Need a convenient, specialized online course to help you prepare for the SAT?  Nova’s SAT Online Course is the way to go!  It’s and interactive and comprehensive course that you can move through at your own pace.  It includes over 600 pages worth of material with hundreds of SAT examples and problems.

By using Nova’s course, you gain access to our SAT experts, who provide personal feedback and can answer questions via live chat.  StudyDesk, another benefit to Nova’s course, allows you to track your progress and directs you to areas where you need to concentrate your study.  Plus, it allows you to move through sections at your own pace.  You can jump to specific content areas or go directly to the practice tests!

The course reviews concepts dealing with the verbal, math, and written sections of the SAT.  The verbal area gives specific tips on how to improve reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence completion in addition to providing you with vocabulary lists and some tips on etymology.  By giving you the overview on etymology, Nova Press gives you the tools to determine the origin of words you don’t know so you can make an educated guess as to the definition, thereby increasing your chances of a correct answer.

Trying to improve your writing for the written section of the SAT can be a daunting task.  How do you  know what to review?  And how do you know what they’re looking for in your essays?  Nova’s SAT Online course can help you with the answer to these questions.  This portion of the course reviews basic grammar rules along with examples and explanations on how to determine the right ordering of words.  Practice sections allow you to put these rules to the test, and answers with explanations follow so you can make sure you’re solid.  This course also gives tips on how to develop your own writing style and on how to read the prompts so you know exactly what they’re asking.  Still wondering what they’re looking for?  Nova Press has included rubrics so you can gauge your own writing against what the test-graders would like to see.

The math portion gives clear explanations and examples of the many areas of math you should be familiar with.  Not sure what you need to review?  You can choose whether to go through the practice tests first and then go back to review content you got wrong, or you can work your way through the content  before taking a test.  With Nova Press, the choice is yours.

Don’t let studying for the SAT stress you out.  With some hard work on your part, guided by Nova’s SAT Online course, you can master the SAT.  It even comes with a guarantee:  If, after completing the course, you still do not feel sufficiently prepared for the test, you may repeat the course for free – with full access to our instructors.  You can’t go wrong with Nova Press.

 

Originally posted 2012-03-30 20:35:47.

Nova Press Books (though some may have heard of us as “Novum Press”) are the answer to all of your testing needs.  Whether you’re preparing for the ACT or SAT, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE, or TOEFL, Nova Press has a book geared specifically to preparing for that test.

These books help you learn the format of the test, familiarize you with common mistakes of test-takers, and help you to understand what the test is really testing.  For writing portions, the Nova Press books include rubrics, so you can gauge where you are now.  They provide practice prompts as well as sample responses so you can learn to evaluate others writing as well as your own.

The verbal sections of these tests are looking for many different skills.  Improving reading comprehension and vocabulary are key to success on most of tests.  The Nova Press books guide you through specific strategies for improving reading comprehension and give lists for vocabulary most commonly used on these tests.  Beyond just giving vocabulary and definitions, the Nova Press GRE book looks at the etymology of words, so that if you come across one you don’t know, you have knowledge to draw on to make a logical guess as to the meaning.

Math sections review common mathematical areas that are tested.  These sections in the books give an overview of concepts, followed by a more detailed explanation.  Sample problems are given along with answers and how to get to those answers.  Practice tests are essential to understanding the format of the test and to apply the principles explained in the section.  Whether you need to review all of the math required for the test or just specific topics, Nova Press books have you covered!

Don’t get overwhelmed trying to prepare for the tests whose scores can help to guide your future.  Instead, get prepared with Nova Press books.  With a little guidance from Nova Press and a lot of hard work, you can succeed.

Originally posted 2012-03-29 01:10:45.

The GRE is fast approaching … Or at lot faster than you might think!  However, there’s no need to panic if you’re studying with Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course.  With specific sections dedicated to each of the three main test areas, you can choose what to work on first and how much review you want to do.

The section dedicated to the GRE writing category is comprehensive.  The first subsection focuses on punctuation and grammatical errors that occur commonly.  By reviewing the rules and examples given in this subsection, you can reduce your error rate dramatically.  It will also help you improve your writing for graduate school, where mistakes can be detrimental to your future.  “Punctuation” focuses on the misuse of commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, apostrophes, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences.  The “Usage” section review pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, misplaced modifies, faulty parallelism, faulty verb tenses, and idiom usage.  These subsections give clear examples of both correct and incorrect usage as well as practice tests to allow you to apply the information reviewed.

