Summer Coding Camp
Coding is an ever increasingly valuable skill. Not only does skill in coding provide stable career prospects and a clear pathway to success, but coding can more-or-less be done anywhere in the world, thereby opening up an even greater degree of possibilities and opportunities for your children. The basics of coding that students learn will also help promote more general analytical thinking abilities and can particularly help propel them in their STEM education.
Grand Opening of Bernardsville Center
Come help us celebrate the opening of our new Bernardsville center. Complimentary food, credit toward future tutoring, and more!
The SAT’s New Adversity Score
Equality of opportunity and equity (fairness) of outcome are desirable. The SAT’s adversity score, however, is a misguided attempt at achieving this equality of opportunity and, in some cases, will work against equity of outcome.
The SAT Keeps Making Mistakes
I am a huge fan of standardized tests (if I were in front of a crowd, I can just imagine the chorus of booing and hissing that would immediately follow that opening statement).
The Variability of Performance
Occasionally a student’s SAT or ACT scores will stay the same or, in rarer cases, decrease from one test to the next. Why? And how can we avoid flat or lower scores?
Remedy for Testing Burnout
If it is between mid-junior year and beginning of senior year, it’s possible you have a teen who is VERY burnt out from SAT and/or ACT testing. If so, it’s too late to avoid it, so here’s how to throw ice on the burn.
Avoiding Test Burnout
If a student has quality preparation and works hard, then burnout is more-or-less the only factor that could keep them from their goals. But, just like we have control over receiving quality prep and working hard, we similarly have great control over avoiding test burnout. If we know how to do so. Here’s how, but, first, we need to understand why test burnout happens:
Custom End of Junior Year Testing Plan
Click the link below to input whether you will be taking the SAT or ACT and what your score goal is. We’ll tell you what the average student with your test and scores should do.
Focus on School Grades or the SAT/ACT?
We are constantly faced with choices and trade-offs. Interact on social media or study? Watch TV or go to the gym? Leave a note that you accidentally scratched someone’s car or drive away? Whether we choose to follow the right course or not, we usually know the productive, healthy, and ethical answer to most choices and trade-offs. But, what about the choice to study more for the SAT/ACT or for a school test the next day? What should we choose?