How to write an outline for the SAT essay
The SAT essay requires you to produce a 4 or 5 paragraph essay in a mere 25 minutes, a feat you will likely never be called on to repeat again (I can’t remember ever having less than an hour for a college essay test of comparable length). In this painfully …
The Freshman 15 Writing Rules: The "Whichcraft" of Adjective Clauses
We here at Knewton are feeling benevolent, so we have decided that it’s high time to roll out another of our Freshman 15 Writing Rules. We have heard your cries and felt your hunger, and in our infinite wisdom and mercy, we respond with a new grammar tip. Your prayers …
The Freshman 15 Writing Rules: How to be a pro at pronouns
You’ve heard of the Ten Commandments, the G8, the Big Ten, Top 40 Pop, the Three Musketeers, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the 1001 Things to Do Before You Die. The lists of impressive numbers are endless. But at Knewton, we’ve compiled the most impressive list of them …
Knerd Week: Your SAT essay arsenal
Don’t forget to check out our schedule of Knerd Week SAT workshops here! The SAT essay gets a worse rap than it deserves. Students often believe that it’s impossible to prepare for the essay because there’s a different prompt to answer every single time. While you certainly can’t – and …
SAT Essay Prompts: What they look like and how to approach them
First on the list of Cailey Hall’s recent post, Top 10 SAT Essay Do’s and Don’ts: Take the time to read the essay prompt and make sure you understand what it’s asking. Knewton recommends that you devote a full minute of your total 25 to reading and thinking carefully about …
An Open Letter to Justin Bieber: It’s Time to Think About the SATs
Dear Justin Bieber, Let’s get serious. Justin, you need to think about the SATs. Granted, you were very funny in that sketch with Tina Fey on SNL, and you have amassed a truly astounding number of Youtube subscribers. But despite what the Canadian government, your stylist, and your travel stylist …
The SAT Essay: Top 10 Do's and Don'ts
Cailey Hall is the SAT essay guru for Knewton’s SAT prep course. As Knewton’s resident SAT essay grader, I get to read a lot of SAT essays. While every essay is different – and I always enjoy seeing how students choose to tackle the prompts – I do notice some …
How to ace the SAT Improving Sentences section without turning your brain to mush
Jesse is a Content Developer for Knewton’s SAT prep course. Wouldn’t it be crazy if you had to read paragraphs that looked like this? If you had to read paragraphs that looked like this, wouldn’t it be crazy? The reading of paragraphs that looked like this would be crazy, wouldn’t …
World Cup Grammar
David Ingber is the Faculty Manager at Knewton If you watch the World Cup over the next few weeks, you are bound to hear the commentators utter sentences like this: “England, which have not brought the World Cup trophy back to their homeland in over 50 years, face a difficult …
SAT Prep: The Top 10 Tips
Meghan Daniels is the Associate Editor at Knewton Sometimes, it seems like there are enough SAT prep tips out there to fill up the Grand Canyon. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how to conquer the test–from people who know (teachers and tutors) to people who don’t (your grandmother, the …
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