Relax, It's Time To Take The GMAT

NEW YORK - April 18, 2014 - PRLog -- How impactful is mindfulness? Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, and LeBron James all relied on meditation and yoga, and have a combined 18 championships among them. The Seattle Seahawks, who crushed the Denver Broncos 43-8 in the Super Bowl, use a sports psychologist to enhance game day performance. To be in winning form, it is essential to be mindful first, so that one can master the game. And if the game is achieving a top score on admission tests, then Test Prep New York (TPNY) is available to assist test-takers crush their own personal Super Bowls - the GMAT, SAT, LSAT, GRE, MCAT, ACT, and USMLE, etc. TPNY is the only test prep company to utilize mindfulness techniques, sports psychology, and holistic modalities to optimize test taking potential for every student who peaked and plateaued with traditional study methods.

Bara Sapir, a former Princeton Review instructor and a 20+ year veteran of the test prep industry founded Test Prep New York nine years ago. She earned a Masters degree in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, an MA in Art History and a BFA from the University of Michigan. She is certified in NLP, Integrated Life Coaching, Reiki and Hypnotism. At TPNY, they first identify each test-taker’s comfort zone and patterns of error. They then customize a program for each student and then address their issues with anxiety, stress, or concentration. Relaxation and visualization tools are used to tap the subconscious mind, which can help clients reach scores they were unable to attain after training with big name test prep companies.
“At Test Prep New York, we’ve seen clients whose scores improved 30 percent when they addressed their anxiety issues,” says author Ms. Sapir. “The hard science research indicates a student’s score can be compromised anywhere from 12 to 35 percent as a result of test anxiety. This means the difference between a disappointing score and a solid, high score and between rejection and acceptance.”

Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) described mindfulness as “Being in the zone. You can train your mind to be in the present moment through these practices.This is really powerful stuff to help school kids who we yell at to pay attention, but we never teach them how to pay attention.” TPNY shows test-takers how to pay attention and enter “the zone” in order to achieve their highest scores in the 23 (and counting) educational and admissions tests.

This Spring, http://testprepny.com releases the new book Full Potential GMAT Sentence Correction Intensive (Nova Press), featuring the most detailed review of Sentence Correction questions, necessary for students aiming to score 700+. The book  focuses on what students will see on the GMAT, based on extensive research of real GMAT questions. There are more than 200 examples illustrating key grammar rules and hundreds of practice questions to build mastery of concepts, as well as over 30 exercises drawn from sports psychology, mindfulness, and holistic health to optimize test day performance (visit http://testprepny.com/gmat-sentence-correction-book/). Also found at TPNY’s shop are The MindFlow class, which teaches Advanced Reading Skills, enabling test-takers to read up to 4X faster without compromising comprehension; and the Full Potential Audio Program which optimizes test-taking potential by enhancing retention, concentration, and confidence for the test.  The company recently opened an office in San Francisco (TPSF), so the Mindflow classes are now taught in NYC Tri State area, the Bay Area and soon, online.

TPNY/TPSF is a boutique test prep and academic tutoring company. They are the only company to fuse traditional academic and test preparation training and strategy with positive mindset techniques. They are to students what sports psychologists and trainers are to athletes.