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SAT Reference Sheet: Flashcards & What's On It
The Digital SAT reference sheet holds 15 geometry formulas, available in Bluebook through both math modules. But it skips algebra, the quadratic formula, and trig — roughly 35 formulas you still have to memorize. Here's every formula on the sheet, what's missing, and how reference, formula, and cheat sheets differ.
Read articleLSAT vs MCAT: Difficulty, Scores, Cost Compared
A 172 on the LSAT and a 520 on the MCAT sit at nearly the same percentile, which reframes the whole difficulty argument. This comparison pairs the current LSAC and AAMC percentile tables side by side, adds 2026 fees and attempt caps, and corrects two things most guides still get wrong.
Read article35 Minutes, 40 Questions? Not Anymore in ACT
The reading test with 35 minutes and 40 questions is the ACT section that stopped existing in 2025; what replaced it gives you 36 questions in 40 minutes, and only 27 are scored. Inside: the current official spec, why Reading percentiles run lower than Math at the top, and the four 10-minute budgets that fit the clock.
Read articleHow to Study for The SAT in a Week?
The digital SAT scores 90 questions, not the 98 you sit, and gives you 71 seconds per Reading and Writing question. With seven days left you cannot build content knowledge, but you can recover the points you are losing to pacing, rushed misses, and one adaptive routing decision.
Read articleHow to Get a 1400 on the SAT?
A 1400 is the 93rd percentile among recent SAT takers, and there are five different section splits that reach it. College Board's own percentile tables show the same 50-point gain is worth 11 percentile points in one part of the scale and roughly 1 in another, which decides where your study hours should go.
Read articleWhat Is Craft and Structure in SAT?
Craft and Structure is the largest of the four Digital SAT Reading and Writing domains: roughly 28% of the section, or 13 to 15 of the 50 scored questions. It also comes first in both modules, which means the questions you meet in your opening nine minutes are always the same three skills.
Read articleRelaxation Techniques for Exam Anxiety That Work
Nineteen relaxation techniques for exam anxiety, each with steps and an evidence grade. Breathing calms your body in 90 seconds, but it does almost nothing to the worry loop that actually costs you marks. Here is which technique fixes which symptom, and which three popular ones have no research behind them.
Read articleWhat Is the GMAT? Format, Scoring
The GMAT is a 2-hour-15-minute adaptive exam scored 205 to 805, with Quant, Verbal, and Data Insights weighted equally. This guide breaks down the 64-question format, how the retired 200–800 scale translates to the new one, what a competitive score looks like in 2026, and the Superscore change arriving in August.
Read article29 ACT to SAT: Score, Percentile & Colleges
A 29 on the ACT converts to a 1340 on the SAT, with an official concordant band of 1330–1350. But the two tests report that same rank as three different percentiles, and the section scores never add up the way students expect. Here's the official conversion, plus where a 29 lands on your college list.
Read articleHow to Study for the LSAT: A 2026 Plan
The LSAT dropped Logic Games in August 2024, yet most guides still budget weeks for a section that no longer exists. Here is a phase-based plan for the current test, where Logical Reasoning now drives two-thirds of scored questions, plus a target-score method that turns the conversion chart into a diagnostic.
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