Daily Archives: May 24, 2026

Becoming a Vocab Sponge: Learning Digital SAT Vocab Quickly and Effectively

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In the biggest SAT redesign of the 21st century back in 2016, the CollegeBoard did away with “Vocabulary” questions, replacing them with much fluffier “words in context” items. Instead of having to memorize the definitions of words like perfunctory, intractable, and circumlocution, students could use contextual clues to determine which of four much easier words fit in a given context. Quite surreptitiously (to use a favorite old school College Board word), they’re been slowly bringing back more and more of their favorite words that used to appear on the SAT for decades. So the bad news is that it’s no […]

For SENIORS and Rising Seniors: Graduation Is a FAMILY Achievement

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As junior year winds down, you may have started to sense an inchoate foreboding, that senior year won’t be all fun and games. Well, guess what? Your intuition is on point. Whether you’re aware of it or not, there will be a stranger living in your house soon, as you launch your final year of high school. And that stranger has a name, and its name is STRESS. Hahaha, Dr. Yo, you retort. You don’t know me and my family. OUR family is no stranger to stress. Not a problem! Let’s hope so. But the stress a high school senior […]