Test Preparation

Objective: Research, identify, and participate in planning and practice for postsecondary assessments

Directions: Complete the following activities and questions to complete the assignment.

Tasks: Visit these links to identify which test preparation is good for you! All of these sites provide free test information and preparation.

1) Take the online practice tests to determine your strongest and weakest areas.

Information and practice are provided from the official SAT site. There are many free options and a few low-cost ones.

Information and practice are provided from the official ACT site. There are many free options and a few low-cost ones.

Spark Notes contains a lot of information and practice, as well as links to other sites.

An SAT program from the Ck12 Foundation. You must register to access the materials, but there is no cost to you.

 

Tips for SAT/ACT Test Registration

Some tips for test registration:

• To register for the test, go directly to the site. or ( It is not required that your register to complete this assignment )
• Be prepared to spend some time on the first application as there are questions to complete with the registration.
• Have a credit card handy to pay for the test.
• Print your receipt and any other information that you might need for reference.

Our school code, or CEEB number, is 100576. Please use this number so that your scores will be sent directly to us.

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Activity: Analyze Practice Test Results

Directions: Based on the results from the practice tests you completed above, Answer each of the following questions.

1. Submit a list of your weakest areas. 2. Submit a list of strongest areas. 3. Which of the tests (ACT or SAT) will best highlight your strongest areas? 4. Explain in 2-3 sentences why that particular test would highlight your strengths better than the other.

A: Make a list of 5 internal data (specific data points such as “first name” and “sales per day”) that the following companies would have in their database: Amazon.ca, Pharmaprix, and Concordia University. (different ones for each. They should not be ordinary ones, i.e. first name and last name!).

B: For each one, write a brief logic that why you think it could be a useful one. i.e. for birth date, you can say they might use it to congrats and provide coupons.

Hint: Name and sales per day are the two examples of distinct information, which a company might have in its internal database. Another piece of information might be, for example, email address, gender, price trends, and so on. I am asking for a list containing 5 of such information - not real or mock examples: i.e. John, $20, etc - for each of the four companies. This information could be stored by different methods, i.e. when you sign up or purchase products from Amazon, you provide Amazon several different kinds of information. The same might be once you want to pick up your prescribed medicine from the Pharmaprix. The goal of this assignment is to think of different types of information a company has.

Attention to these points are required:
1. These companies are not the same in nature (so not all information that they have is the same)
2. There are different methods that a company acquires the data (so not all information that it has should look the same, i.e. all are not demographic-based information).
3. If a consumer walks into a Pharmaprix store and makes a cash purchase, that the company collects no data about that person at all—but that they do have data about the item purchased.
4. More importantly, the internal data is not about just customers! It could be about the inventory, cash flow, customer satisfaction, and so on! So the list should consist of a piece of information from any of the following departments (not all from the same source): marketing department, customer service department, accounting department, operation reports, sales force, and marketing channels.