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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a junior at a public school.  His grades are around 4.0 and he takes a lot of challenging courses including 5 AP this year.  He is very bright, but has never been good at standardized testing all the way back to 3rd grade.  He just stresses out for[b] practically any test. [/b] He wants to Apply to several schools that will be out of reach if his test scores are not very good.  How would you approach the testing?  Are there any prep program you would recommend for a student like this? He is willing to take the classes.  He is a very solid student, but not a phenom like some.  Thoughts?[/quote]

how is he going to handle college? [/quote]

NP here. I think it's a fair question.[/quote]

Many classes have students graded on research papers  and presentation.

When people say their child is not good at testing, they mean they get nervous, have anxiety, read questions incorrectly (like prove X instead of prove X is incorrect) and make silly mistakes so they will get an A-, B+, B when they actually knew all the material. It does not mean they get Fs.

Also, my son can't track across a page so he fills out the little bubble incorrectly and sometimes b and d look the same so he can circle answers.

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