About Shelby Joe

Shelby Joe 周 is the Founder of Piqosity. He has more than 20 years of experience in education as an entrepreneur, professor, and tutor. Shelby earned his BA in Political Science from Rice University. Born and raised in Mississippi, he now resides in Houston but has also lived in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hamburg.

TSI Assessment Practice Tests (TSIA2), Free & Full-Length

Piqosity, a Houston-based edtech company, now offers 4 full-length TSI practice tests, and they're currently available for free! These 4 tests are the first of six TSI practice tests which will go online between now and February 2025. The Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Assessment 2 is often taken by Texas high school students to [...]

By |2025-01-06T15:46:03-06:00January 6th, 2025|TSIA2|

How to Use This TSIA Prep Course

Here are some tips to prepare for the TSIA2 using Piqosity's resources. Piqosity is an edtech company based in central Houston, which we think makes us uniquely positioned to help you ace your TSIA2. Please note that as of January 2025, this course is a work in progress; we'll update this article as we [...]

By |2025-01-09T15:38:31-06:00January 6th, 2025|App Alerts, ZPQA TSIA|

Announcing Update to Test Review Page

We have significantly updated the results page shown after scoring each test or quiz in the app. The test review page now loads much faster on both initial load and when navigating between answered questions. Other enhancements include: Accuracy by Difficulty Chart Questions by Subtopic Answered Question View Answered Question Preview Results Sharing 1. [...]

By |2025-01-02T15:08:06-06:00December 9th, 2024|Piqosity News|

How to Make Standardized Tests Less Scary | Managing Test-Taking Anxiety

If you find that the thought of an upcoming exam causes your hands to tremble, dries out your mouth, or makes you feel out of breath, you may be one of the millions of students who have test-taking anxiety. An upcoming exam can feel like a ghost hovering behind your shoulder, but managing the [...]

Mississippi National Merit Semifinalists 2024-2025

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named 155 Mississippi high school seniors as National Merit Semifinalists in the 2024-2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition. These high-achieving students scored among the top 1% of Mississippi students who took the PSAT/NMSQT in October of 2023, which is essentially an "early edition" of the SAT taken for college [...]

By |2024-09-13T14:55:24-05:00September 12th, 2024|SAT Test Prep|

Student-Initiated Partner School Discounts

Would you like free access to Piqosity's College Prep Advanced course for ACT and SAT test prep? Are you a high-achieving student who knows how to advocate for your future? Thousands of students across the US are already enrolled at Piqosity Partner schools where they receive free or discounted access to our College Prep [...]

By |2024-09-09T13:42:10-05:00September 9th, 2024|Piqosity News|

PSAT Digital Practice Tests, Free & Full-Length

For the new Digital PSAT 10/11, Piqosity offers two, full-length PSAT practice tests completely free! Just like the real PSAT, Piqosity's digital PSAT is comprised of 54 Reading and Writing Questions and 44 Math questions. No credit card or phone number required Full-length and adaptive Completely free through September 19, 2024 We are also [...]

By |2024-08-26T15:33:39-05:00August 26th, 2024|SAT Test Prep, ZPQA ACT, ZPQA SAT|

Scheduled Downtime on September 2, 2024

The Piqosity application will be unavailable between approximately 3am and 5am Houston time on the morning of September 2, 2024. This downtime is necessary to upgrade our Amazon Web Services hosting environment to handle the exponentially increasing number of students using our app. This update is purely to our server environment. Outside of faster, [...]

By |2024-09-03T16:19:38-05:00August 23rd, 2024|App Alerts|

Digital SAT Practice Tests – Free, Full-Length, and Adaptive

Piqosity offers 12 Digital SAT practice tests, and these tests are currently available for free! Just like the real Digital SAT, Piqosity's full-length Digital SAT tests are comprised of 54 Reading and Writing Questions and 54 Math questions. No credit card or phone number required Full-length and adaptive 2 Free Digital SAT practice tests [...]

By |2024-09-23T13:35:39-05:00July 29th, 2024|Favorites, SAT Test Prep|

How to Tutor the ISEE, a Guide to Getting Started

ISEE (commonly pronounced "i-see") is an acronym that stands for the Independent School Entrance Exam, which is commonly taken by students applying to private schools in the United States. This peer-normed, standardized test is commonly taken by students applying to middle school (grades 5/6-8) and high school (grades 9-12). Students can also take the [...]

By |2024-07-30T12:40:13-05:00July 25th, 2024|ISEE Test Prep, Teachers & Tutors, ZPQA Teacher|
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