How You Can Achieve Higher Scores For Higher Education
Dear Websurfer:
Just how important in the admissions process are your scores on admissions tests? On balance, a high score may not get you in There, but a low score may keep you out.
What do standardized admissions tests assess? What do they measure? Achievement, intelligence, aptitudes? Achievement, like chronological aging, is historically (indelibly) written in the record. Intelligence (Cognitive IQ) is polygenetic, immutably (for the time being) programmed in your DNA - your operating system. Just as self-awareness and effort can elevate Emotional IQ, and diet and exercise can alter biological aging, hard work can hone aptitudes.
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Everyone's potential in their particular pursuits probably has some, differing, finite, upper limits. But those limits are very difficult, if indeed possible, to measure. No one has ever been able to put a finite limit on one's potential for greatness. Why do you suppose the super-achievers and superstars in our midst have invested megahours and megabucks prepping with the finest aptitude coaches? Like the skills of champions, Nobel laureates, Olympic Gold Medalists, presidents, and virtuosos, test aptitudes can be honed by hard work and qualified coaching. Work with me and you can boost yours. You must work.
A Popular Myth
The notion that prepping for standardized tests is a waste of time and money is one of the most enduring and detrimental myths shared by some counselors, parents, teachers and beleaguered upper-school principals; people who are involved in the admissions process.
One naysaying upper-school principal of an elite private high school drafted a letter advising parents to forgo "expensive preps" and simply have their high-school students just "take practice SAT's." This plausible-sounding delusion is tantamount to advising the football, golf, soccer or tennis team to forgo "coaching" and just "pass, hit or kick a lot of balls." To just do the same thing over and over again and expect not only a different but a better result is insanity.
Some of my students have even doubled their scores.
Students can benefit from a quality, interactive prep in which the teacher is the motivating force and the facilitator rather than just the "font of knowledge." Many who fail to participate in such a prep often score lower than they would have otherwise. If they apply at all - and many do not for fear of rejection - they are often rejected by their college wish list. Many of my students - from average to honors - have improved their skills and scored high on their admissions test. You say they may have done so anyway. I do not deny the possibility. But the point is this. Many have upped their scores hundreds - that's right - hundreds of points higher than before. Some have even doubled their scores. These students have increased the range of universities and graduate programs that they may be eligible to attend. And so can you.
For Some, Test Anxiety Is Real
Just as fear of rejection is a reality in the admissions process, test phobia is a real phenomenon that afflicts many students; some are in the upper quintile of their classes. Some rank even higher. I have often witnessed their agony; sitting immobilized - gorgonized by their fear of failure. For some the angst is psychological; the sense of failure: "My parents will be so disappointed. What if I don't get into a decent college? My friends - I'll be the laughing stock." For others the anxiety is the realization that skills are lacking: "Fractions, percentages, averages, geometry, algebra, word problems, reading passages, vocabulary. Aggggh!"
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Whether due to pressure - sometimes a self-inflicted wound - to undeveloped skills or to unwarranted perceptions, anxiety is real. For many the test resembles Figure 1 above, a black box filled with Gordian knots (mythology: a difficult-to-solve problem). For you, PREP DOCTOR gives you the keys, the tools to cut through test anxiety and conquer the test.
Though you may have expected that at some point this bottom-notch
salesman was going to get your attention by ranting and raving about how
the text "I Have an Admission To Make" is a panacea that can . . .
- work and are easy to learn,
- will give you a new lease on math,
- will boost your word power and sharpen your verbal skills,
- will cause a breakthrough critical-reading barriers,
- improve your Standard Written English (composition),
- help you overcome the daunting fear of time constraints,
- you will not find elsewhere,
- will help you up your score,
- could make it possible for the college, graduate school or law school of your choice to choose you.
- For all you aspiring achievers who persevere and maintain a high grade-point average, only to be frustrated, demoralized and defeated by exams that erode your efforts, learn how to reap the benefits of your efforts.
Why did I write this book?
Our reaches in our pursuits and for our ultimate goals are often beyond our grasps. My students' successes have galvanized my desire to reach those beyond the scope of my classes and private tutorials by making the method accessible to Everyone. Moreover, many who have the yen for higher scores lack the yen (financial resources) to defray the cost of the tuition for a quality prep. I am hopeful that this Web site will enable us together to diminish the distance between our reaches and our grasps. So let's get started. We have an admission to make.
R. J. R.
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