Beseeched by PWNtheSAT and proctored by mom, 11th grade son agreed (reluctantly) to take a full, timed 11th hour practice test before test day.
It helped.
And trust me when I say, no one wants to do a FULL TIMED Read More →
Progress Report
Post-PSAT Ruminations
Overheard son on phone telling his father about the PSAT today: “It was fun.”
He will probably never admit to saying this, but I did get explicit permission to repeat it.
If I achieve nothing further on this project, at Read More →
How We Learn
Is Motivation Innate? Or Can “Drive” Be Cultivated?
I’m sure I might seem like the kooky “SAT lady” — but if the truth be told, my obsession actually started out as an attempt to motivate my son (possibly ill conceived, I now realize). From the get-go though, the Read More →
Tips
Motivating A Teenager to Study For the SATs
Even though this is my Perfect Score Project — and definitely not my son’s (though it sure would be nice if he did better as a result of my SAT obsession) — figuring out how to motivate a non type-A Read More →
Home Life
Positive Addiction
Is it possible to cultivate a positive addiction in oneself or one’s children?
I read this story in the New York Times about a Type A teenager named Omika Jikaria who goes to Stuyvesant High School and does 3-4 hours Read More →
