Frequently Asked Questions

• WHAT is This Course and WHY is it Different Than Any Other?
• WHO is This Course For?
• HOW is The Course Designed?
• WHO Teaches The Course?
• WHERE is the Course Offered?

WHAT is This Course and WHY is it Different Than Any Other?

This is a support course that is designed to build confidence and competence in test taking by teaching easy to learn strategies along with direct SAT materials and interactive instruction straight from the College Board, all but guaranteed to allow for fast, confident learning and results that show up on test day. It was created by a biology teacher, who worked for the United States Department of Education, wrote questions for the ETS (Educational Testing Service) which creates the SAT, as well as a near perfect scorer on the SAT. These strategies come straight from the inside realm of test question writers as opposed to someone collecting information and studying the information for trends. The course is taught by a former Division I Athlete, (football) who graduated early, received several masters degrees, a teaching certificate, a principals certificate, attended Yale,Harvard and taught at two universities. He was a curriculum writer and master trainer with Tony Robbins, and mentored by Steven Covey. He has been a motivational speaker, and trained and spoken at over 1000 events in the last 15 years. He has trained in over 600 schools and businesses across the United States and has worked with several education ministries abroad as well as the United Nations. His students, as a Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner score anywhere from 100 to 500 points better after following the strategies taught in the course.

WHO is This Course For?

First time SAT test takers, those who have taken the test already, PSAT students, College Talent Identification Program Candidates)  Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors who are thinking about attending college  Seniors who have waited to the last minute to take the test and need a boost to obtain the highest score possible  Students who have not yet decided that they want to attend college  Students who have taken the SAT and or ACT and want a higher score

HOW is The Course Designed?

The course is designed to teach students:  Tested strategies to deconstruct and demystify the test so students can easily respond to questions and increase their propensity for correct answers  Easy methods for remembering the strategies they learn and  A classroom structure that quickly builds confidence and readiness for the approaching tests by helping students develop target schools, target scores (this allows them to calculate how many questions they must answer versus struggling to answer every question and potentially selecting incorrect answers) and target attitudes.

WHO Teaches The Course?

The Course is taught by facilitators who qualify as learning specialists. They teach more than SAT/ACT, strategies, they teach kids how they learn best, how to learn new material fast and how to remember older material for quick recall. The teachers must be a facilitator of learning and must love the challenges of test taking; (…emphasis on ability to facilitate) thus, not everyone who wants to teach this course will.

WHERE is the Course Offered?

“The Course” is generally taught in Raleigh on NC State’s Campus for a wide variety of students from numerous high schools across the state. The course is for individually registered students who obtain and own all of the home study materials and who get unlimited access to future classes. There are and will be other classes held at other locations to include surrounding cities having a minimum enrollment; done in three days typically from a Friday to a Sunday afternoon. Ultimately, the course can be held almost anywhere there is access to a class like or comfortable area where students can and be interactively taught the materials. Class sizes will in most cases be held to 50 students with the ideal being 20-30 as this plays a part in the location The structure can be tailored to be completed over several days straight or over a series of days on a regular schedule.