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Excited About the SATs? You Will Be After Reading THIS.

By: Chelsea Dagger

Okay, so maybe taking the SATs on January 22 won’t be quite as much fun as the time you were bit by a rabid crawfish and had to spend three days in a quarantine tent in Chickasaw, Mississippi, but it's gonna be CLOSE. Why? Because we're about to give you the best present EVER: ab-so-lutely FREE NookBooks from Kaplan Publishing, including all the SAT workbooks and practice tests you could want. PLUS, free AP exam workbooks AND study guides for the GRE, GMAT, and other standardized tests. So what are you waiting for? Click RIGHT HERE to download the FREE NOOK apps (readable on PCs, iPads, iPhones, and Android smartphones), and then throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care. TODAY JUST BECAME THE BEST DAY EVER.

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The Think Tank: Malfoy Eats the SATs

By: Chelsea Dagger

We, the noble, rakishly good-looking, profusely sweaty members of Phi Beta Dagger, must today bravely acknowledge a cold, hard fact: summer vacation is OVER. Yep, those glorious, perspiration-soaked days are a thing of the past, and we've all got the face the music: school is back in session, and it's time to get our LEARN on. Consequently, the venerable Think Tank shall heretofore replace logic-based riddles with practice SAT problems. Yay?

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Dealing With Drama on SAT Day

By: Maggie Flynn

Saturday’s SAT exam made primetime television this week. On Tuesday’s episode of 90210, the gang spent the week studying for the test, but by the time they got to the big day, they were totally demoralized and destined to fail. It wasn't because they weren't ready—it was because the drama of their social lives (fights with boyfriends, a psycho sister’s return to town, and other juicy TV problems) were on their minds while the proctor was passing out the test.

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SAT Down: The Future of Standardized Tests

By: Jeff_Alexander

Stressed out about the SATs? Maybe you shouldn't be. As someone said last year, "No one…can come away thinking that standardized tests can be a measure of someone's true worth or ability." By the way, the person who said that just happens to be the dean of admissions at Harvard, and who'd know more about getting into Harvard than that guy?

But if the day ever comes when students sit for the last SAT, something's going to need to fill the vacuum. After all, there has to be some way to measure someone's true worth or ability. So start studying up for the kinds of tests that we at SparkNotes would like to see as the new gateway to quality higher ed.

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