Congratulations AMY YU on perfect ACT score
Excel To a Perfect score
Another PERFECT ACT Score and Another Scholarship Awarded!
Quick – name one thing that Excel students are absolutely dominating. Well, there are many things on that list, but quite frankly, the ACT might be at the top of it. What makes us think so? Dougherty Valley junior Vikram Karmarkar, who is the latest member of the Excel community to earn top mark on the ACT exam. Vikram’s motivation for enrolling in an SAT prep course was more refinement-of-technique driven, rather than rundown-of-the-basics: “I wanted tips and strategies to help me score well on the test.” While in class, he found that the course… Continue Reading
What is the ACT?
The ACT is a standardized test (just like the SAT) consisting of four main sections – English, math reading, science reasoning, and an optional essay. No points are deducted for wrong answers. The test is scored out of 36, with the range of possible scores being 1-36. Each of the four main sections are also scored from 1-36, and these 4 scores are then averaged which gives a student’s composite score. For example, if a student gets a 33 on English, 35 on Math, 34 on Reading, and 36 on Science, the average of these… Continue Reading
Breaking Down Vocabulary
So you’ve been studying your vocabulary list for the last few weeks, and you’ve gotten the hang of it. You know definitions and you feel pretty comfortable about understanding the words in context, but what about the other hundreds of thousands of words in the English language? One thing that you can do to prepare yourself when you encounter the more remote words is learn to dissect words and figure out their meanings based on the roots. By dividing words into familiar parts, you can learn how to decode even the strangest vocabulary words. You… Continue Reading