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.

Free ACT or SAT Online Prep Courses for Public Schools

Piqosity offers market-leading online prep courses for the ACT and SAT with 10 full-length practice tests, dozens of concept lessons including videos, and a personalized e-learning platform that analyzes a student's performance and dynamically makes recommendations on next steps. Beginning September 6, 2021, these courses will no longer be entirely free to all registered [...]

By |2022-12-06T11:03:43-06:00August 31st, 2021|Piqosity News|

Tutors and Teachers – Join our Educator Referral Network

We are building Piqosity to be a paradigm-shifting, personalized, e-learning platform. However, there's currently no amount of technology that can replace a human educator's ability to empathize and inspire. As such, Piqosity's students generally use our platform in tandem with a qualified educator or a supportive parent. Therefore along with our September pricing update, [...]

By |2021-09-28T12:36:02-05:00August 23rd, 2021|Piqosity News, Teachers & Tutors|

Changes to Piqosity Pricing Fall 2021

Beginning September 6, 2021, we will be updating the fees we charge to access Piqosity's e-learning platform and first party content. This update is the only fee change we have ever made since collecting our first payment in 2017 for ISEE practice tests. In the intervening 4 years, we have developed Piqosity into so [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:55:56-05:00August 2nd, 2021|Piqosity News|

New Gamification Features and Learning Content Updates

This morning we completed our first summer update, which brings major app features and new content to Piqosity's quickly growing platform.  Gamifying Practice for Students Adaptive Practice Gamification is the most visible new feature for student users. Many students will find this new style of personalized practice to be more fun and engaging. The [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:56:02-05:00July 16th, 2021|Piqosity News|

When Should You Start Preparing for the ISEE Test

Students prepare for the ISEE private school admissions test year-round; however, assuming a January or February test date and application deadline, about a quarter of students will start preparing in summer; half—the majority—will start in fall, and the remainder will play catch-up in winter. But you should start preparing for the ISEE private school [...]

By |2022-06-23T16:54:01-05:00April 7th, 2021|ISEE Test Prep, ZPQA ISEE|

Free ISEE Diagnostic Practice Tests

Our Christmas update brings new, free ISEE practice tests for the Upper, Middle, and Lower levels and enhanced app performance! To keep up with surging student numbers, we gave ourselves the gift of new server hardware for Christmas. You'll notice the difference with these new AMD-powered servers in significantly faster loading times across the [...]

By |2021-09-28T12:42:13-05:00December 28th, 2020|ISEE Test Prep|

Introducing Animated Video Lessons

Several weeks ago we made a major update to Piqosity which introduced in-app concept review lessons across our ISEE, ACT, and SAT preparation courses. That initial batch of more than 100 lessons was mostly text and image-based. Today's update brings the first 20 videos--approximately 2-hours--on a broad range of math topics ranging from fundamentals like [...]

By |2020-11-12T09:30:16-06:00November 11th, 2020|Piqosity News|

Major Fall Update Introduces Concept Lessons

Early Friday morning we pushed a major software update to Piqosity which introduces Concept Lessons. These lessons allow students to brush up on tested academic concepts directly within the Piqosity application. For example, if an ISEE student doesn't quite understand the probability, they can now read a lesson walking them through the topic. Now [...]

By |2021-09-28T12:45:53-05:00October 16th, 2020|Piqosity News|

10 ISEE Practice Tests Available Now

Piqosity now offers a market-leading 10 full-length ISEE practice tests each for the Upper, Middle, and Lower level ISEE tests. No other content publisher comes close to offering this amount of ISEE practice tests*. Piqosity's tests are level-specific, meaning that there really are 10 tests for each level of the ISEE for applying to [...]

By |2023-01-11T14:36:30-06:00September 8th, 2020|ISEE Test Prep, Piqosity News|

How the Non-Profit ERB Test Administrator Got into For-Profit ISEE Test Prep Sales

On June 24, 2020, the Educational Records Bureau (ERB) announced an exclusionary marketing arrangement with the private, for-profit test prep company Test Innovators. Test Innovators charges $380 for access to the only official, full-length ISEE practice test. Piqosity believes that this exclusive dealing arrangement is unethical and potentially unlawful. A not-for-profit, supposedly independent arbiter [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:12:54-05:00August 31st, 2020|ISEE Test Prep, Piqosity News|
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