This blog is dedicated to helping students prepare for the major assessments and milestones in their academic lives. We provide tips and advice on how to best prepare for key tests, including SAT and ACT. We also cover subjects related to tutoring, studying and learning.
It can be tempting for high school students to spend all of winter break relaxing and avoiding school work. However, that’ll make the second half of the school year pretty tough. Winter break can be an excellent time to catch up on college applications or to do some remedial work before classes start up again. If your teen plans out an hour or two of work each day, he or she can accomplish a lot before heading back to school in January.
Read MoreSo, your son is no longer eight years old and learning how to multiply 5 × 2 or how to classify animals into mammals and amphibians. When he sits down at the kitchen table to do his homework at night, you see sine waves and notes on thermodynamic laws. And if he doesn’t understand some information he learned in school that day, he googles the answer or calls his friends because he knows there is no way that you can help him anymore. But being the great parent you are, you want to make sure he gets the help he needs, so you have decided to enlist the assistance of a private NYC tutor. Finding the right private tutor in NYC is no easy task, so here are some criteria that you should assess when interviewing candidates.
Read MoreThe summer can be a wonderful time for students, but going back to school after three months of vacation can be miserable! When your child goes from attending class five days a week to spending months away from school, summer learning loss starts to set in, which can make the transition back to school difficult. The summer learning loss a student can suffer in math is especially pernicious; not only may your child have to play catch-up for the first weeks of school, but your child may fall so far behind that he or she cannot keep up with the pace of the teacher and classmates as the semester progresses.
Read MoreWe prepare students for the milestones and assessments of their academic lives. We support students in developing the skills to think, learn and problem solve on their own. Our services include academic tutoring and test preparation for all standardized tests, including the ISEE, ACT and SAT.
