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Take a Break 1 Jul 2013 | 11:48 pm
Many students work very hard during the school year. Though there’s work to do in summer, it’s important to give kids a break to recharge their batteries. The break shouldn’t be all summer, but give k...
Timing and Strategy 11 Apr 2013 | 08:32 pm
The following is a multiple choice question: If you consistently have trouble finishing a section on a standardized test, you should: (A) Rush through early questions to get to late ones. (B) Spend a ...
Exactly How Much Tutoring Your Child Needs 25 Jan 2013 | 01:53 am
We don’t know. No one knows how much tutoring is needed until a student takes a mock exam and starts getting tutored. Sometimes good grades mean a student will have an easy time on a standardized test...
Breaking a Cold Streak 9 Jan 2013 | 05:46 pm
It’s been a while since my last blog post. A book release, the holidays . . . there was always a reason not to write. Weeks went by and still no new blog. It wasn’t until I scheduled a time in my cale...
Getting Caught Up in My Own Anxiety 4 Dec 2012 | 10:52 pm
Last week I experienced what my students must feel before their exams. I was a guest speaker (typist?) on an hour-long twitter chat to promote my book, Test-Prep Sanity. A twitter chat is just an onli...
Test Prep Sanity Launches Nov. 7th! 23 Oct 2012 | 08:50 pm
The most important lesson I’ve learned in my 14 years of tutoring for standardized tests is that material is at most half the battle. It’s students’ attitudes that make the difference between scores t...
Practice Makes Perfect . . . Sometimes 16 Oct 2012 | 05:46 pm
Yes, practice can make perfect, but only if you practice the right way. In Taylor Clark’s fascinating new book, Nerve, psychology researcher Gary Klein debunks the myth that experience on its own is n...
Why Some Students Hate to Read 9 Oct 2012 | 07:13 pm
It’s the Vocabulary I started with a new reading student last week who “hates to read” and “refuses to pick up a book.” As we went through some passages together, I saw why: she doesn’t understand hal...
You’re Only Using Half Your Weapons! 3 Oct 2012 | 06:25 pm
How to Improve Reading Comprehension Many students struggle on the hardest reading comprehension questions, or they hit a plateau where their score stops improving. The problem is usually in their app...
Score Killer III – The Worst Mistake You Can Make 21 Sep 2012 | 06:06 pm
Studying for the Wrong Test For many students, the problem isn’t that they’re not studying enough, it’s that they’re studying for the wrong test! They study as they would for a school exam: They go ov...
