College Entrance Exam Test Prep

College Prep Coach Steve Leake

How to improve your SAT and ACT score

Most students approach the SAT and ACT incorrectly - they assume the tests are harder than they really are! That is perfectly understandable. In fact, a lot of people think these "college entrance" tests are about college level material, or at least high school level. But they’re not! The real key for students to improve their SAT and ACT scores is to understand how basic the tests really are - only disguised to look harder. This is the great, open secret to these tests, and it is the core of the College Prep Coach program. College Prep Coach helps students decode the SAT or ACT into basic skills learned in elementary school. What students don't realize is that 90% of the test is simply reading, writing, and arithmetic- the 3 R's. This program coaches students through the process of seeing there are only easy questions that look easy and easy questions that look hard.

The College Prep Coach program is unique because it is supremely simple, effective, and efficient.  Through Live Online Instruction Students will discover:

  • The SAT and ACT are elementary school tests, not high school tests!
  • The SAT and ACT test the basics, nothing fancy!
  • The SAT and ACT test reading, writing and arithmetic, and, except for a few geometry questions, almost nothing else!
  • The SAT and ACT look like regular tests in school, but they're very different. Not harder - just different.
  • There are only easy questions that look easy, and easy questions that look hard: but there are no hard questions!
  • The SAT and ACT are great at disguising the basics to look hard!
  • You already know everything they need to know to score perfectly or close to it on these tests!
  • You simply don't know how to use what you already know!
  • We provide "just the facts": just those things you need to know to raise scores:  nothing more, nothing less!
  • The keys to raising scores are the same for everyone: higher scoring students just apply them more accurately and faster.
 
With these keys, students gain confidence in their test-taking abilities and get the scores they deserve. All it takes is one 2-hour online class per week for 4 weeks (plus a couple of hours of home work per week)!
 
  • 4 week live online classes enrolling now!
  • Substantial improvements!
  • Better value than national test prep companies!
  • Live online interactive sessions recorded for playback and review!
  • Participate in live class without leaving home!
  • Classes fill up and space is limited!
 
 
 

Steve Leake, JD

Combining almost 30 years' experience in high school education and standardized test preparation, Steve Leake offers students a unique, live online, opportunity to maximize their educational opportunities. Steve Leake is a graduate of Amherst College (’82) and the American University School of Law (’86). He has taught at several prep schools, including Phillips Academy, Andover, and Pace Academy, Atlanta. In 1984 Steve joined the Princeton Review as the first instructor in its Washington, D.C. office. In 1991 he founded the Princeton Review of Tennessee. As an independent test trainer since 1999, Steve developed the College Prep Coach program drawing on his years of experience in test guidance. Steve is a founding partner of Edsortium.

Speciality: 

ACT Prep Course

The course is strategic and technique-based in nature, based on the idea that students know everything they need to know to score perfectly on the ACT (and the SAT) by the end of 8th grade--they just don't know how to use it.  That is, they unde

SAT Prep Course

This course focuses on how the SAT takes simple, straightforward material and question types and "tweaks" them to confuse and confound students.  Steve shows students the traps the SAT sets for them and how to avoid them.  Steve's strategy gives students the key to better scores: how to maximize what they already know in the peculiar format that is the SAT. 

Frequently asked Questions about the SAT & ACT

WHAT IS THE ACT TEST? WHAT IS THE SAT TEST? Steve shares his knowledge about college entrance exams. If you have a question that is not answered here, or you would to learn more about techniques and strategies that can improve your exam score, contact Steve by email or through his forum on this website.