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|

Mississippi National Merit Semifinalists 2020-2021

15% of Mississippi's National Merit Semifinalists attend the Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science For 142 Mississippi high school seniors, the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Competition brought good news: these super-smart students have earned the celebrated “Semifinalist” designation. In order to do so, they had to score among the top 1% of [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:30:31-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Piqosity News|

Free Online ACT and SAT Prep Offered by Houston Ed-Tech Startup

Piqosity, a Houston-based e-learning startup is making its online ACT and SAT practice tests, instructional videos, and prep guides freely available in response to the ongoing disruptions caused by Covid-19. Its comprehensive suite of e-learning tools enables college applicants to do their best on these high stakes tests. Piqosity includes 20 full-length SAT and [...]

By |2021-09-28T13:11:47-05:00November 18th, 2020|Piqosity News|

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|

Author McSwazey’s “Legacy Unbroken” and “Law of Averages” Adapted for ACT and SAT Prep

Our ACT and SAT practice tests contain adaptations from contemporary literature. Two of these adaptations are from a young, Houston-based author who goes by the pen name McSwazey. For SAT Reading Test practice, we adapted a passage from his second and newest story Legacy Unbroken. This riveting science fiction story chronicles a son's quest [...]

By |2021-10-26T05:41:49-05:00August 19th, 2020|Piqosity News, Teachers & Tutors|

Pursuing a Dream – Why I Founded Piqosity

A native Mississippian and 3rd generation Chinese-American, Shelby Joe explains his motivation for founding Piqosity. Shelby Joe (4th from left) with his Rice University students at the Great Wall of China. I started Piqosity, because I’m passionate about learning and about helping students and their educators achieve their aspirations. Shelby's Grandmother [...]

By |2020-09-16T17:44:55-05:00August 11th, 2020|Piqosity News|

Piqosity Asks ERB to Properly Disclose Payments from Test Innovators

On June 25, 2020, ERB announced an exclusionary marketing agreement with for-profit, Seattle-based, tutoring company Test Innovators. Piqosity was appalled by this unprecedented arrangement between a non-profit education consortium and a for-profit test-prep company and sent an open-letter to ERB’s President, Dr. Thomas Rochon.  Dr. Rochon responded on June 29, 2020. However, he fails [...]

By |2021-09-28T12:51:38-05:00July 20th, 2020|Piqosity News|
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