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Students Preparing for the October PSAT Can go to www.kaptest.com/psatlive for Livestreaming Interactive Teaching Sessions with Kaplan Experts
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Press Contact: Russell Schaffer, russell.schaffer@kaplan.com, 212.453.7538
Twitter: @KapTestNews, @KaplanSATACT
New York, NY (September 19, 2017) – For millions of teens, the PSAT/NMSQT® is more than just great practice for the SAT® or ACT® — it’s the first meaningful milestone in the college admissions process. Scoring well on this nearly 3-hour exam can attract notice from colleges and open the door to scholarship opportunities. To help students succeed, for a second consecutive year, Kaplan Test Prep is holding its free, online PSAT Prep Live program, beginning Saturday, September 23. With lessons that cover every section of the exam, Kaplan’s PSAT Prep Live will give the nearly 4 million students who take the PSAT annually access to live interactive instruction online, taught by master teachers who can answer their questions in real time.
“A successful outcome in the college admissions process all starts with a high PSAT score. Doing well on the exam can get students on colleges’ radars for recruitment and scholarship money, and we are excited to once again help students achieve these important goals,” said Lee Weiss, vice president of college admissions programs, Kaplan Test Prep. “With $180 million in National Merit scholarships awarded to top-scoring PSAT takers, we remain committed to helping students achieve their highest possible PSAT scores, which is why we decided to make our best teachers available for free. Our engaging, motivating content delivered live from dynamic, expert teachers will provide students with the opportunity to ask and have their questions answered in real time — within a community of other motivated learners.”
The eight, one-hour live lessons will begin livestreaming on Saturday, September 23, 4:00-5:00 pm ET and run through Sunday, October 8. The sessions include four lessons dedicated to the Math Test and two lessons each dedicated to the Reading Test and Writing and Language Test. Among the eight lessons are two Advanced lessons (one Math, one Verbal) geared towards students who are competing for National Merit® scholarships. Each lesson will run live twice, with recordings available for students who were unable to attend or for students needing a refresher.
For more information, go to www.kaptest.com/psatlive.
The SAT® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this product. The PSAT/NMSQT® is a registered trademark of the College Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation which were not involved in the production of, and do not endorse this product. The ACT® is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this product.
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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Press Contact: Russell Schaffer, russell.schaffer@kaplan.com, 212.453.7538
Twitter: @KapTestNews, @KaplanLSATPrep
New York, NY (September 18, 2017) — Kaplan Test Prep’s 2017 law school admissions officers survey shows more law schools warming up to the idea of allowing applicants to submit GRE scores instead of LSAT® scores*. According to the responses of 128 law schools across the United States, 25 percent say it’s an admissions policy they plan to implement, up from just 14 percent in Kaplan’s 2016 survey; 45 percent say they have no plans to do so, a drop from 56 percent who ruled it out in last year’s survey; and 30 percent are not sure, the same as in 2016.
The survey release comes on the heels of announced plans by Harvard Law School ,Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Georgetown Law to join University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in giving prospective students more options for how to get in. Opening up the application pool to GRE takers also gives law schools more prospective students to choose from during what continues to be a time of historically low application volume. But this change also come at a time when the American Bar Association, which governs the nation’s 200+ law schools, is deliberating on what to do about the issue: allow law schools to continue accepting the GRE or at least temporarily put a halt to it.
Law schools who plan to begin accepting the GRE offered a range of reasons, often expressing concerns that if they don’t they will be at a student recruitment disadvantage:
Among the shrinking plurality of law schools who say they plan to remain LSAT-only, admissions officers largely said they were not sold on the idea that the GRE is as predictive as the LSAT is in determining first year success in law school. They also said that until the ABA rules on the issue, that their policy will remain unchanged:
“Our survey finds the clearest sign yet that there is a shift toward greater GRE acceptance among law schools, but there’s still much uncertainty since one ruling from the American Bar Association could put an end to the practice,” said Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs, Kaplan Test Prep. “However and importantly, there are numerous caveats for applicants who plan to seek the GRE route to get into law school. Most applicants will still have to take the LSAT as only three law schools accept the GRE this year. And even if you rock the GRE, but bomb the LSAT, law schools will see your LSAT score. You can’t only send the score you want to the schools you want. You will not be able to withhold your LSAT score. That means that while a high GRE score could mitigate against a weaker LSAT score, it will not be overlooked entirely. Plan on taking the LSAT.”
For a one-minute video on Kaplan’s survey results, visit here.
