Skill Building

Skills You Need

Skills you need is a blog that provides an array of life skills, including test taking skills.

Brainscape


Brainscape Academy provides 22 strategies that students who score well use on their exams.

Huntington Learning

This blog focuses on test taking strategies for adolescents and teens and offers tutoring opportunities.

We Are Teachers


Test preparation strategies for before, during, and after any test.

Reading Help

The Critical Reader is a hub of frequently used historical documents, literature, and newspapers. Reading more of these documents and documents like them will likely increase the probability of your success considering most standardized tests are reading tests after all.


Here you will find methods and strategies to help you become a better speed reader, which can help you greatly on any timed test you are going to encounter.


There are many methods to close reading a text, but this resource provides suggestions for effective annotation AND things to avoid doing while trying to annotate a test selection.

Math Help

Here you can take focused practice Math tests to receive feedback and gain confidence in different types of Math. 

Type in the name of the test you are studying for and Math Help will place you in the course you need to help you succeed!

Do you need an in person experience? Mathnesium has a location in South County that will help you develop the skills to take on standardized tests!

Overcoming Test Anxiety

ABC Action News

This  video can provide parents with tools to help their kids overcome test anxiety.

Understanding Test Anxiety

This tool from UNC Counseling Services provides warning signs of testing anxiety and strategies to overcome it.

Child Mind Institute

This video will provide you ways to beat test anxiety by a Clinical Psychologist.

Teacher Tools 

The following tools have teacher created contact that revolves around all of the tests mentioned in this website. Go to the tool, sign up (for free) and search for study materials for the test you plan to take. Many of these resources will give you immediate feedback and opportunity to try as many times as you would like. 

Information Boards

Interactive Video Lessons

Test Prep Quizzes

Test Prep Quizzes