Tag: SAT

Share A teenager from New York thinks he's cracked the SAT -- and he says he did it with a little help from Facebook. Fourteen-year-old Milo Beckman apparently wanted to test the research of MIT professor Les Perelman, who had claimed that longer essays resulted in higher SAT scores. According to the College Board, these essays aren't graded according to any rigorous criteria, but on the "general ...

The name 'Kaplan' may bring to mind tedious preparation for standardized tests like the SAT or ACT. That seems to be exactly the reputation the company is trying to shake with its new Facebook application 'SmashWall.' The idea, as you might expect, is that you smash things against a wall. Once installed, the app (which can be added to your Facebook page here) lets you throw digital objects, like ...

We guess those bailout talks with DirecTV weren't so futile after all, huh? The satcaster's parent company, Liberty Media, has just stepped in to rescue Sirius XM from the clutches of bankruptcy, providing a $530 million life raft that it will use to pay off looming debt payments and keep operations humming. Liberty will write a $280 million check immediately, of which $171 million will go ...

Where there are standardized tests there are always companies making a killing on exam preparation books and classes. Princeton Review is one of those, specializing in training for exams ranging from the ACT to the USMLE. However, the company itself apparently needs a lesson when it comes to Web security -- it accidentally posted over 100,000 records of private information about students online ...