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Support Diverse Learning with Enhanced Peterson’s Experience

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Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Suite Is a Must-Have

| By Gale Staff | Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep combines Peterson’s Test Prep and Peterson’s Career Prep to offer patrons and students a full-service resource for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting college and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, exploring career paths, and more. From the high school or community college student … Read more

Career College Search Added to Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep

| By Gale Staff | Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep helps job seekers create resumés, explore jobs, get career advice, and now, further their education and experience by searching for career programs! We’ve added a career college search tool to this resource, supported by Peterson’s proprietary college database. The career college search helps job seekers … Read more

A Look at the New SAT

Posted January 25, 2016

By Rosemary Long

As the March 5 launch date for the updated SAT comes closer, now’s a good time to take a closer look at what the revamped test is all about. Detailed information abounds, so the goal of this post is to winnow it down to the essentials.

New Features

Perhaps bowing to the competition, the new SAT features content that is similar to the ACT. And it has also adopted two ACT features. Test takers don’t lose points for wrong answers—so there’s less temptation to leave an answer blank—and they are offered only four choices of response instead of five.

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