ACT BOOT CAMP

January 30, 2010

nky act test prep

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Sorry for the length, but this is a summary of our Boot Camp. Call or email if you have any more questions!

Our program consists of 3 major components:
1.  Weekly Trainings
2.  Mandatory Practice Tests
3.  At Home Duties

WEEKLY TRAININGS

This is the bulk of our Boot Camp.  Our trainings are fairly lengthy, @ 3 hours per session, and in them we focus on two main elements:  Core Content, and Strategy.
Core Content:
We essentially “sharpen” the spear (or education) that our trainee has built over the course of their schooling.  We elicit knowledge as it applies to the ACT and refine it accordingly.

Strategy:
This is where students receive training that, for legal purposes, the schools are not permitted to distribute.  The ACT is a static inventory and therefore, practices can be developed to increase one’s performance.  We spend much of our time focused on time management, how the ACT is scored, how to make good guesses, and debunking common test fallacies.
Logistics
-TUESDAYS
-6-9 PM
-5 Trainings total

MANDATORY PRACTICE TESTS

Our participants engage in 2, full featured practice tests.  Our goals are two fold:
1.  Assess academic deficiencies and strengths, which will afford areas of focus henceforward
2.  Bread Familiarity:  By simulating the ACT Test, our trainees can put into practice what they learn in our Boot Camp.  This also helps reduce test anxiety, and lets the student focus on the task at hand.  Success in the ACT is built on practice!
Logistics
Location: SAME AS TRAINING
Saturdays
Test one:  1/30 8AM-12PM
Test two: 3/6 8AM-12PM
*calculator required!
**SHOW UP MIN 15 MINUTES EARLY

@ HOME DUTIES

Much of the material the ACT tests on is built throughout a students academic career.  5 weekly sessions simply is not enough to fully prepare a student (specifically in mathematics).  Our weekly trainings are followed up with assignments to be worked on throughout the week.  To be honest, students tend to resent “homework” but in order to  raise scores work in required.

Price: $300
Payment Form:  Credit Card/ Pay Pal:  visit www.theactbootcamp.com  under Sign Up on the home page, fill out your appropriate info

Checks, made out to The ACT Boot Camp *must receive one week before course begins
mail checks to 1134 Water Works Rd, Newport KY 41075

January Course
Tuesdays:
Starting January 26th – March 2nd
6-9 PM
Location:
Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors Conference Room
7660 Turfway Rd.
Florence, KY 41042
*building located directly behind Regal Cinemas

Saturdays:
January 30th & March 6
8AM- 12 PM

Students required to bring a copy of The Real ACT PREP GUIDE *NOT INCLUDED

On a personal Note:  We are a small local company with a deep passion for seeing high school kids positioned for success as they enter post-secondary education.  I believe in our program, but I must say that it isn’t a “get rich quick” deal.  The process is mentally strenuous but effective.

Hopefully that gives you better insight.  Feel free to call or email me if you’d like to talk more.

Mark
Managing Partner
The ACT Boot Camp
859.409.0257

January 28, 2010

The ACT Boot Camp

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We are super excited about starting the next ACT Boot Camp!  This email will give a quick rundown of everything you need to know as we begin.  Please email or call if you have any questions or concerns.

Essential Info:
Date/Time: We begin Tuesday, January 26 from 6-9 PM . . . try to get there by 5:50!
Location: Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors (NKAR), 7660 Turfway Road,  Florence, KY 41042 . . . really great site with SmartBoard technology
What to Bring: The Real ACT Prep Guide, Paper, Graphing Calculator, Pens/Pencils, and anything else to help you pay attention and take notes

Mandatory Class Sessions:
5 Tuesday sessions: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, (skip 2/16), 2/23, 3/2 . . . each session will be from 6-9 PM
2 Saturday practice tests: 1/30 and 3/6 from 8 AM-11:45 AM at NKAR . . . try to get there by 7:45!

Mark Treas
The ACT Boot Camp

January 26, 2010

boone county schools act prep

Northern Kentucky act test prep is all about location.  NKY is big but deciptively accessible.  With major freeways connecting all counties, and major roads connecting city to city, getting from one end to the other can usually happen in under 30 minutes, and often under 20.  I live in Fort Thomas Kentucky, right next to Highlands High School act prep location; and I can usually get to Boone County High School in less than 20.

One paradigm that would help make this area more awesome is if people stopped locking themselves in because of their geography.  County lines are built arbitrary but those make believe boundaries frustrates expansion.  I say no more.  No more neglecting experiencing something that is happening in Campbell county because I’m over at Ryle High School.  IF there is a training that can help my education; if there is a speaker who may shed light on new and important elements, I want to know, and I want to experience it first hand.

January 21, 2010

NKY ACT Test Strategy: The broken record

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I recently visited a friend who has a plethora of vintage electronics.  He was showing me some of his favorite pieces, and then we came to his record player.  It was absolutely beautiful.  We sat and listened, and then he put it on, and old Doors album, and it began skipping!  The same line, over and over, so that I could not get the line out of my head.

