A comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores, these lessons avoid memorization and answering strategies and instead address the test-taker individually to determine what he or she needs personally to perform well at test time. Based on 40 years of teaching experience and 30 years of clinical psychology experience, this book distills the best practices used by elite athletes, artists, and top business performers to create a system that can be applied to any test, including the SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, licensing exams, finals, and even driving tests. The system trains users to be calm, confident, and focused: the durable and dependable “three legged stool” for successful performance. Also included are special chapters for parents and teachers to learn how to be helpful to their children and students as well as online access to additional test prep material for further study.
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“Offers straightforward and easy-to-learn methods for staying focused, relaxed and efficient under pressure. Based upon proven psychological strategies, Dr. Bernstein's approach is a real eye opener—and it works! Want higher test scores? This is the program you need.” —Thomas W. Phelan, PhD, author, 1, 2, 3 Magic
“Bernstein’s book deserves national attention. It is only a matter of time until that happens.” —Albert Johnson, former director, Young Adult Services, Los Angeles Public Library
“Dr. Bernstein’s advice is simple, effective and downright magical. This book will help parents learn how to support their student—no matter how test-phobic—through the gauntlet of standardized testing of middle school, high school, college, and beyond.” —Catherine Hunter, head, San Francisco Friends School
“Kaplan, Princeton Review, and College Board take note: Ben Bernstein is adding a major piece to the test prep puzzle.” —Sandra and Ian Griffin, Step into College series
“Bernstein has put together wonderful suggestions for tackling testing.” —Deborah Meier, author, In Schools We Trust
“I have seen Ben Bernstein help scores of students achieve peak performance when it counts. Test Success! is an astonishing rendition of what it is like to be coached personally by Dr. Bernstein.” —Charles N. Bertolami, dean, New York University
"I believe this book is a great tool that we parents can use to help our children to develop their confidence in taking tests and improve their performance even more." —Trish Lopez, www.theallaroundmom.info
"With a combination of proven test-taking techniques and stress management, Ben Bernstein's Test Success! can help any kid do his or her best." —Brian Nadel
About the Author
Ben Bernstein, PhD, is a psychologist, teacher, and performance coach whose career has spanned 40 years in education, psychology, and the arts, including coaching in such diverse settings as psychiatric hospitals, prisons, primary schools, and universities. He was invited to be a resource artist at the Sundance Institute, where he worked one-on-one with writers who subsequently went on to win Pulitzer Prizes, Tony Awards, and Academy Awards. He lives in Oakland, California.
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Test Success was my voice to my foster kids about how to be a successful student (ever try to tell a teen anything???). I made a deal: you read this book and do what it says or listen to me nag you. They read, their grades went up, attendance at school improved, confidence in their abilities went up. That alone is priceless!
As a college instructor for test anxiety/test skills classes, the workbook was a complete course outline-- approachable, not condescending (ever try to tell a college student anything???) or minimalistic. Every line was helpful information, examples, practical how-to's etc. Also, Ben's personal letter to the class was very impactful; they felt honored by his genuine outreach to help make their lives better. Students have asked administration to make it required reading- a miracle!
In my private practice, the relaxation skills were very helpful for my anxious clients and bridged over to an anger management group I ran. Multi-purpose!
Victims preparing for the court process found they could use the book to help them be calm, confident and focused amidst the terror of describing their trauma again.
I can't thank Ben enough for writing this book, except by using it everywhere I can. It gets results!
This book is beneficial to anyone in school. Whether you are in Middle or High School, College or have gone back to school as an adult, the cut right to it information is easy to follow.
Mr. Bernstein's section on Dealing with Distraction is worth the amount of the book. Distraction was my biggest culprit in school and the three tools Mr. Bernstein mentions Stop, Look At What You Are Doing, Listen and Fulfill are easy lessons to follow and will have you sitting up taller in your chair because your confidence level will get a much needed boost and your butt the kick in the pants it needs to really achieve what it is you want out of yourself.
Be the best you can be and with books like these you can't lose
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