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.

DSAT Course Known Issues

The SAT Digital Course is a work-in-progress. Please pardon our errors: Concept review lessons (text) are incomplete Piqosity Virtual Tutor will show construction messages for unfinished lessons Changing previously selected answers may not reflect correctly on the results page The progress report may not automatically update Teacher assignments of full-length tests may not display [...]

By |2025-02-15T11:16:23-06:00July 18th, 2024|App Alerts|

Free ACT Practice Tests, Full-Length

Piqosity's market-leading ACT prep course provides two, free ACT practice tests. Just like the actual ACT exam, these mock ACT tests are 215 questions long and immediately accessible: No credit card or phone number required Full-length and full-featured Self-scoring and auto-analyzing The 2, free ACT practice tests are in addition to a no-cost mini [...]

By |2024-06-21T16:06:53-05:00June 21st, 2024|ACT Test Prep|

Announcing Piqosity Virtual Tutor 2 with Remediation

Next-Level Personalization & Ease of Use With Piqosity Virtual Tutor 2 (PVT), Piqosity is now "next level" easy to use for individual students. To navigate through an ACT, SAT, or ISEE course, students need only click on the big, blue "Start Next Module" button on their dashboards. A new, color-coded progress bar visually tracks [...]

By |2024-08-26T15:45:08-05:00June 18th, 2024|Piqosity News|

Announcing Our ISEE Test Prep Video Course

Our ISEE Upper Level online test prep now includes an available Premium Video Course with over 7 hours of instruction and guided practice split across 37 videos. The video course is meant to replicate a standard, in-person ISEE prep class but from the comfort and convenience of the student's home. Each of the ISEE [...]

By |2025-10-15T15:56:07-05:00June 14th, 2024|Piqosity News|

Announcing Major Summer App Update

We successfully deployed our most complex update ever to the Piqosity application on Thursday, June 13, 2024. These are the biggest changes existing users should be aware of: A New Student Questionnaire helps to orient students when they first log in. The Student Dashboard has been completely reimagined. Piqosity Virtual Tutor 2 (PVT [...]

By |2024-08-26T15:45:34-05:00June 5th, 2024|Piqosity News|

Announcing Our ACT Test Prep Video Course

Our ACT online test prep now includes an available Premium Video Course with nearly 15 hours of instruction and guided practice split across 62 videos. The video course is meant to replicate a standard, in-person ACT prep class but from the comfort and convenience of the student's home. Each of the 62 ACT prep [...]

By |2025-10-15T15:53:43-05:00April 18th, 2024|ACT Test Prep, Piqosity News|

College Admissions Interview Tips from the Interviewer

College admissions interviews are an opportunity for students to talk to an alumnus of their prospective school and showcase their personality as a factor in their admissions process. I've interviewed prospective candidates for Rice University—below, I’ll tell you about some of my interviews and explain to you some things you or your child should [...]

By |2024-04-30T11:01:57-05:00April 18th, 2024|College Resources|

App Update to Teacher Assignments

Happy holidays from all of us at Piqosity! This morning our engineering team deployed a major update to the very popular Assignments feature whereby teachers can create assignments with both lessons and questions for students with due dates. We completely rewrote the backend code to improve performance and updated the user interface to be [...]

By |2024-08-22T11:53:58-05:00December 28th, 2023|Piqosity News|

App Update to Personalized Practice

Our engineering team took a break from the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping frenzy to push a big app update, particularly to the student features of Personalized Practice and Review Activities. Highlights from this update include: Personalized Practice is completely rewritten both with the student user interface and backend engineering. We updated [...]

By |2024-05-30T16:28:51-05:00November 29th, 2023|Piqosity News|
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