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.

Automated E-Mail Notifications

We've implemented a series of automated e-mail notifications to improve your user experience. Here's what they are and also how to turn them off. For Students New user verification and welcome Notification that a question you flagged has been addressed - if you flag a question for editorial review, you'll automatically get an e-mail when [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:37:21-05:00July 18th, 2016|Piqosity News|

Educators, We Want You

Students have now worked more than 10,000 practice questions on Piqosity, largely in tandem with classroom and one-to-one test preparation classes and tutoring. We seek tutors, teachers, and schools to partner with us on deploying Piqosity in the fall. Remember that as a beta product, we don't want your money just your feedback. Below and [...]

By |2016-06-21T17:37:32-05:00June 21st, 2016|Teachers & Tutors|

How to Update Your Profile and View Leaderboard

Piqosity now offers a Leaderboard so that you can see how you compare to the top performing students in your selected course. To get there, just click on "Leaderboard" at the top of the screen when logged into your learner account. We ranked students by how many points they have earned. Students earn points based [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:37:50-05:00June 1st, 2016|Piqosity News|

How to Flag Broken Questions

Piqosity is an open platform meaning that technically anyone can contribute content including the test prep questions for our current focus areas of ACT, SAT, and Upper Level ISEE. While we don't expect contributors to maliciously upload bad content, there are bound to be typos or technical glitches such as wrong answer choices or an [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:38:00-05:00May 18th, 2016|Piqosity News|

6000 Practice Questions for SAT, ACT, and ISEE

Piqosity now freely offers more than 6,000 practice questions for the SAT, ACT, and the Upper Level ISEE. These questions are the equivalent of nearly 18 full-length Upper Level ISEEs, 10 full-length SATs, and 7 full-length ACTs. Questions are adaptive and individualized to each student's needs. Piqosity automatically identifies the user's strengths and weaknesses and [...]

By |2016-05-04T16:35:45-05:00May 4th, 2016|Piqosity News|

Free Practice Tests for the Upper Level ISEE

With 3003 practice questions for the Upper Level ISEE, Piqosity now features the equivalent of 18.77 full-length practice tests for this popular independent high school admissions exam (click here for more information about the ISEE including test-taking strategies). The practice questions are separated into three primary categories: Verbal Reasoning (1675 questions), which includes synonyms, single, [...]

By |2016-05-02T18:18:17-05:00May 2nd, 2016|ISEE: Upper Level|

Week 10 Update

As of now, there are 5,750 questions on Piqosity. As we prepare for a public go-live, our contributors are rushing to post the equivalent of 10 full-length practice tests in the ACT, SAT, and ISEE: Test Questions/ 1 Test 10 Tests On Piqosity Now % Goal ACT 215 2,150 1,187 55% SAT 154 1,540 1,560 [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:38:20-05:00April 14th, 2016|Piqosity News|

How to Use Piqosity as a Student

With nearly 6,000 practice questions for the ACT, SAT, and Upper Level ISEE, Piqosity enables students to freely work through the equivalent of more than 10 full-length practice tests for these popular exams. Watch the 3-minute video below or scroll through the screenshots to learn how to utilize all of our great features. Using Piqosity is [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:47:15-05:00April 11th, 2016|Piqosity News, Teachers & Tutors|

Student Statistics and System Logic

We're putting the finishing touches on a big update for Piqosity; the Student Dashboard is just about to go live. Ostensibly, the dashboard is just a bunch of statistics laid out nicely. But it represents much more than that. With this update, Piqosity becomes much more intelligent as it is now able to direct [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:39:49-05:00April 11th, 2016|Piqosity News|
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