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Dear MJTP Families, I’m excited to share some wonderful news from the September 13th SAT results, which were released yesterday morning. This was one of the best SATs across the board for our group, with an average Reading and Writing score increase of about 73 points from students’ previous
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The Latest Real Words from Real Tests - Straight from r/SAT Reports Based on comprehensive analysis of student reports from the r/SAT community, we've identified the official vocabulary words that appeared on the August 2025 US SAT administrations. These aren't practice words or approximations
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Dear MJTP Families, The September 13 SAT is coming up this Saturday—a big moment, and I wanted to share some thoughts and reminders to help your students be at their best. What I’ve Noticed Now that school is in full swing, things are getting busy: * Homework loads are
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Dear MJTP Families, As most score release dates do, yesterday’s score release brought a mix of excitement and reflection. Out of the 15–20 students I’ve been working with, nearly everyone saw improvement, with some raising their Reading & Writing scores by as much as 110 points! Overall,
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Hello, MJTP families! I’ll be honest—this is the first chance I’ve had to write a newsletter in a while. School just started back, which means full days of in-service training from 8:30 to 4, followed immediately by a wall-to-wall schedule of SAT tutoring until 9 p.
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Energy on Campus This Week There was an energy on campus this week that I hadn’t felt all summer. As many of you know, I’m still a full-time teacher, and I live just a short walk from the academy where I work. One of the perks of that
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SAT Writing and Language Practice The international climate summit brought together leading experts from multiple disciplines: Dr. Elena Rodriguez, a climatologist from Madrid who specializes in atmospheric modeling, carbon cycle analysis, and temperature trend forecasting____Professor Zhang Wei, an economist from Beijing whose research focuses on carbon pricing mechanisms, sustainable
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SAT Transitions and Rhetorical Synthesis Quiz Question 1: Plato believed material objects to be crude representations of unseen ideal forms. In his view, such abstract, nonmaterial forms are the ultimate source of knowledge. Aristotle disagreed, positing that knowledge is best obtained through direct engagement with the material world; _______ sensory experience
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New Prefix Quizzes Now Available! I've just published my latest batch of prefix quizzes to help you master vocabulary building from the ground up. These targeted exercises will strengthen your word recognition skills for not only the word in context section, but also your general reading comprehension – many
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Marta Coll and colleagues' 2010 Mediterranean Sea biodiversity census reported approximately 17,000 species, nearly double the number reported in Carlo Bianchi and Carla Morri's 2000 census—a difference only partly attributable to the description of new invertebrate species in the interim. Another factor is that the
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Summer SAT Bootcamp Launch: Day One Success! We kicked off our intensive four-week Summer SAT Bootcamp today, and I couldn't be more excited about what we accomplished. Students dove straight into a comprehensive one-hour SAT verbal session, followed by an equally thorough hour with Dr. Ela covering SAT