The GRE writing section is more than just correct grammar, though.  Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course outlines tools you can use to improve your own writing and steps you can take to prepare for the type of writing required on the test.  This section of the Prep course gives specific suggestions for improving introductions and conclusions as well as how to develop your own writing style.  Whether it’s improving your “transition” vocabulary, learning how to vary your sentence structure, or adding figurative language to your writing, you can find tips here.  Additionally, Nova Press provides writing samples that you can review and critique.

This section also includes rubrics for both the argument analysis essay and the one in which you provide your perspective on an issue.  It gives you suggestions for how to organize your thoughts during pre-writing, key words to look for when trying to determine the meaning of a prompt, sample essays to read along with critiques of those essays, and sample prompts for you to guide your writing practice.

Don’t walk into the test unprepared for the GRE writing section.  Study with Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course, and know what to expect when you walk in on test day.

Originally posted 2012-03-26 20:46:20.

The GRE, whether taken on a computer or with paper and pencil, can seem like a daunting task.  You can study for how to improve your score with the multiple choice sections, review math concepts and grammar rules, and study vocabulary, but how do you prepare for the GRE argument essay?  Never fear!  Nova Press is here!

The Nova Press GRE Prep Course can help you learn what to expect for the essays and gives specific suggestions on how to approach them.  It explains how the essays are scored and reviews basic grammar and punctuation rules to help you immediately reduce your error rate.  Correct and incorrect examples are shown along with explanations for how to decide.  Topics include commas, colons, semicolons, dashes, apostrophes, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, pronoun errors, and many more!  Practice tests follow each review section, allowing you the opportunity to put your skills to work.  The answers and explanations are in a section following the practice test, so you can check your work when you’re done.

If you’re ready to move on to the writing portion, Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course gives you some guidance on ideal basic structure for the GRE argument essay.  Beyond just refining introductory and conclusion paragraphs, Nova Press also gives hints on how to develop your writing style.  Suggestions on how to vary your sentence structure, expand your transition vocabulary, and how to use figurative language are covered in detail, followed up with examples and another practice test.

Once you feel like you have all of these useful devices under control, it’s time to move on to the actual writing.  The Nova Press GRE Prep Course gives you the grading rubric, so you know what they’re looking for.  As the GRE has two different essays, one requiring you to take a stand on an issue and another asking you to evaluate an argument, each essay is treated separately.  The section devoted to the “Issue Essay” works out specific steps to follow to make sure you are clear on what the issue is and on how to map out your response before you dive into writing.  The “Argument Analysis Essay” section also gives a rubric, but it then focuses on helping you make sure you determine the correct conclusion based on the information given.  The book also works to make sure you know the different between inductive and deductive reasoning.  Both sections give practice prompts and then walk through the steps explained earlier to lead you to a successful essay.  It also provides sample essays for you to review and evaluate.

Don’t let the GRE argument essays get you down!  With Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course, you can master the GRE.  Just takes a little guidance and some hard work.

Originally posted 2012-03-24 04:43:39.

The LSAT has four main components plus an experimental section: analytical reasoning (games), logical reasoning (arguments), reading comprehension, and a writing sample.  It seems strange that part of such a difficult test would include games, but the analytical reasoning section is not a “fun” experience for most.  In fact, it relies heavily on the use of Set Theory, though it’s possible to solve them without using mathematical tools.

Nova Press’s Master the LSAT can help you improve your analytical reasoning average.  They break down the elements you should look for when reading the questions and helps you learn how to manage time for this section.  No college course will prepare you for these, but Nova Press has put together materials to help you classify the games into major categories and teach you systematic ways to approach the problems.

After discussing the main classifications of games, Master the LSAT, describes the specific format of the games section, gives criteria to consider when trying to decide whether to skip a game or work on it, and suggests specific phraseology that test-writers use to confuse the test-takers.  These may include ambiguity in the meaning of a word as well as wording a sentence such that you may make unwarranted assumptions.

Nova Press provides an extensive section on preparing you against those traps set by the test-writers.  They then give practice tests for you to try out the strategies learned.  These practice sections are followed by an answer section with detailed explanations on how to get the correct answer for each question.  Further strategies are then introduced and reinforced before moving on to other sections devoted to the main categories of games.

Don’t just stress about improving your LSAT analytical reasoning average.  Take action.  Get the help you need: get Nova Press Master the LSAT.

Originally posted 2012-03-22 00:27:23.