To schedule an interview about Kaplan’s survey results, please contact Russell Schaffer at russell.schaffer@kaplan.com or 212.453.7538.
*Based on the results of a Kaplan Test Prep survey conducted by phone in May 2017 of 128 law schools, including 18 of the top 30, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
Test names and other trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. None of the trademark holders are endorsed by nor affiliated with Kaplan or this survey.
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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Note to editors: Kaplan is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC)
Press Contact: Russell Schaffer, russell.schaffer@kaplan.com, 212.453.7538
Twitter: @KapTestNews, @KaplanSATACT
New York, NY (September 13, 2017) — Results from Kaplan’s 13th annual survey of admissions officers from the top colleges and universities across the United States show that more applicants are submitting ACT scores*. Of the nearly 300 schools surveyed, 58 percent report more applicants submitting ACT scores compared to three to five years ago, with 70 percent of this subset reporting the increase as “significant.” A separate Kaplan survey of over 550 students finds that 62 percent of high schoolers who have already taken the SAT® plan to take or have already taken the ACT as well**.
To help prepare the rising number of ACT takers and expand educational access, last year ACT and Kaplan launched a partnership to provide high-quality, engaging live instruction at an accessible cost, and free for low-income students. ACT Kaplan Online Prep Live provides a world-class live teaching experience delivered to computers, tablets, and mobile phones—so students can study anywhere, anytime, on any device. Since ACT Kaplan Online Prep Live’s launch last fall, over 100,000 students have engaged in instructional sessions delivered by Kaplan’s world-class teachers, and approximately 700,000 students have been offered access to the program, free of charge, via the ACT fee-waiver enrollment process. To date, Kaplan’s expert teachers have delivered over 450 hours of highly interactive livestreaming instruction on topics from English, to Math, to Science, to time management, to goal setting.
While there have been more ACT takers than SAT takers for the past few years, there are signs that the SAT is making a comeback. In recent years, the SAT has been making gains among states which mandate students take one of the tests as a graduation requirement, including the recent decision by Illinois to switch over from the ACT.
“What test-taking trends and our survey results show is that we continue to be a highly competitive two-test landscape. With last year’s changes to the SAT making the exams more similar than ever and every college allowing applicants to submit scores from either test, students have the opportunity to do well on both to help them get into their top college choices,” said Lee Weiss, vice president of college admissions programs, Kaplan Test Prep. “As always, we encourage teens to take a practice test to see which exam they feel most comfortable with and which one they think will be most advantageous to their admissions chances. Many teens, we know, actually submit scores from both exams, as doing well on both can be an admissions advantage.”
For a one-minute video on Kaplan’s survey results, visit here.
*For the 2017 survey, admissions officers from 299 of the nation’s top national, regional and liberal arts colleges and universities – as compiled by U.S. News & World Report — were polled by telephone between July and August 2017.
**The e-survey, which was conducted between September 2016 and June 2017, includes responses from 558 high school students who took an SAT course with Kaplan.
The ACT® is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. The SAT® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this product.
To schedule an interview about Kaplan’s survey results, please contact Russell Schaffer at russell.schaffer@kaplan.com or 212.453.7538.
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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Contact: Michael Tague, michael.tague@kaplan.com, 212.974.2785
Twitter: @KapTestNews, @KaplanNCLEX
New York, NY (September 5, 2017) — Kaplan, the world leader in test prep, has announced the most realistic computer adaptive NCLEX-RN® practice exam available for aspiring nurses.
Kaplan’s Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) for NCLEX-RN® offers the highest level of realistic prep for the high-stakes exam, which determines if an entry-level nurse should receive his or her license to practice nursing:
“When it comes to passing the NCLEX-RN®, the way you take the exam is just as important as mastering the content,” said Dr. Susan Sanders, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Vice President at Kaplan Nursing. “Experiencing the actual CAT format is the best way to manage anxiety and optimize your critical thinking.”
To provide an experience as close as possible to the actual exam, Kaplan’s CAT program is fully adaptive: students are presented with questions that increase in difficulty as they answer correctly and become simpler when they answer incorrectly. Also like the real exam, Kaplan’s CAT will “shut off” anywhere between the minimum required 75 questions and the maximum possible 265 questions once the computer has determined with confidence that the student is above or below a minimum standard.
According to Kaplan research,* nursing students say practice questions are among the most important factors in an “ideal” NCLEX® prep solution. As Kaplan’s CAT draws on a bank of thousands of questions, each testing experience is uniquely adapted to their performance. In addition, students will gain an understanding of areas they need to improve prior to test day through instant feedback on their performance on every item tested.
