A Book By Zinc Instructor Chris Arp Yes, kids, there is an alternative to the big, bad SAT—it’s called the ACT. And yes, there’s now an alternative to the big, bad, boring ACT study books: Up Your Score: ACT, the prep and survival guide with attitude. Zinc veteran Chris Arp explains the essential strategies, based on Zinc’s […]
Excerpts From A Radio Interview with Zinc Founder Matt Bardin And Partner Will Chancellor Zinc founder and president Matt Bardin explains why the SAT is different from a typical high school test and how Zinc approaches the SAT Your browser does not support the audio element. Matt discusses the factors that make reading difficult for […]
A Book By Zinc Founder Matt Bardin How do you prepare for a test? Study the material, of course. But studying for the SAT is different—knowing facts is not enough. On the SAT, basic information is presented in tricky new combinations, and getting the right answers depends less on what you know than on how […]
An Op-Ed By Zinc Founder Matt Bardin It’s not surprising that many people seem repulsed by standardized testing. The idea that performance on a test can influence important events in one’s life feels wrong on a variety of levels. Criticism of admissions tests like the SAT and ACT has gotten so pronounced that even the […]
As an English teacher in New York City’s public school system at the height of the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, Matt Bardin was not surprised that some of the children who claimed to dodge bullets to get to class had problems reading. It seemed to the young Mr Bardin that the task was […]
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