<p>I looked into applying to Yale from Britain. It seems I need to sit SAT/ACT exams to apply. The website doesn't seem to give much information about this. Does anyone have any advice on how I would go about sitting these exams? Where do I enter myself to sit the exams in the UK?</p>
<p>Will my British GCSE/A-Level qualifications be useless in applying?</p>
<p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>No, they understand UK qualifications and they are very important, you want mostly A*s or As at GCSE and 3As at A Level really, minimum.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com</a> is the site you want.</p>
<p>or actstudent.org. do you know which test you'll be taking? the requirements are different for each.</p>
<p>ACTs are a pain to register for in the UK... you can't do it on-line and have to contact the centre directly. It's not really worth it IMO, just do the SAT.</p>
<p>Thanks a ton for your help. Look like I'll just take the SAT then as it seems more convenient. What is the difference between the two anyway?</p>
<p>ACT is said to be more knowledge based whereas SAT is supposedly more skill based. I've only ever taken the SAT. The most important skills to take the SAT are the ability to work quickly and efficiently, comprehensive vocabulary, understanding of many of the most common english grammar mistakes, good reading comprehension/ability to analyze the purpose and central meaning of a passage, writing a succinct, very general essay in twenty five minutes, and solving simple (although on occasion tricky) math problems with a very high level of accuracy. </p>
<p>The ACT has a science section (mostly graph reading/interpreting, if i've heard correctly), which the SAT does not.</p>
<p>I see. Thanks for the info. Is there a period in which the SAT exams take place on the calendar or are the dates scattered all over the year? Would also like to know if there are any particularly good revision material. Cheers.</p>
<p>loads of revision stuff... the books off collegeboard are pretty good. Lots of exam sittings around the year (6/7??) its on the collegeboard site, under calendadr or something like that.</p>
<p>There's about one every month except during the summer break.</p>
<p>I found Kaplan's 12 Practice Tests particularly useful.</p>
<p>i would definitaley look into doing both test. For me, the ACT was easier, but if you dont do so well on the ACT, you dont have the send your scores. And I believe Yale requires either SAT + 3 Subject test of just the ACT... correct me if I'm wrong someone - but then, depending on which scores are better, you only have to send the best ones. Anyways check both out.</p>
<p>There are an absolute legion of SAT preparatory books available. Barron's, Princeton Review and Kaplan are the most used.</p>
<p>The blue book of 8 SATs that the college board publishes is very very similar to the actual exams. I found it to be representative practice. That and a little vocab was all i did to prepare, and it served me very well.</p>