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Transform SAT/ACT Struggles into Lifelong Success
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Learn a better approach to your more challenging classes.
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Learn a better approach to practicing for the SAT and ACT.
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Learn a better approach to pressure situations so you can always play your best game.
Parents, These Are For You
Steve and Tom offer advice on how to support your teenagers as they strive to improve themselves.
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Aim For Perfection Without Ruining Your Life
"If you're using perfection as a club, remember this one thing: you're the one holding the club, and you can stop hitting yourself any time you want."
Have High Expectations Without Crippling Stress
"The idea of embracing a high goal and letting go of it may seem to be a contradiction—and it is! Great performers learn to do both."
Is Your Child Struggling with Key Stage 2 Maths?
If your child is struggling with Key Stage 2 maths material, here's how to address the problem before the SATs.

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Transform SAT/ACT Struggles into Lifelong Success

The Bigger Opportunity
We've used the challenge of the SAT / ACT to help teenagers develop successful habits of thinking, feeling, and learning-- habits that they can use for a lifetime. 
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Learning Habit 6: Learn the Moves
Start with the small skills that make a big game possible.
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Learning Habit 7: Master the Moves
Well...what ELSE would we be supposed to do after we learned the moves?
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Learning Habit 8: Refine the Moves
Once we've mastered the moves, we keep practicing to come up with new ways of doing them slightly more efficiently!
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Learning Habit 9: Love Your Game
Instead of trying to escape work and do what you love, you can learn to love what you do.
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Learning Habit 10: Play Your Biggest Game!
When you know how to learn, you can learn whatever you want!
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"Dudes Who Love to Work": Julius Randle and how Peak Performers Approach Practice
Dreading studying for the SAT, ACT, or final exams? Take a lesson about practice from the NBA's Most Improved Player Julius Randle and his coach, Tom Thibodeau.
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When Should Your Teenager Begin to Prepare for the SAT or ACT?
When does it make sense to start preparing for the SAT or ACT? Depends on your teenager’s goals, and how long they need to build up to their “A” game.
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What Type of SAT or ACT Preparation is Best for Your Teenager?
What type of test preparation will work best for your teenager? The answer actually depends upon how you answer this next question.
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The SAT, ACT And Test Optional Admissions: How to Help Your Teenager Prepare
Will your teenager really need to do well on the SAT or ACT? Steve discusses the trend toward "test optional" admissions and questions about the fairness of standardized testing.
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Is Your Teenager A “Just Okay” Student Who Needs A New Start On The ACT? Here's How You Can Help
If your teenager has never been the strongest of students and they're dreading the ACT, here's how you can help them get the new start they need.
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