With Kaplan’s new resource, students can experience the CAT three times. Students can access Kaplan’s CAT for one month, two months, three months, or six months, with reduced pricing available September 5 through September 25, 2017.
For more information, please visit Kaplan Nursing’s website. A Facebook Live event about Kaplan’s CAT, with an interactive discussion and question-and-answer session with Jenny Collins, RN, MSN, MBA and Kaplan NCLEX® Nursing Instructor, will be held on Tuesday, September 5 at 2 PM EST on Kaplan’s NCLEX Prep Facebook page.
*Kaplan Nursing conducted a survey of 200 nursing students in July 2017.
NCLEX-RN® is a registered trademark of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc, which does not endorse this program.
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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Note to editors: Kaplan is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC)
Press Contacts: Russell Schaffer, russell.schaffer@kaplan.com, 212.453.7538
Caroline Medeiros, carolinem@chegg.com, 408.785.2028; Twitter: @KapTestNews, @Chegg
New York, NY and Santa Clara, CA (August 28, 2017) — Kaplan Test Prep, a premier provider of educational test preparation services and Chegg (NYSE: CHGG), the leading student-first connected learning platform, have partnered to develop affordable, high quality test prep services available exclusively through Chegg. As part of the partnership, Kaplan becomes the exclusive test prep partner for Chegg.
Starting today, Kaplan’s industry-leading comprehensive prep courses, practice products, and books for the GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MCAT®, SAT®, and ACT®, will be offered on Chegg.com alongside Chegg Tutors, Chegg’s 24/7 online expert tutor matching service. Later this year, Kaplan and Chegg plan to release new online test prep programs designed to affordably meet the needs of test-takers who want best in class course instruction, at lower costs, beginning with GMAT, SAT, and GRE options. These new programs will be sold exclusively by Chegg.
“Making educational advancement a reality for as many students as possible is a shared mission of both Kaplan and Chegg, and we couldn’t be more excited about this partnership. Chegg’s student-first approach of making education more affordable, accessible and successful for students while providing high-quality products makes us a powerful team,” said Lee Weiss, vice president, Kaplan Test Prep. “With Chegg’s extensive distribution network, Kaplan’s world class content, and our joint focus on technology, we expect to provide students with all the test prep offerings they need in one place.”
The partnership is expected to resonate with Chegg’s audience of millions of value-driven students who will be offered affordable new test prep programs, launching later this year, starting at $99. These products will include 1,000+ practice questions through a customizable quiz bank and realistic full-length online practice exams. Exams will come with performance analysis powered by Kaplan’s Smart ReportsTM learning technology, which helps students identify opportunities for improving their scores. Additionally, students will get access to Kaplan’s most popular strategy sessions taught by high-rated faculty members in an engaging online classroom. Kaplan programs are informed by proprietary research showing that in test prep, the inclusion of realistic, full-length practice in a test-like environment is critical to success — and also that students value live instruction by a motivating teacher. Both are included in the offerings available on Chegg.com
Chegg and Kaplan will guarantee the effectiveness of these products with a Satisfaction Guarantee, providing students with the opportunity to study again for free if they have not yet achieved their goal scores. Students will be able to choose between a $99 offering or more premium package offering with more content and longer study time.
“Millions of students take standardized tests every year. Affordable and accessible test prep options are critical to making sure every student can be set-up to achieve success with their education. This partnership answers the call for more affordable options; Chegg users will gain unparalleled access to engaging and motivating test prep services, giving them an unmatched learning experience. Both Kaplan and Chegg share a like-minded mission of putting students first and together we can provide best-in-class learning services. We are thrilled to partner with Kaplan, as there is no better provider of test preparation products with a proven track record of improving students’ academic outcomes,” said Nathan Schultz, Chief Learning Officer, Chegg.
Visit Chegg.com/TestPrep to learn more.
Test names are the property of the respective trademark holders, none of whom endorse this program.
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
About Chegg
Chegg puts students first. As the leading student-first connected learning platform, Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more information, visit www.chegg.com
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This press release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including that Chegg and Kaplan plan to provide new programs later this year. Therefore, actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. For information regarding other related risks, see the “Risk Factors” section of Chegg’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 39, 2017 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on July 31, 2017, and Chegg’s other SEC filings. You can obtain copies of Chegg’s SEC filings on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or at Chegg’s Investor Relations website at investor.chegg.com. The forward-looking statements included herein are made only as of the date hereof, and Chegg undertakes an obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason except as required by law.