I'm glad to see that the official URL for the Khan Academy partnership with the College Board is now live. https://www.khanacademy.org/sat https://www.khanacad

I'm glad to see that the official URL for the Khan Academy partnership with the College Board is now live. https://www.khanacademy.org/sat https://www.khanacademy.org/sat I have been looking forward to being able to tell all my friends that they don't have to worry about test prep for the SAT anymore, as that is now free and online through Khan Academy. For people who are still inclined to worry about standardized tests, I will mention that this preparation course will undoubtedly provide useful cross-training for the ACT college admission test and for many other standardized tests. If you are still worried after all that, I have one more tip about standardized tests, a tip that has worked to make all such tests easy for me and for my children. READ, READ To learn how to score well on a standardized test reading section, the number one piece of advice is READ, READ, READ, and READ. Read about what you like to know more about. Read things that are fun for you. Find books and magazines about interesting topics and read them. Turn off the TV and read. Put away the video game controller and read. Read hard things, and read easy things. Read a lot. For years, I wondered why it came so readily to mind to write "READ, READ, READ" in all capital letters like that when I give advice on this subject, as I have frequent occasion to do. Recently, I reread the section "Suggestions for Study" in the front matter of John DeFrancis's book Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I, which I first used to learn Chinese back in 1975. In that section of that book, I found this passage, "Fluency in reading can only be achieved by extensive practice on all the interrelated aspects of the reading process. To accomplish this we must READ, READ, READ" (capitalization as in original). Yes, that works for Chinese, and it works for English too. By practicing reading, you gain reading comprehension and reading speed, and speedy reading with good comprehension gives you time to complete standardized test sections with time to spare. That reduces the pressure and lets you relax and think while you take the test. Try it. You may like it, and anyway reading is fun.