Studying for the SAT and ACT may be one of the biggest challenges a high school student is faced with. Often described as the gatekeepers between high school and college, the ACT and SAT can highly influence the future of a student’s education. Filled with questions regarding mathematics, reading comprehension and writing, students are met with the challenge of mastering content in all three of these subjects, along with balancing the rest of their school work.
In order to prepare for the SAT and/or ACT, students often spend hours studying content, practicing exercises and analyzing their results. With time constraints placed on both tests, students have to deal with the added pressure of not only learning the tests’ content, but also answering questions and completing exercises accurately and in a timely manner.
Every student learns and tests differently, making standardized tests difficult for many students to prepare for. Tom Rose and Miro Kazakoff, two MBA students from MIT’s Sloan School of Executive Management, recognized this challenge and worked to develop a solution that would help students prepare for the SAT and ACT at their own pace.
The result was the creation of Testive.com, an algorithm-based online test prep system that personalizes questions and adapts to students based on their capabilities, helping to keep each student learning at his or her optimum level.
“Testive keeps students focused on the materials that are at the right difficulty for them. If students have to work on problems that are too easy, they become disengaged and bored. If they work on problems that are too difficult, students become frustrated. We focus on providing questions that are at the right difficulty level for students, challenging them just enough to keep them interested,” says Tom Rose, co-founder of Testive.com.
In traditional in-school preparatory courses, students are forced to prepare for the same questions, at the same time as their fellow classmates. Furthermore, students choosing to study on their own or in addition to attending preparatory classes may struggle with developing a strategy to understand and learn the content anticipated to be on the SAT or ACT. Testive.com helps alleviate the stress of individually preparing for a difficult and timed standardized test.
Rachel Quetti is the editor of K-12 TechDecisions, aimed at helping K-12 professionals make better decisions about technology purchases for their classrooms, schools and school districts. Rachel joined the TechDecisions team in 2015 and covers the latest technology trends in the K-12 market.Get in Touch: [email protected] More by Rachel Quetti
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