A Novel Tutoring Approach and Strategy
Our Don’t Think Too Much Approach and Strategy Involves the application of…
Our Praxis strategy
Known fundamentals
& scientific method
Our training approach and core strategy prepares students to answer questions with greater accuracy, speed, independence, and confidence. With Praxis Academic, students discover multiple ways of solving any given problem—ways that cater to their unique knowledge base and skill sets. Our approach builds on students’ strengths and improves their weaknesses.
With the Don’t Think Too Much Approach, students succeed in ways previously inconceivable—success that follows them throughout their academic and professional careers.
Whether just beginning test prep or wanting to take scores to the next level, the Don’t Think Too Much Approach allows students to realize their full potential.
1. You will not be reading entire passages or focusing on reading comprehension. Instead, you will learn how to cut through difficult and unfamiliar text and figures to focus only on what the question is asking.
2. You will not have to read between the lines or draw inferences with anything you read. “We draw conclusions on concrete data and evidence.”3. You will not get caught-up in or confused by the information in question-stems. You will learn how to use question-stem information with ease to answer questions. In fact, you will get to the point where you will use question-stems more than passage information to answer questions.
4. To simplify questions, you will learn how to be on point with information in question-stems, answer-choices, and passages to acutely focus on what test questions are really asking and not go beyond or think too much. “It takes questions to answer questions.”
5. You will learn when and how to apply fundamentals, and you will not have to go beyond the simplest fundamentals—we swear! “All math and science—no matter how complex—always boils down to the absolute fundamentals.”
6. You will learn how to analyze text like data, just as easily as figures, which means our minimal reading and comprehension strategy even works in reading comprehension sections!
7. You will learn how to use question-stems and answer-choices to precisely find, concisely analyze, and easily utilize relevant information in the passage. But honestly, you’ll get so good with question-stems and answer-choices that total passage comprehension becomes less important.
8. You will learn how to use your first thoughts to narrow down answer-choices. You will also learn how to swiftly switch gears after hitting roadblocks to confidently choose correct answers. “There are many ways to solve any one problem, and when one approach does not work, we must swiftly move on to another approach.”
9. You will discover your strengths and how to ply them with our strategy, developing the best strategy for you. Ours is not a one-size-fits-all approach to which you must adhere; it adapts to your strengths and strengthens your weaknesses.
10. You will become proficient with our core strategy which will yield repeatable success on questions in all sections, and you will maintain this momentum up until test day.
11. Mastering and applying our efficient strategy eliminates the overwhelming feelings and fatigue you may experience after reading passages and questions. Furthermore, it allows you to answer questions in less time and with greater accuracy.
12. “Every correct answer is simply a conclusion to what you just read or viewed,” so we will train you to not delve too deeply into the information in passages. Basically, we’ll train you to Don’t Think Too Much—that’s our motto!