STAGE 1: STRATEGIC FOUNDATIONS

The major admissions tests have sections called reading, math, etc. Such titles produce the common misconception that admissions tests are just like tests you're given at school. In fact, beyond the subject names, standardized and school tests have almost nothing in common.

Tests in school test your learning: you score by demonstrating knowledge of new material. Admissions tests, on the other hand, ask you to apply knowledge that you've practiced for years. You're not going to raise your score effectively by cramming facts and figures the night before the test. Ultimately, admissions tests are tests of logic.

ATP Stage 1 builds, session by session, a thorough understanding of the core logical strategies necessary to score your best: how to reduce complex algebra to simple arithmetic, how to memorize and hunt down passage details in moments, and even how to outwit your own subconscious.

You don't need a coach at the ATP level to teach you algebra and grammar you already know: there are a thousand fantastic and free resources for content (which we're happy to recommend, get in touch!), not to mention dozens of companies ready to waste your time and investment on such. ATP will teach you to you see past the test's superficial trappings to the universal constants upon which each standardized test is built.

Complete Stage 1, and you'll have gained an arsenal of new techniques to bring to test day, along with direction on the shortest path to their mastery.

STAGE 2: CONFIDENCE IN EXECUTION

With your Stage 1 strategies in hand, your next task is to cement your theoretical knowledge into practical mastery. It's one thing to answer questions correctly in the comforts of home and quite another to be able to do so confidently under the pressures of test day.

During each session of Stage 2 you and your coach will work through the problems you've missed from the training sets and, more importantly, identify and explain the common threads connecting those problems so you can focus your practice on those techniques that will most directly improve your scores on test day.

The next several training assignments will combine untimed strategy drills and content review problem sets--to master the fundamentals and make sure the underpinning knowledge is present--with timed fractional diagnostics to measure how effectively you're able to apply your newfound skills under test-like conditions.

Complete Stage 2 confident in your testcraft and ready to execute on test day.

STAGE 3: APPROACHING TEST MASTERY

In Stage 3, test craftsman rises to test artisan. You'll no longer merely dodge the testmakers traps and pitfalls, you'll learn to spot telltales in the midst of a passage, before even beginning to tackle the questions.

Stage 3 graduates are masters of their destiny and ready to demonstrate their testing potential to colleges.

STAGE 4: CONJURING AND OTHER TEST MAGICK

Very occasionally, students pursuing the most competitive colleges and aiming for 99+ percentile scores will continue training beyond Stage 3. Every Stage 4 sequence is customized entirely to the individual student to burnish the final blemishes from their test strategy. Master stage four, and we may be offering you an internship in a year or two!