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Play videogames or study for the SAT, now you can do both photo

Did I study rigorously for the ACT when I was in high school? Hell no. I was far too busy leveling up my party in the .hack// series to read through some boring test prep booklet. Yeah, it probably hurt my score somewhat, but the siren song of videogames was just far too strong for me to ignore. Also, I tend to just hate studying in general.

If you happen to enjoy studying as much as you like playing videogames, and need to take the SAT at some near point in the near future, then Aspyr Media’s futureU might be something to look into. Promising to “sharpen and challenge skills” through a series of mini-games, futureQ sounds rather like a more academically serious Brain Training. Here are the subjects you can expect the game to cover:

  • Reading: Focuses on refining players' reading skills, vocabulary, main idea identification, themes and arguments, technique, and recognizing word meanings based on context.
  • Writing: Concentrates on improving players' writing skills by covering topics such as passive voice, run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, conjunctions, fragments, coordination and subordination, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, tenses, adverbs and adjectives, gerunds, idioms, wrong words, and double negatives.
  • Math: Enable players to practice critical math areas such as algebra, geometry, data, statistics, probability, polynomials, and sequences.


I find myself doubtful that these educational games could really be all that fun, but if they end up helping some people stomach studying long enough to get into a good college, good for them. futureU is available now for the PC and Mac at an SRP of $39.99.


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Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 09/04/2008 22:04
I think I was playing Eternal Sonata when the ACT rolled around.
MrSadistic's Avatar
MrSadistic at 09/04/2008 22:06
pretty sure the answer is eleventy-bajillion
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 09/04/2008 22:16
-10
Celdurant's Avatar
Celdurant at 09/04/2008 22:33
A friend of mine and me skipped studying for our AP Calc exam last year and instead played Warhawk. Since we both passed, I can only assume playing videogames actually helps test scores, not hurt them =x
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 09/04/2008 23:19
Scratch that, -30. Was thinking sum, not product.
EatonTJ's Avatar
EatonTJ at 09/04/2008 23:34
Sucks for you there is no edit feature...
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 09/05/2008 00:50
Um, isn't it negative six?

-1 * -2 * -3 = -6, the greatest integer you could make using those criteria.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 09/05/2008 04:37
I'm with Dexter. -6 seems right.
HiDefLoMein's Avatar
HiDefLoMein at 09/05/2008 11:00
-1 is not a prime. The answer is -30 (-2 * -3 * -5)
HiDefLoMein's Avatar
HiDefLoMein at 09/05/2008 11:01
Err... I meant "1 is not prime" so you can't use -1.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar
TrailerParkJesus at 09/05/2008 11:36
lol high school
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