of information circulating about the new digital SAT—some accurate and some not so accurate. So we wanted to address a few myths about the digital SAT.
You might feel pressure to do more in the final week. But if you’ve been preparing consistently, you don’t need to ramp up the pace. You’ve already put in the work.
Knowing what to expect on a test is one of the most important elements of preparation. This guide focuses specifically on the Math section of the digital SAT. We’ll go over the structure of the section, give an overview of the content tested, and discuss some key strategies to help...
The Mathematics Achievement (MA) section of the ISEE Test is intended to reflect curriculum related questions, in contrast to the Quantitative Reasoning section which is intended to measure students’ reasoning abilities.
