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?
For Successful College Acceptance
So as December 15th rolls around and most are preparing for the holidays, December has a different meaning to the high school senior. On or around December 15th is that fateful day when your early decision email should arrive. Are you in? Are you done? Are you deferred or, even worse, have you been rejected?
Life, Liberty, and the LSAT
Making a Murderer brought national attention to the possibility of wrongful convictions and to the legal skills needed to avoid them. Because the legal skills needed to prevail in court are also those tested on the LSAT, one of the pivotal LSAT topics was shown to be critically important to Brendan Dassey’s life and liberty.
