Zen in the art of the SAT
Subtitle: how to think, focus, and achieve your highest score
By: Matt Bardin and Susan Fine
Contributors: Fine, Susan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780618574889
Subjects: SAT (Educational test); Study guides
Description: Introduces a method for test taking, showing readers how to learn to let go of worries and fears, calm the mind, and bring one's attention to the present moment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-204).
Table of contents: title: The Nature of the Test; title: In a Foreign Land; title: Walk Through the Open Door; title: The New SAT at a Glance; title: Thinking; title: The Key to Better Thinking: Skip and Come Back; title: When to Skip and When to Come Back; title: Beginner's Mind: How to Come Back; title: Reasons Not to Skip and Come Back (and Why They're Wrong); title: An Example: Erica Works the Test; title: From "I Can't" to "I Can"; title: Anxiety; title: The Buddha and the SAT; title: Anxiety and the Present Moment; title: Breathing; title: Basic Meditation: Managing Anxiety; title: Assessing Your Anxiety; title: Anxiety Examples; title: Reading Challenges; title: Reading Habits That Get in the Way and How to Correct Them; title: Reading Assessment; title: How to Raise Your Reading Level; title: Critical Reading Strategies; title: Some Things You Must Know; title: The Big Ten: Grammar and Usage; title: Math Strategies; title: Math Basics; title: Math Quiz; title: The Basics of Timed Writing; title: Parents; title: Taking Your Parents Down Memory Lane; title: Seven Damaging Remarks Well-Meaning Parents Make; title: The Five Characteristics of Supportive Parents; title: Your Plan; title: Organization: How's Your Brain's CEO?; title: Just Twenty-five Minutes; title: You Can Run a Marathon: Creating an SAT Study Plan; title: Getting-Started Checklist; title: Life Lessons; title: A Crisis Is a Critical Opportunity; title: Feelings Are First, but the Mind Leads; title: Beginner's Mind (Reprise); title: The Myth of Genius (and Stupidity); title: Vocabulary.