ACT Prep is all about repetition.  ACT Practice tests work and they work well.  You have to be willing to fight for the results you need, fight to win.  Over and over, same test, same questions, same ideas, the act test is a predictable inventory.  Our job, as trainers, is simply to:

1.  Sharpen content knowledge

2.  Mature testing skills

3.  Elicit their passion

I’ve said this a million times, if a student doesn’t care, they won’t succeed. Ask anyone who teaches at a Boone County School  The practice takes time, and that is the core of nky act test strategy

January 18, 2010

act prep: northern kentucky

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Having lived in northern kentucky for my entire life, I feel like I know the area through and through.  More importantly the geography is the culture.

Our area is the spearhead of the Commonwealth, leading the way in all fronts of academics, technology, culture, and all awesome things.  Between Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County, plus all the individual schools in between; our area is quickly maturing.

AS I’ve said a thousand times, the Kentucky Junior ACT Test is on route, coming up early this March, and people have to get prepared: stat!

January 13, 2010

act prep posters

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I just created our new posters and flyers for our ACT Boot Camp; and I’m pretty pumped.  It’s been tricky, creating marketing materials that people will bother to look at without coming across as another HUGE generic program that doesn’t care about their students.

The reality is, we do care about students and we care about the schools.  When we started getting reports back from our students; how they enjoyed our  course (given that its a ton of work based on a not awesome subject), and even better, they successfully new how to increase act scores, we knew our act prep course was able to greatly serve boone county schools, kenton county schools, and all the other northern kentucky schools.

January 12, 2010

ACT PREP: A PLAN FOR KENTUCKY JUNIORS

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If I was a junior in high school, this would be my strategy to excel on the act test.

First, I would take the ACT BOOT CAMP course that kicks off on January 26th.  In that course, participants take 2 full act tests, have more than enough take home work all bent towards act test strategy, and hours of training in act core content and test strategy.  That course leads up the the Kentucky ACT test in March, where all high school juniors are required to participate.

The ACT practice tests taken in the boot should afford me both and indicator of my current status, as well as areas of concentration.  I’d then take the March tests which will give a real foundation for where I am.  Because practice is so powerful in cracking the ACT, I’d sign up for the June 12th test.

Over the summer, as much as it sucks, I would allot several hours a week to focus on my struggle areas and half the time to continue sharpening my strengths.  I’d then sign up for the first test available in the next school year and again for the October test; all this to prepare for the December test, the most important for seniors.

At this point, I’d have taken 2 practice tests, and 5 legit tests for a total of 7 times in just over a year.  But before the December test, I would email me (Mark) and request to sit in on at least two  training sessions (students who sign up for our boot camp have full access to our future trainings).

I consider this the lower standard for a junior to succeed on the act test, and begin utilizing act prep.

ACT PREP: A PLAN FOR JUNIORS

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If I was a junior in high school, this would be my strategy to excel on the act test.

First, I would take the ACT BOOT CAMP course that kicks off on January 26th.  In that course, participants take 2 full act tests, have more than enough take home work all bent towards act test strategy, and hours of training in act core content and test strategy.  That course leads up the the Kentucky ACT test in March, where all high school juniors are required to participate.

The ACT practice tests taken in the boot should afford me both and indicator of my current status, as well as areas of concentration.  I’d then take the March tests which will give a real foundation for where I am.  Because practice is so powerful in cracking the ACT, I’d sign up for the June 12th test.

Over the summer, as much as it sucks, I would allot several hours a week to focus on my struggle areas and half the time to continue sharpening my strengths.  I’d then sign up for the first test available in the next school year and again for the October test; all this to prepare for the December test, the most important for seniors.

At this point, I’d have taken 2 practice tests, and 5 legit tests for a total of 7 times in just over a year.  But before the December test, I would email me (Mark) and request to sit in on at least two  training sessions (students who sign up for our boot camp have full access to our future trainings).

I consider this the lower standard for a junior to succeed on the act test, and begin utilizing act prep.

January 8, 2010

how to prepare for the march act test

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This March, all the juniors in the state of KY will be taking the ACT Test. The reason for this is two fold:
First, it is helping prepare Kentucky students for their collegiate pursuit, highlighting for both students parents and schools ares of strengths and deficits.
Similarly, KY is using the ACT Test is a metric to assess both schools and districts performance. To most people this may not seem like a big deal, but it actually has massive implications on the Commonwealth’s educational system.
On a micro-level, standardized tests are large cumbersome inventories that poorly predict and assess its taker. But on the micro, they are cheap, fast, and really the best option.
So because the kentucky jr act test scores will effect kids so much, people can make preparations for the test. Test Prep is a very common practice, specifically affluent areas of cultures that hold education in high esteem.

A trainee must make a wise decision in who they receive training from. The time commitment is large, the work load is intense, so choosing wrongly is not only fiscally expensive, it can lead to academic ruin.
Find people with results, who are personal and who have passion. I think the ACT BOOT CAMP does the job.

January 7, 2010

act prep: a question of values

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The life of a high school student makes the narrative of a New York banker look like a walk in the park.  Between a full day of work @ school, hours upon hours of home work, sports, clubs, personal events, personal time- unbelievable.

I played sports in high school.  Football was my game and it was teh driving force in my  life; and that is fine and dandy, until the temporal impedes on the bigger picture.

Sports are awesome.  Education, for many does not carry the same “wow” factor, but a life of possibilities and position is not only awesome, its vital. The Kentucky March ACT TEST for Juniors is going to reveal to the state where the jr class stands.  Enjoy the temporal people, but remember that what you do today (or don’t do) will effect tomorrow.  Prepare today for the act test.

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