When To Choose Gemm Test Prep

There are three distinct ways that ACT and SAT scores can be improved:

1. Familiarity with content, tactics and strategies.
2. Building the underlying reasoning and cognitive skills being tested.
3. Performing well on test-day with test-taking skills, such as attention stamina and retention, honed to their very best.

Traditional SAT tutoring and any number of do-it-yourself web sites and books do a great job of covering the first category.

Gemm focuses on #2 and #3. The brain is plastic.  If exercised appropriately gains in the cognitive ability and test-taking skills is not only possible, it's probable.

Not only can our SAT test prep course boost test scores, but also the gains endure -- an often profound change that helps in the years following the SAT.   This is in contrast to hiring an SAT tutor which all about the test. There are no lasting gains.

That's not to say there is no value in signing up for a a traditional test prep class or having an SAT tutor come to your house.  There is, if only because it provides structure for a student's preparation for a high stakes test. Which is why Gemm Learning offers Daily Questions in partnership with Wilson Prep.

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And for local students looking for Westchester, NY test prep or Fairfield County, CT test prep, we provide regular in center ACT and SAT test prep strategy sessions in center.

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Do not under-estimate the potential for a boost!

Neuroscientists count 40+ different skills involved in the process of reading comprehension.   For most children, the overall learning mechanism is functioning well, but that is not to say that pretty much every child has a boost available to them somewhere in those 40 skills.

There have been a number of student trials where learning intervention software, brain re-wiring software built for remedial use, has been given to above grade level students -- in all cases those children have had similar types of boosts as with struggling learners.

Because there is so much inter-connectedness in learning -- for instance, weakness in language impacts development of reasoning skills -- small improvements can be powerful, with major ripple effects that impact all kinds of seemingly unrelated abilities.

This is what makes the relatively recent discovery of brain plasticity so exciting. The brain is malleable and able to adapt and improve.  One of the reasons for that nature has added this ability to the brain is because of this learning complexity -- almost nobody is born with all skills firing to their potential and so every brain needs to be capable of gains.   Hence the great trial results Fast ForWord has had with its gifted and talented classes.