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.

ISEE Upper Level 7 Full-Length Practice Tests

Piqosity now offers 7 full-length practice tests for the ISEE Upper Level private school admissions exam. In total, students have access to more than 3,000 practice questions lasting upwards of 50-hours. No other publisher offers more content than Piqosity for the ISEE Upper Level¹. This seventh, full-length practice test is available now at no-extra [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:16:49-05:00December 4th, 2017|ISEE: Upper Level|

New Feature – View Student Account as Educator

Tutors and teachers with Piqosity educator accounts can now "impersonate" their students. This new feature allows educators to view and use one of their student's accounts as if they were that student. This feature is particularly helpful in order to see all of a student's past practice or troubleshoot account issues. Before this update, educators [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:17:09-05:00November 16th, 2017|Teachers & Tutors|

Now Offering ISEE Lower Level Practice Tests and Problems

For the ISEE Lower Level, Piqosity now offers 6 full-length practice tests! Students can take these tests straight through under timed conditions or pause and resume at their leisure. For added flexibility, the tests can be even broken up and used as a 1000-item question bank, which automatically adapts to a student's strengths and [...]

By |2017-11-15T13:19:59-06:00November 15th, 2017|ISEE: Lower Level|

Mississippi National Merit Semifinalists 2018

National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has announced the semifinalists in their 63rd National Merit Scholarship Program. Semifinalists are current high school seniors who took the PSAT in October of 2016 and scored among the top 1% in their respective states. To win the coveted “Semifinalist” designation in Mississippi, students must have earned a “selection index” [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:30:38-05:00September 21st, 2017|Piqosity News|

ISEE Upper Level Practice Questions

The Upper Level Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is the standardized test required by many private schools for students applying to grades 9-12. The ISEE is administered by the Educational Records Bureau (ERB). Piqosity currently offers 6 full-length practice tests plus 2,000 practice questions. In total, students can work through the equivalent of nearly [...]

By |2017-06-30T12:06:09-05:00June 30th, 2017|ISEE: Upper Level|

Enhancements to the Student Dashboard and Practice Tests

We've rolled out a massive update today to improve the student experience on Piqosity. At the centerpiece of the update is a simpler student dashboard, which highlights the four primary ways to work practice ISEE, ACT, and SAT problems - adaptive practice, assignments, full-length tests, and previously worked questions. Ways to Practice ISEE, ACT, [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:18:23-05:00May 15th, 2017|Piqosity News|

ISEE Math Review – Circles

A circle is a perfectly round geometric shape which you will see again and again in your studies of math concepts. You will need to have an understanding of its diameter, radius, circumference, area, arcs, and sectors. You will also work with objects that are tangent to a circle and what that means. Diameter [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:19:20-05:00May 3rd, 2017|ISEE: Upper Level Math Review|

ISEE Math Review – Matrices

A collection of numbers (called entries) contained within a pair of [ ] brackets is called a matrix. A matrix is labeled by a variable, which is usually a capitalized letter. In a sense, matrices are like sets of data, except that a matrix is made up of rows and columns of data as [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:19:48-05:00May 3rd, 2017|ISEE: Upper Level Math Review|
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