Aim High, Score Higher: Planning for a Standardized Exam

To mentally prepare yourself for success on a standardized exam, you’ll first want to have an end-goal in mind. Answering for yourself, “Am I ready to take the real thing?” largely comes down to knowing whether your practice scores are competitive, and feeling like you’ll do about as well as you ever will.

You can best accomplish this by setting an appropriate Goal Score for Test Day. However, this is not as simple as picking a high number and hoping for the best. This number should be customized to you. I assist my students with this process by breaking it into these 5 Questions.