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should also gain a huge advantage in all other subjects, and be able to do much more with extracurricular activities. The second thing: the student should have learned to work independently of his school. Many kids are cripplingly psychologically dependent on schools. They literally cannot learn anything outside of school. Even when they do, they keep forgetting. While many elite tutoring services, including ours, have specific tools to change that, even for us it isn’t easy. Any student who can learn outside of school has a massive advantage over a student who cannot. The single most important academic skill your child should learn by age 12 is how to learn outside of school, without a teacher forcing him to learn.
STANDARDIZED TESTS How do standardized tests fit into an overall strategy? Remember, the goal is to convince your teachers, administrators, friends, neighbors, local cashiers, and everyone else that you are a rare and magical diamond. You must convince them that you are innately special. Standardized reasoning tests, such as the ERB,
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