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On Negativity and Dealing with Struggles on the SAT and ACT

elizabeth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:26:03 +0000

Barbara Ann and I are back again with this permanent page about coping with and overcoming negativity in competitive arenas. Please check out part three of my interview with this Gold Medalist Olympian here.

U.S. Olympic Team Website Features Me and Barbara Ann Cochran

elizabeth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:39:23 +0000

Many of you know that I’ve been teaming up with Olympian Barbara Ann Cochran to talk about the mental tenacity it takes to prepare for the SAT and ACT. Well, I’m thrilled to report that the U.S. Olympic Team got wind of this and has done a little feature about our work together on their site. You can read the article here.

Test Day Tomorrow!

elizabeth — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:52:25 +0000

This time I’m in it with you– I’m registered and ready for tomorrow’s SAT Reasoning Test (and feeling the pain of the 7 a.m. alarm clock already). Here’s what we’re going to do: we’re not going to obsess about the test today. No cramming. No freaking out.

Tomorrow we’re going to bring our tickets and IDs and #2 pencils (they say you’re not allowed to use a mechanical pencil, so I’d bring the old fashioned kind in case you have a stickler proctor). We’re leaving the cell phones at home, because if it rings, buzzes, or you’re seen touching one during the test you’re out the door no questions asked.

We’re going to bring a snack or two, like peanut butter crackers and a banana (not a donut) and definitely a bottled water, too.

And if you’re stressed out, you may want to look into the latest piece of my ongoing series with Barbara Ann Cochran, Gold Medalist and Coach Extraordinaire– she can help you sort out what all the panic is about and how to get past it here.

Olympic Gold? She knows what she’s doing…

elizabeth — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:56:42 +0000

I wanted to take this opportunity to announce an exciting series of interviews I’ll be doing with Barbara Ann Cochran, an Olympic Gold Medalist and incredible performance coach for young athletes. While it goes without saying that you’ll be stuck on test day if you’re struggling with math basics and grammar fundamentals, mentally surviving the test day is also a huge challenge. With the incredible pressure put on students to achieve high scores on the SAT and ACT, I thought it was important to start really looking into what it takes to perform on these tests and figure out how to articulate what makes standardized tests easy for some and difficult for others.

Our first conversation deals with the importance of mental preparation and what you can do to start preparing now for your test experience, whether you’re taking it in a few weeks or months down the line.

You can find the first part of our conversation here.