NYS & NYC standardized test prep

class description

Given their ages, our students will not only be focused on their activities at STEAMpunks. These years are filled with challenging high school entrance exams, state-mandated exams, and classroom exams. The costs of tutors and test prep classes can add up, and usually require research and travel planning.

We offer stellar, competitive, results-driven SHSAT, Regents and advanced placement (AP) test practice and preparation, and tutoring in the maths and sciences, so that all of your child's supplemental educational support is provided under one roof, with classmates and teachers your kids already know and trust. Our students learn as a team, study as a team, test as a team, and succeed as a team.

how our test prep courses are run

We teach test prep using our very own methods, developed as we've prepared kids for actual NYS and NYC exams. A few points about our approach to test prep that makes our program unique:

  • we do not pressure our kids; we structure the learning to be relaxed, enjoyable and encouraging
  • we administer practice tests early, in order to quickly identify where each individual student needs more or less support, and then...
  • we customize teaching to each student's individual strengths and needs in specific math and ela topics
  • we further individualize testing-taking strategies, guiding each student to overcome time managment, stress managment, section prioritization, IEP adjustments, and more

We do not simply 'teach to the test,' but for the sake of learning. This warrants an example. The SHSAT ELA portion contains a poetry comprehension section. Interestingly, the questions in this section very specifically do not test for either interpretive comprehension of content, nor of poetry structure, but counterintuitively focus on logic arguments.

In this section, we take the time to discuss peotry's unique methods of conveying thoughts and emotions, before then teach our in-house technique for beating the SHSAT at its own obfuscation game, reducing one of the most challenging ELA sections into a trivial activity.