Academic Approach®

Whether you are reading a case brief, calculating internal rates of return, filtering through pages of an organic chemistry textbook, or poring over Proust, you will need to reason efficiently and critically as a graduate student. A successful graduate student must be able to notice prevailing patterns, identify salient details, establish causal connections, and avoid logical fallacies. We use the critical reading and reasoning components of the graduate exams as springboards towards building this type of critical acumen.

LSAT

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) may be the most difficult standardized admission test offered today. Unlike other standardized tests such as the GMAT, GRE, and MCAT, the LSAT requires no advanced knowledge of a particular academic subject such as mathematics or chemistry. Instead, the LSAT focuses entirely on advanced logical reasoning skills and reading comprehension, and distinguishes higher from lower scores by being deceptively difficult in its fine logical distinctions and extremely demanding in terms of time pressure.

The two cornerstones of our approach are as follows:

1. deploying a very explicit, well-defined, and individually tailored approach to each type of question the test presents and
2. applying exceptionally close attention to each student's patterns of and approaches to logical thinking and making progressive changes in those approaches to enhance their accuracy and efficiency.

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GMAT

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is composed of only three distinct "sections," but includes SIX distinct subjects for study purposes: the "Analytical Writing Assessment" (essays) section; a "Quantitative" section, which includes the two separate question "types," Problem Solving (math) and Data Sufficiency (unique to this test); and a "Verbal" section, which includes the three separate question "types" referred to as Reading Comprehension (reading), Critical Reasoning (logic), and Sentence Correction (grammar). Each question type requires its own set of carefully tailored approaches and techniques. For this reason, the GMAT is the broadest of the standardized entrance exams in terms of range of topics that must be covered in a successful program.

In addition to helping students master the academic content on the exam, our program trains stamina and speed of execution and provides individualized focus on adjustments to each student's approach to math or writing or logical thinking.

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GRE

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a graduate level entrance exam that lasts between 3 and 3 1/4 hours, not including an unscored, research section. The GRE offers 2 major test types: the General Test and the Subject Tests. Subject tests assess a student's proficiency in specific academic areas that are pertinent to particular programs of study, while the General Test is a general admissions exam that more broadly assesses logic and reasoning skill, mathematical knowledge and reasoning, and analytical writing ability.

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How to get started

We always begin with a phone consultation and an assessment of the student's capabilities. Get started now by contacting your nearest office.

step 1	Introductory phone consultation Cost: Complimentary The first step in arranging a program is to provide us with some pertinent information. Parents or guardians should contact your nearest office for a brief phone consultation to discuss the student's profile, needs and schedule.
step 2	Diagnostic test Cost: $50.00 Next, we administer the diagnostic test for the student in the relevant standardized test. A diagnostic provides an objective measure of the student's independent level of performance, which is necessary for assessing ability and mapping improvement.
step 3	Meeting with program administrator Cost: Complimentary After the diagnostic test, a student's parents or guardians meet for a complimentary consultation with the program administrator. The purpose of the meeting is to answer all questions, discuss the results of the diagnostic frankly, set goals for the student's improvement, and design a test preparation program specifically around the student's needs and interests. Finally, students are matched with the appropriate instructors and together they determine a meeting schedule. Students commit to a schedule of regular appointments, relevant homework assignments, and frequent practice test administrations to ensure the assimilation of relevant academic content and improve effective processing of this content under time constraint. To get started or learn more about our programs, contact one of our offices here.