Preparing for one of the most important tests in your life isn't only about mastering content or utilizing fail-safe strategies to get you to the finish line...Taking the SAT, GMAT, LSAT, GRE or any other high-pressure test is also about knowing how to manage test stress. Consider these statistics:
• High test anxiety reduces one's ability to comprehend and retain material.
• Currently 30-35% of all college students are handicapped by test anxiety.
• Research shows that reducing test anxiety improves test performance by as much as 12 percentile points.
• Studies demonstrate the effectiveness of relaxation training -- particularly that incorporating music, a primary stress-management tool for young adults -- for secondary and college-age students.
In addition to a comprehensive and rigorous preparation of test material, which we provide at Test Prep New York, it is important to take prep one step further: maximize your score by minimizing your stress and anxiety.
We have found that for the maximum success on these tests, it is necessary to combine traditional test preparation with cutting edge, integrative methodologies that target the causes of test anxiety. While research proves that a very small degree of stress might give you energy to help exam performance, an inability to manage it will devastate your test score.
Based on thoroughly researched human potential techniques, we have integrated methods that eliminate test anxiety and enhance retention, recall, concentration, focus and confidence which guarantees a student reach their physical, emotional and cognitive optimum at crunch time. We do this in our office, and through our proprietary Full Potential(tm) Audio series.
And no surprise, as an added value, the skills learned to reduce stress management are for the test, and for life.
Bara Sapir, MA
Executive Director
Test Prep New York
www.testprepny.com
Bara Sapirof NY1:04PM July 19, 2008
FREE CURE FOR ESSAYS, REPORTS, FCAT AND MORE
www.TheEasyEssay.com is a free site that can teach almost anyone how to organize an essay in 5 min. and is ideal for SAT, ACT, FCAT or essay exams, reports, or in any situation where you need to logically prove an idea.
Our concept is based on our belief that in most speaking, the majority of the conversation deals with one person telling the other person why something is true; that is, giving reasons for its validity. That is all that we ask you to do on this site, except in writing. We use the essay form because it is the most efficient form of organization available and we automate the organization so that you limit your statements to proving only the things that you have already stated were true.
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barry morseof FL11:00AM July 19, 2008
Since SAT / ACT performance counts for such a significant percentage of the entrance weighting it makes sense for students (and their parents) to consider all strategies. This year there's help at hand for boosting raw problem solving ability. Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl's study on Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April 2008) recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) of more than 40% after 19 days of focused training with a progressive dual n-back training method.
I was so impressed that I contacted the research team and developed a software program using the same method so that anyone can achieve these improvements at home.
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