JIM TREADWAY TUTOR

When you look at the chart below, which of the two people, Paul or Joseph, do you think is going to have a more successful, connected, and enriching life?

The most important thing we teach in the SATs isn’t how to raise your score.  

It’s how to become aware of and...

Last night's Super Bowl blew me away.  Lady Gaga alone was fantastic, but having edited down my thoughts on how much I liked her performance (let me just say I loved her guttural yell to the crowd before her last song:  ‘Come on! Let’s go!  This is the Super Bowl!  Thi...

​​I spent four days last week at Jen Zoe's Zenergen Stables in Orlando, a world of green, fresh-air, horses, and constant chatter about personality types, love, life, and childhood.  

Jen has read every personal growth book you've ever heard about, and she has al...

1.  Michael Cerro's "For Love of ACT Science" Workbook
2.  Breathing Techniques
3.  A New Strategy for Reading Passages

My students’ ACT Scores have risen 8.2 points on average so far this year – equivalent to about 300 points on the 1600-scale SAT.

Last year (t...

Josh Waitzkin has been blowing my mind lately.

A former child chess prodigy, Waitzkin was the real-life inspiration for the movie Searching for Bobby Fisher. 

Today he is a grown man, and lately I have been reading his fantastic book The Art of Learning:  An Inner Jour...

I have heard of several strategies to approach a Reading Passage:

1. Just read it and answer the questions!

2. Read the questions first, gaining a sense of what they will ask about.  Then read the Passage, and then do the questions.

3. Read the whole Introduction,...