SAT testing "Face your fears"

 In all the years I have been working with athletes in the recruiting process, I have been amazed at how many athletes fail to prepare for the SAT test.  To me it would be like playing the season then not practicing the week of playoffs… no film sessions, no timing drills, no new plays, no Game Plan …… no victory!  In the recruiting process, the SAT test is equivalent to the playoffs. The better you score, the better chance you have of getting a scholarship. Score too low and become a non qualifier.

Don’t tell yourself, “I’m just not a good standardized test taker, I never have been.” There is a strategy to taking the SAT and you can prepare for it just like you would prepare for an opponent. You spend all summer preparing for the season take some time to do the extra work to prepare for the test. If you play a fall sport you should start taking the SAT/ACT in the spring of your junior year.  Don’t put off taking the test. A new NCAA rule that went into effect last year is that you must have an SAT/ACT test score before you can take an official campus visit.

Each year at the Central Florida All Star Football Game I see about 25% of the players in the game have yet to take either test and miss out on opportunities to go on official visits and receive a scholarship.  By taking the test early you have the opportunity to retake the test if you didn’t do well or retake it if you scored high in an effort to get a higher score. The amount of scholarship money given to athletes that score over 1200 SAT (math-verbal only) as to those that score 1100 is significant. Would you settle for a 4.55 forty time if you had the opportunity to run it again and you felt you could run it faster? Don’t fear the test, because fear is not an option.

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