Test Prep General

Imagine this for a moment: you’ve just been kidnapped, and your captors want to play a game. If you can solve a logic question, they’ll let you live. Otherwise, well, they won’t. It doesn’t really matter what the logic question is, but let’s just say you don’t know how to work through the logic or solve the question the “real” way. Are you just going to sit there and wait to die? Heck no, right?! So what are you going …

Someone I Care About Has Been Kidnapped! Read More »

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a perfectionist. This is not a good trait. My friend likes to say I have an “extreme reach barrier,” which simply means I become paralyzed, unable to act, because I have all these lofty goals. Reaching or aiming so high actually causes inaction because the greater the ambition, the greater the intimidation. I get overwhelmed. The lesson is, the vast majority of students (except the ones who have a realistic shot at …

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