Is your teenager a great student who happens to be bad on big tests?
Is the SAT or ACT giving them a surprisingly hard time?
Is there a big mismatch between their stellar grades and their weak test scores?
Your teenager can turn this challenge into an opportunity for success – not just on the SAT, but for life!
Here's what we've established previously (in part 2) about what may be holding your teenager back.
The big reason for the mismatch between students' grades and test scores is that getting great grades and scoring high on standardized tests are two different games.
And the problem is that students go about training for the SAT or ACT in the wrong way -- as if they were intelligence tests, instead of what they are -- games of skill!
So, let's start correcting the problem.
Here's what you might say to your teenager.
First: Embrace the SAT or ACT as a game of skill.
Second, let go of the idea that this is about how smart you are. It's just about learning how to play your game!!.
Third, recognize that different people master different games at different paces.
One game might take us longer to learn than another -- and we can end up being great at both!
And if you see other people mastering their SAT / ACT game very quickly, you don't have to care about that one bit.
You don't need to worry about their game.
The only game you need to concern yourself with is your own.
In the next part of this article (part 4), I'll share with you how Heather, a former student of ours, closed the gap between her grades and test scores, and transformed her initial SAT / ACT struggles into success!
