GMAT Strategy

Gointobeready and Angie,

Here are the solutions that are completely doable for one if not both of you:

1. Come to NYC for our MindFlow class THIS Sunday. This is the ONLY class available that deals with positive mindset, speed reading and test-taking strategy. Get on the Accella, be there by 10 am on sunday, and we'll get some of that positive action going so you can feel motivated and confident to do your best.

If you have friends in the DC/Baltimore area - - or can amass them, we'll come to you. Contact me off line about specifics.

In any event check it out here: www.mindflowclass.com

2. Work with a TPNY tutor. We have tutors in the DC area or you can work remotely with a TPNY GMAT expert.

3. If your issue is primarily anxiety, you can work directly with a TPNY Full Potential Coach contact our office for details. 646-290-7440

4. Use the TPNY Full Potential GMAT audio product which is a 5.5hour audio program that helps with increasing confidence through relaxation, improved retention, recall and focus. Some info:

The Full Potential program optimizes your test-taking potential by enhancing your mental retention, concentration and relaxation. This 5+ hour program -- Yoga for your Mind-- is a research-supported toolkit filled with methods designed to ignite your mental, psychological and intuitive strengths so you can perform your best. The experiential exercises, learning techniques and original sound score to enhance studying, are engaging and effective. The program can be used to complement any academic test preparation program and provides a significant edge to any test taker.

And the link: https://testprepny.com/pages/products_gmat.htm

Listen to the sampler to get an idea of what it's like. In fact, the sampler might even be ENOUGH to get you into the best headspace! IT's THAT good!

Side note:
Future GMAT test takers will have more resources available to them, in addition to the audio as we've got a new product we'll be launching which will be a full-on, no holds barred opportunity to prepare yourself fully for your upcoming standardized test - psychologically. More on that at a later date.


I want to make note of a couple of things in your note specifically, Angie. If you know the material, most tutors I've come into contact with don't adequately deal with anxiety. Or deal with it at all. They may tell you to 'study more' or 'do breathing exercises' but they aren't TRAINED in dealing with test anxiety. Nor do they have a lot of experience with it. They know their students have 'issues' but don't know what to do, so they think they can pile on the extra hours and that the student will believe since they're putting in more time, that maybe this will translate to a nirvana-ic experience taking the test. This isn't true.

Nor do you need to see a psychotherapist who will take you back to cause and tell you you need to see them the next 6 months to 10 years to deal with this. You don't.

In my experience, in most cases, unless a student actively engages in behavior modification activity, which is VERY SHORT TERM, they will continue to manifest the same, if not worse, reactions to taking the GMAT (or any other high stakes test). There are MANY things you could do but everyone is an individual, and different methods have different results and success with each person. Obviously, I don't know you well enough to start listing every single one of them here. It seems it hasn't been enough for you to 'tell yourself' that you can do it and to 'imagine' your dream job - - because maybe you don't believe it yourself. Or maybe there is some overriding issue you've not dealt with. Or maybe.. (and so on.)

You are right in that these are really great techniques and administered when you're in the right state, might do a hell of a lot of good - -but the four (among others) key issues here are that you need to:

1) believe that you can do it, want to do it, and will do it,
2) clear the palette and fire the inner critic,
3) surpass or circumvent your critical faculty so as to implant in your unconscious mind that this is your belief and truth, and
4) engage in fortifying these new belief structures.

In other words: you need to effectively 'thread' the needle. Plant the seed. Start the racehorse. Otherwise, all your efforts might merely be feeble attempts, muddling your attempts rather than catapaulting you into your greatness.

The good news is that all these above mentioned don't require medicine or long term therapy, just an effective way to help YOU personally achieve your personal best. Whether it's hypnosis, EFT, guided visualization, sound therapy, meditation, EMDR, NLP, or so on...etc. - - these are all fancy (yet effective) terms for proven techniques we use to get students into the ZONE. They've got the science to back them. And a track record in our own office. We use them - -and others - - successfully to get people to reach their goals.

Happy to provide more insight. I could go on and on...but really: if you want a streamlined response: just call.

Best,