For many students, math is one subject that just seems like you either get it or you don’t. If you’re not a math whiz, your options may seem limited: study hard and still settle for mediocre results or continue to fall behind until it feels impossible to catch up. It...
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Notable Note-taking Tips
Even though it is common for teachers to rely on educational websites, handouts, and guided notes from slide presentations with only a few pieces of information left for students to fill in, it’s still important for students to take good notes. Unfortunately, taking...
College Readiness: Skills for Postsecondary Success
It’s nearly the end of the first semester of college. While most of the other freshmen are cramming for finals, regretting too many late night parties, eating nothing but cereal, wearing the same pair of jeans three days in a row, and stressing about how to find time...
PSAT Scores: Get Ready for Your Results
It feels like it was just yesterday when you took the PSAT: bubble sheets, geometry formulas, comma splices, and that very specific feeling of excitement mixed with anxiety are still fresh in your memory. Now, it’s almost time to find out how you did when the College...
Change is Coming to FAFSA: What You Need to Know
By this time last year, high school seniors applying to college would have already started to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). This year’s seniors face a different timeline and a different FAFSA that will affect how they apply for...
Introducing Amanda Reilly: A+’s New College Admissions Coach
A+ Test Prep and Tutoring is excited to welcome Amanda Reilly, who will join us as our new College Admissions Coach! Amanda has been a school counselor for the past 13 years in a very competitive and academic public school in Great Neck, NY on Long Island. She...
Featured Student: Grayson Graham
Spend some time with Germantown Friends School junior Grayson Graham and it becomes clear that he is a bright student with a bright future ahead of him. Several months ago, Grayson was a sophomore about to begin ACT test prep with A+ Test Prep and Tutoring. Now, he...
A Guide to College Auditions
Applying to college is already intimidating without adding more steps, more deadlines, and more pressure to leave admission committees with one final impression of your skills and talents, but that’s exactly what students who are applying to programs in the performing...
How to Become a Homework Superstar
Jackson wasn’t a bad student—he wanted to do well in school and genuinely loved learning—but his homework grades were dragging him down. On top of balancing school with his part-time job at the grocery store and marching band, he just struggled with procrastination...
dSAT (Digital SAT) Update
As we head into the fall and a new school year, the leaves won’t be the only things changing. These next several months mark the last chance students have to take a paper SAT with December 2023 as the last date for the paper SAT and March 2024 as the start date for...
Requesting Letters of Recommendation
No matter how impressive, your transcript, test scores, and activities list are a mere collection of facts, and your essays just your biased perspective. So, what part of your college application can provide a reliable and insightful view of who you are? Letters of...
Featured Student: Delaney Cramp
When Delaney Cramp started preparing for the ACT, she didn’t know what to expect. She didn’t expect that she would laugh so much, and she didn’t expect that she would improve her score so significantly. But, she did. After working hard throughout the winter and...
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