“Jake said he finally is learning math concepts due to your SAT class.” A parent of a student from Guilford High School said to me a few years ago. Perhaps the biggest misconceptions propagated by those who do not understand the SAT (or ACT) is that the test can be beaten by “strategy.” Certainly there […]
Read MoreBack in the day when most Connecticut parents took the SAT, every score was consequential. Most students took the SAT once or twice and were advised not to take the test a third time as it would not be looked upon favorably. Despite all the overblown talk of stress that our high school students face […]
Read MorePublic schools in Connecticut will be offering an SAT to all students sometime in March. The test will be paid for by the state of Connecticut. This is a great opportunity to have a trial run at the new SAT. The timing of the College Board’s March 5 SAT has created an unprecedented issue. Many […]
Read MoreOur mission to help your children reach their potential. To me, this has always meant human potential. But certainly our focus in delivering educational services to Connecticut families is primarily academics. The tangible end goal – although by no means the real end goal – is college. During our SAT-ACT classes in Old Saybrook and […]
Read MoreWe will be starting our spring test prep class soon in Old Saybrook and Madison. Previously, The Learning Consultants held SAT full classes and then added ACT crash courses through the year. During the fall, we held an SAT-ACT Mastery Seminar at The Williams School in New London and then decided that we would do […]
Read MoreMany Connecticut students will be taking the SAT for the first time in March. This has been the case for the decade and a half that The Learning Consultants has been teaching test prep. But it is THE NEW SAT and so parents are losing their minds. i have taught long enough that I was […]
Read MoreAs we built College Counseling Connecticut, we noticed that many of our college counseling discussions quickly turned to financial discussions. In addition to the common questions related to financial aid, merit aid, and overall college expenses, the questions started to focus on “whether X college was worth it?” Since career counseling has always been a […]
Read MoreWhat madness am I suggesting? Let me start with the obvious: most Connecticut schools are stronger than most schools in most states. Those in the top 10% of schools such a Guilford High School, Daniel Hand High, Lyme-Old Lyme High School, East Lyme High School, Old Saybrook High School, Valley Regional High School (Essex-Deep River) […]
Read MoreMost Connecticut students will be taking the SAT in March. While it is the NEW SAT for all crazed parents, it is just the SAT for juniors as most never saw the old SAT. For those interested in the differences, I provided some comments in last Sunday’s Hartford Courant. The real question confronting many students […]
Read MoreOver the 15 years of providing educational services to parents of Connecticut high school students, I have gathered enough evidence to concur with most psychological studies that indicate resilience is the most or at least one of the most needed qualities for children to develop. Here’s the interesting part: children would develop resilience if it were […]
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