Science is now optional on the ACT. Here’s how to think about whether to take it, what colleges are actually doing with it, and why an early attempt is usually worth it.

Anxiety on test day usually isn’t about the test. It’s about whether the prep and the plan were already in place before the student sat down.

A practical checklist for the week before the ACT or SAT: what to check, what to skip, and why test morning is the wrong time to try something new.

Five questions worth asking before you hire an ACT or SAT tutor, including the one most tutoring companies hope you never ask.

Missing a question on material your student clearly knows usually isn’t a knowledge gap. It’s one of five traps built into the ACT and digital SAT, and once you see them, you can’t unsee them.

A practical breakdown of what actually predicts whether a student does better on the SAT or the ACT, from timing and vocabulary to how each test weights math.