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Master Test Anxiety (Part 6)

Steve Schecter
November 23, 2025

The Bigger Opportunity in Mastering Test Anxiety 

Does your teenager get anxious on big tests like the SAT and ACT?

Do they do ok in the classroom, ok in practice, and then fall flat come test day?

Your teenager can turn this challenge into an opportunity for success -- not just on the SAT or ACT, but for life!

The Rewards of Learning to Handle Pressure

What are the rewards for learning to handle pressure?

We bring poise and self-confidence into all of life's challenges.

Learning how to handle pressure is the bigger opportunity in SAT / ACT training.  

It's the skill that serves us well when our SAT / ACT score is a distant memory.

Encourage your teenager to approach the SAT / ACT game in such a way as to make them master of all the games of their life. 

The Gift That’s Hidden in the Challenge 

This is the key gift the SAT and ACT offer your teenager: challenge.

Just as we get stronger lifting weights, we grow when we take on and master a challenge.

And if we train for the challenge in a certain way, we are actually training our minds.

By mastering a game and conquering a challenge we are developing successful habits of thinking, feeling and learning. 

The Bigger Opportunity – Build Habits for Lifelong Success

This is the bigger opportunity i mentioned in the beginning of our time together:

the opportunity for your teenager to transform their struggle with the SAT or ACT into a training experience that can help them build habits for lifelong success.

  • Habits of thinking -- they can build an expanded view of their potential
  • Habits of feeling -- they can approach life's challenges with poise and self confidence
  • Habits of learning -- they can learn to master any learning challenge they face

Thinking bigger, self-confidence, learning mastery -- all add up to unlocked potential for your teenager.

And for you, the biggest advantage of all -- peace of mind, knowing that this worrisome obligation -- the SAT or ACT -- has been turned into an opportunity for growth. 

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