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Why you shouldn’t take test prep advice from Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson’s Test Prep Advice… Not to Follow Depending on how familiar you are with the Simpsons oeuvre, you might remember an episode where Mr. Burns decides that he needs a male heir in order to pass on his fortune. Naturally, Homer encourages Bart to audition for the part of Burns’ ...

Greg Norman and the Science of the Choke

Lessons from Golf and Test Prep: Performance Under Pressure Consider two seemingly unrelated scenarios: 1.  A professional golfer in the prime of his career, poised to finally win his first Masters, blows his six-stroke lead. Everything begins to unravel with a bogey on the 9th hole, and he ...

What we’re reading at AJ Tutoring: January 2015

"I'm just not a good reader."  "I'm not a geometry person."  We hear comments like these from our students all the time at AJ Tutoring, unfortunately.  While these may seem like harmless off-the-cuff remarks, they can reveal quite a bit about a student's mindset and attitude towards. ...

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