Grockit Announces Free SAT and ACT Test Prep Service To Help Raise Nationwide Test Scores. Millions of SAT and ACT Students Everywhere Can Use Grockit’s Online Game to Learn From Peers and Study with Experts.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2009 — Grockit (www.grockit.com), a new online social learning game company, announced today that it will is offering its SAT and ACT online test prep and learning game services for free to help students across the nation to raise their scores.  Grockit’s test prep program is a more engaging and smarter way to prepare for the SAT or ACT, using online social game play that allows students to practice with and help each other and to learn with experts.  As part of the offer, students who sign up now for Grockit’s test prep service can practice SAT and ACT questions as often as they want for free while playing in real-time with other students in a social and interactive web environment.

“Standardized test scores are falling across the U.S., which indicates a need for better test prep. Grockit offers a more engaging way for students to prepare for and succeed at standardized tests and now they can do it for free,” said Farb Nivi, founder and CEO of Grockit.  “One of the best resources for a student in any class is their classmates and education as an institution is failing to recognize this. In our more social model, SAT and ACT students can be a part of a community of peer learners. We want to help students everywhere improve their scores.”

Beginning with an advanced diagnostic analysis, Grockit for the SAT and ACT helps students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, then allows them to tailor a personalized study plan to master weaknesses and augment strengths. As members of the Grockit learning community, students can then choose from or to combine three routes of study:

Alone: Students play a game that provides complete diagnostic analysis on the student’s strengths and weaknesses. Grockit then adapts to each individual, feeding questions and study material that optimizes a student’s study time.

With peers: Students practice with other students in live games and study groups. Peers serve as a primary learning resource and knowledge is reinforced when students teach each other what they know.

With experts: Students have access to experts on a range of topics where shared knowledge allows them to hone the areas where they need improvement. Grockit offers students unprecedented transparency and full view into experts’ scores, strengths and weaknesses.

Additional community and interactive features of Grockit include:

Points and Leaderboards: Grockit incorporates two point systems, which serve as reputation-like indicators: Experience Points (XP) and Grockit Points (GP). A player earns XP by answering questions correctly and GP by teaching other players in the games.

Performance Statistics: Students can view and opt to share their performance statistics. This data provides students with test, section and skill feedback on their performance.

Diagnostics, Quests, and Badges: By answering questions in collaborative games, players work towards unlocking certain solo activities. Diagnostics include a fixed set of questions designed to generate an initial assessment of the student’s current ability level. Quests can be unlocked through subsequent collaborative game-play and are designed to provide students with targeted practice. Students are awarded badges for various accomplishments, such as the completion of Diagnostics and Quests.

IM/Chat: Students can chat in real-time with other students keeping them more engaged.

Students interested in signing up for Grockit for the SAT or ACT can visit: http://www.grockit.com/sat or http://www.grockit.com/act.

About Grockit
Founded in 2006 with the vision to leverage the social web and to take learning out of the classroom, Grockit offers test prep and learning games that optimize how students study. It offers students a fun way to study and leverages the best of the web. Led by an innovative and expert management team, Grockit is an exciting young company that is poised to change the status quo in test prep and the educational process. Grockit has raised $10.7 million in venture financing and is backed by Benchmark Capital and Integral Capital Partners and angel investors including Reid Hoffman (founder, LinkedIn) and Mark Pincus (founder and CEO, Zynga).