DD is taking her SSATs right now. I’m in an airport on a layover wishing I could be there. We took a very different strategy and said NO studying for 24 hours before and my husband took the girls out for a really fun night last night so she wouldn’t stress and she would be tuckered out enough to fall asleep without thinking about the exam at all. We shall see how that plays out! I texted her from my first flight when she woke up this morning and reminded her that we decided to make this a practice test. Sometimes I wonder if we get in our own way with our nervous energy so I’m hoping our super low-stress approach is helpful not harmful.
(Side note: at the November test, we were standing around waiting for the kids to be called back to the testing room and there was this one mom who was hurriedly explaining things to her daughter with a graphing calculator in hand and they were both so stressed. Yikes! (Although who’s laughing now since she probably got a 95 and we are freaking out having to deal with a 68, so jokes on us I suppose…)