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Critical Thinking Skills: a Necessity for the College Bound Student

Critical thinking skills are essential life skills; colleges seek out students with critical thinking skills because they know how to learn. Critical thinking is a form of metacognition: thinking about thinking. Critical thinking means moving from thinking concretely about a topic, such as family, to thinking more abstractly about the idea of the family, which ...
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Test Anxiety

One of the most frequent calls I get is about test anxiety. The parent informs me that the student gets good grades in his/her classes, but doesn’t “test well”. Feeling anxious about tests is a form of performance anxiety and can take the form of a nervous stomach, a headache, or even throwing up. Many, ...
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