Fifteen years of focusing only on high scorers has taught us a lot about what they need, as well as what they don’t need. In our experience, students who are already scoring 80% and above do not require lots of practice tests to drill content. Nor should they focus on short-cuts designed to “beat” the test, since those tactics will backfire on the harder questions that are so crucial to raising a high score yet higher. Bodsat Prep has instead built a program that focuses on:Careless HabitsThe most difficult questionsPacingTest AnxietyThis is not easy stuff to teach! Bodsat students must learn how to spend as much time analyzing their work as they spend doing problems. Ultimately, they must learn how to learn, about the test and about themselves as test takers. In short, they must become their own coaches. This metacognitive approach to propel high scores still higher requires intelligent, empathetic, highly experienced teachers. That is why Bodsat’s instructors came to us with 10-30 years teaching experience, and then spent a year training in the Bodsat Method before they began teaching Bodsat students.The results? After the program, students gain half of the points remaining to a perfect score. History Established in 2007. Justin Sigars and Megan deVries have built Bodsat slowly, hiring tutors with on average 20 years of test prep experience and then training them in The Bodsat Method for One year before they teach students. Today we are a collection of six teachers, each of whom specializes in working with competitive students. Our motto is “empowering serious learners.”
