QuotEd: ACT and SAT Prep in Your Pocket
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Ever wonder how you can supplement your SAT or ACT tutoring? For many students, the downtime when you’re hopping on the T, waiting at the mall, or riding on a bus makes for a fantastic opportunity to put in some extra prep work. But, unless you bring along your vocabulary flashcards or download the latest vocab app on your phone, you probably won’t be able to use that downtime to improve your scores. Which stinks, of course, because a great time to study is when you’re trying to pass time. You’re already stuck there, so why not study?
This thought is what prompted the creation of QuotEd. SAT and ACT prep students needed another tool to accelerate their score improvement. And, students want mobile training that offers them something beyond vocabulary flashcards on their phone. QuotEd offers that something beyond, which is why its apps pair so well with private tutoring.
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QuotEd helps students whether they are studying for the SAT or ACT reading sections. It exposes students to a variety of texts, much like students experience on their tests. But, instead of forcing students to wade through long passages, QuotEd works swiftly with 35-75 word quotations so that students can see hundreds of writing styles in a shorter period of time than would normally be possible, giving students an advantage when they’re taking their real tests. The quotations also work perfectly for mobile reading, so students don’t feel like a website was awkwardly crammed onto their phone or tablet.
Students then engage the quotations with specially designed questions and answer choices, much like you’ll see on test day. Because QuotEd is based on both test prep and literacy research, users will steadily improve as they learn to navigate the tricky passages, questions, and answer choices.
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “train smarter, not harder,” then you’ll understand how only two to five well-designed questions a day can supplement your other daily prep work. And, if you’re traveling without a computer or prep book for a few days, you can keep your tutor happy by studying with a couple extra QuotEd questions. At the least, you won’t lose your edge while you’re separated from your other prep materials.
As your tutors probably explain to you at each session, knowing why one answer is stronger than the others is critical to improving your scores, and QuotEd’s brief explanations of the answer choices can help you learn to navigate the tricky language of the ACT and SAT. If you’re still baffled by an answer choice, you can favorite the question and ask your tutor to further explain at your next session.
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QuotEd ACT Science is Quoted Reading Comprehension’s little sibling. But, it’s an impressive little sibling. Not only does it have a glossary for vocabulary review (how many of you are comfortable with geology jargon? That’s what I thought.), but it has over six practice tests’ worth of questions. And passages are added regularly.
QuotEd ACT Science’s goal is to prepare you for the types of questions and passages the ACT likes to scare students with. In fact, QuotEd ACT Science was created because users of our reading comprehension app were begging for additional help on the ACT’s science section.
Like QuotEd Reading Comprehension, QuotEd ACT Science pairs best with a tutor’s instruction. For users who have paired the science app with ACT tutoring, QuotEd’s top reported, science scores for the last three ACT tests have been 36, 36, and 35. Generally, tutors will assign one passage per day from QuotEd, but if students are crunched on time before their next test, they can benefit from as many as 30 questions per day on top of their normal book work.
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Probably the best part of QuotEd’s apps is that tutors can specifically incorporate the apps into a student’s training, or students can incorporate the apps on top of their regular ACT and SAT prep. Because QuotEd is designed so that it can be used when normal study methods would be unavailable, students can accelerate how quickly their scores improve and sometimes exceed even their own expectations for how much their scores improve.