Expert Reveals How to Remove Stress from the SAT Equation

New York, NY - Written by tutoring center owners and sisters, Michele LoBosco and Jacqueline J. LoBosco, Ph.D., How to Ace the SAT Without Losing Your Cool (Paperback, $19.95, ISBN: 978-0-6151-4592-1) is a SAT preparation book that provides students with a new perspective, as well as a multitude of de-stressing techniques, strategies and skills that help them achieve their true potential.

Anxiety is a widespread issue amongst high school students and research conducted on test anxiety reveals some disturbing facts. Studies indicate that 61% of high school students experience test anxiety, and research demonstrates that stress can bring about or contribute to a multitude of health and learning impairments including memory problems, executive functioning problems, confusion, concentration issues, depression, overwhelm, lack of confidence, teeth grinding, jaw clenching, and eating disorders.

"The two most common stressors identified for students are school and exams, and the SAT is one of the biggest academic challenges most high school students will ever have to face," says Michele. LoBosco. "It's important that we help students find a way to excel without compromising their well-being. This SAT preparation book teaches students how to succeed, but without the stress and anxiety that usually come hand in hand with SAT preparation."

Covered in the book:
• Thorough exploration of critical reading, math, and writing concepts (making comprehension of all three sections a breeze!)
• Effective math and verbal strategies that help students decrease stress, increase confidence, and boost their SAT scores (astonishingly simple techniques that work!)
• Sample problems with fully explained answers (making the problems easy to understand and the strategies easy to replicate)
• Hundreds of practice problems
• Self-knowledge assessments and exercises that will make the SAT preparation process easier and more effective (self knowledge is often the missing piece to SAT success!)

Interview Topics:

• The pervasiveness of stress and how it impacts children and adolescents
• Techniques to decrease stress, and increase efficacy, motivation, and performance
• How parents can support their children to realize their academic and personal potential
• How to make the SAT preparation process an effective and empowering one
• Why the current SAT preparation model doesn't work

How to Ace the SAT Without Losing Your Cool (Paperback, $19.95, ISBN: 978-0-6151-4592-1) offers an alternate and empowering route for SAT students to take.

About Academics Plus
Founded by sisters, Michele LoBosco and Jacqueline LoBosco, Ph.D., Academics Plus Tutoring Center is a premier tutoring company specializing in academic enrichment and personal development programs for students of all ages. Their unique approach employs a multitude of self awareness, focusing, vision board and goal-setting exercises designed increase motivation and confidence, while decreasing the stress so many students experience.

Michele and Jacqui are authors of the books How to Ace the SAT Without Losing Your Cool and The SAT Success System Personal Workbook . Available for interviews via telephone. Media kits, photos, review copies & interviews available on request. For additional information or requests just hit reply and email your specific requests, or contact Michele LoBosco @ 212.534.0436 or www.academics-plus.com.