Welcome to the Northside College Guidance blog. In an effort to provide families with up-to-date information in a practical way, I will use this space to pass along details regarding scholarships, open house opportunities, deadlines, college tours, summer experiences, and more! Check back often and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
The Redesigned PSAT - Info and Insights
Kaplan has released the following information in regards to the new PSAT.
You may also wish to take advantage of the redesigned practice PSAT found HERE.
You may also wish to take advantage of the redesigned practice PSAT found HERE.
The Kaplan Content and Curriculum Team has read and analyzed the new exam - here are some of our observations:
- There is lots of reading on this exam, across both the Evidence-Based Reading & Writing and Math sections.
- The 60 minute Evidence-Based Reading Test, comprised of 4 long passages and 1 paired passage with 47 questions, will challenge students’ stamina and focus.
- 80% of the Evidence-Based Reading Test is made up of passages from Science and Social Studies/History, and will require a substantial amount of returning to the passage to locate specific details and textual evidence.
- Math questions appear, generally, in order of difficulty from Easy to Medium to Hard.
- Math questions involve a lot of reading and focus on real-world contexts, such as identifying the function that represents the cost of an online gaming service, and analyzing a chart displaying data on summer employment of teenagers.
- Although the College Board indicated that trig would only be on the SAT, a very basic trigonometry question was introduced on the Math section of the PSAT Practice Test.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
FREE Test Prep for the new SAT and PSAT
Khan Academy has partnered with the College Board to provide free practice for the new SAT:
https://www.khanacademy.org/sat
https://www.khanacademy.org/sat
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Athletic Training/Physical Therapy Camp
Erskine College is hosting an athletic training camp for high school
students who are interested in the field of athletic training or
physical therapy. The camp will begin on Wednesday, June 10th and end on Saturday, June 13th.
For more information and a registration form, please feel free to
contact Scott DeCiantis, Athletic Training Program Director at deciantis@erskine.edu.
Monday, May 11, 2015
New Scholarship Search Engine
A message from the creator of "GoodCall" scholarship search engine:
In addition to having more than six times as many scholarship listings as Fastweb for graduating high school seniors, ours is the only scholarship search engine on the web that is:
In addition to having more than six times as many scholarship listings as Fastweb for graduating high school seniors, ours is the only scholarship search engine on the web that is:
- 100% open (students can see AND apply for all scholarships listed on our site without giving us any of their personal information)
- Completely free to use
- Updated daily with newly found scholarships
- Able to calculate competition level, entry difficulty, etc to help students choose which scholarships to apply for.
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