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And you really don't need to go
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I'm doing a study with Benjamin Franklin
right now, and you know,

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one of the one of the greatest
contributors intellectually to our civilization. He didn't

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go to college, but there's a
process that he developed on how to learn

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things. And I'm developing a program
right now called Benjamin Franklin Forum where you

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don't need to go to college to
get this great education. It's all sitting

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Lets. It's mid August, literally
the midpoint of which means summer will soon

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be behind us. But this is
a great time if you've got kids going

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to college, if you're worrying about
how to pay for them, if you

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have relatives thinking of college. All
of these things you really need to hear

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from my next guest, doctor Cooney
Beasley. Doctor Beasley, you've been helping

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people for over forty years to reach
their college goals. I assume things have

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changed quite a bit in the past
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I went to law school and I
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fifteen thousand dollars, not including accommodations, room and board, and I literally

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made back my tuition. I doubled
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and the rest of his history.
As they say, So, things are

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a little bit different now, aren't
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Well, forty years ago, the
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family could buy their house, buy
their two cars, and put their three

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kids to college on their salary without
without loans. Yeah. Now your average

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drugs are can't even do that,
you know. Yeah, well, man,

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they talk to me, they can
do that. Okay, That's what

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we know. That's what we focus
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on how to take the pinch out
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So, I see, like since
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your team have helped students get over
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for all of the best schools.
Hey, but not everybody is supposed to

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go to Harvard or Yale, are
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of good schools out there. You
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place a little too much vanity on
schools and are willing to pay the vanity

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premium for a school, and a
lot of the vanity schools, your ROI

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will never reach zero. You're going
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rest of your life most of the
time, right, especially if you don't

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bother to graduate. That's right,
That's right. That's a sixty percent of

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students don't make it, and so
all they have is some college credit and

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a lot of college debt. You
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the day when I went to school, but we had these things we call

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them perennial students, and they just
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for the institution, but they never
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I think people realize that's not really
a great course. But hey, if

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you've if you've entered college and you
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a year and a half, you
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you drop out, you're still responsible
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only have to pay back if you
graduate here. Yeah, that's right.

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I mean again, most of the
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most, A significant portion of college
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finish college. So another interesting thing
is even people who do graduate from colleges,

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if you go to the wrong college
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statistics are online. I don't gave
me the database, but well, right,

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no, I'm gonna I'm gonna crash
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when you look at the average earnings, there's database average earnings of graduates from

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every college in the country, and
then percentage that have defaulted on their student

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loan debt, and you know,
it's kind of shocking. So is it

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does it always benefit you to go
to college? Well, it depends Statistically,

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that says that you're going to make
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norm if you're in the mid line
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some of your richest people your Bill
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they dropped out a lot. Yeah, Zuckerberg, You've got a lot of

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people who were very entrepreneurial. I
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you know, I have two doctoral
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make a lot more money than me. You don't have college degrees. I

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mean, my mother was an immigrant
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and died a millionaire. Okay,
so there's a lot of ambition action

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doing the work that counts for that. So, uh, you know,

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it's good to have a college degree, but not necessarily required. I mean,

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I also follow mic rose perspective.
You've got a lot of trades that

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make a lot more average plumber makes
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doctor. Yeh, dirty jobs.
Hey. Yeah. You know. You

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know who did graduate from college and
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realized that he had reached his potential
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a PhD program and went to business. Right. But point being that,

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you know, this romanticized notion of
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become the next Bill Gates or Mark
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because and they'll say, you know, Zuckerberg didn't do it. Stephen Jobs,

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I said, okay, then let
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where you got the next Apple computers. Are you building it? Okay?

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Let me go look at your software
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these people, they were gifted,
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example, a lot of people that
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who went to Harvard. Harvard attracted
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them smarter, they were looking to
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as they launched in their career they
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a lot of colleges will will recruit
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and is going to be a donor
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doctor, what is the purpose of
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number one. A lot of people
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capacity. Micro will admit to that
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some people go because they need a
technical background. If you're going to

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be an engineer, you need to
go to college. Okay, you're going

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to be a doctor, you're gonna
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be Dennis, you need to go
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If you're going to get certifications in
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you need to go to college.
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you don't need to go to college. In fact, I I tend

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to think that if you are really
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fourth generation entrepreneur. But I also
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know, did other stuff. But
in my case, and in my case,

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none of my I mean, I
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I've never busted anybody, never go
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master's in business and I got that
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needed to have some sort of credentials
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when I went to the business world, I was hired for what I

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did in the Army, not because
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doctorate is in Greek and Hebrew.
Nobody's asked me to be their rabbi.

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My second doctor in urban and the
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No one's asked me to be their
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all right, So twenty two years
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you catch that story? It was
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financial collapse, this guy had gotten
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into death, and he got a
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outraged because he couldn't find major career
opportunities in puppetry. I guess, I

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guess Sesame Street didn't want I don't
I don't remember that story. I don't

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know where you get a degree in
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Well, there's no degrees that are
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expectations for some you know, women's
studies is not a degree that you get

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expecting to make a lot of money
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the fufu degrees. But again a
lot of people don't go into the field

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of their degrees unless you're in the
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their degree field, except maybe if
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that. I mean again, I'm
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I've taught in fourteen different areas at
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been in business, but I haven't
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justice. I have taught a course
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administration. But by and large,
you know, my business now has nothing

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to do with my degree fields other
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to college twenty two years and only
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good. Yeah. So, so
the idea of becoming more worldly, better

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rounded person liberal education when it actually
meant something. You know, my daughter

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she wounded up going be you and
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she complained for two years that she
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how to write, the you know, really read purpose all these things.

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is the best thing you could have
done, and you really don't need to

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go to college to get a good
liberal education. I'm doing a study with

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Benjamin Franklin right now, and you
know, one of the one of the

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greatest contributors intellectually to our civilization.
He didn't go to college, but there's

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a process that he developed on how
to learn things. And I'm developing a

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program right now called Benjamin Franklin for
him where you don't need to go to

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college to get this great level education. It's all sitting there on books in

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the library or on disc or online. Yeah, it's it's all there.

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when I was growing up in school, high school and such. Some of

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them I didn't read and I just
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and read those books sometimes I did
audio books. And so the concept though

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that just because you graduate from college
or graduate school, you're done learning.

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Isn't it true, though, that
all going to school does is give you

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the tools to find out what you
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the job market. Yeah, that's
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colleges. You get the tools to
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how to write. I mean,
I remember I was teaching a political science

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class, and I was requiring these
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period. And I had this girl
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why are we writing all these papers? I thought this was a government class

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and not an English class. And
I said, young lady, you take

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composition so that you can write papers
for the other classes. And you know,

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and and a lot of people who
go to college really don't have a

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concept or what their room is supposed
to really supposed to gain out of college.

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I didn't gain that until I was
in my PhD program staying here.

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Well, my thing was wasn't serious
till I took a semester off. I

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was ill. I came back and
I went to night school, and I

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was surrounded by all these students who, most of them first one in their

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family to go to college, and
they were going to college to get a

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degree, whether it was accounting or
whatever, to further improve their career and

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job prospects. And they were so
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you know, it was just a
much more intellectually stimulating environment. Even though

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they had worked a full day of
work and now they were in school,

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trying to you know, to get
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I mean when I got my master's
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the army. I went to school
at night and there was seven of us

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who doubled up. We finished our
NBA in fifty weeks. We doubled up

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work together, got through it.
Went to school at night, and then

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for the rest of my my graduate
degrees, I always in school at night.

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Went again, You're there with more
serious people the day students were you

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tend to tended to be still a
little more cology and you want to use

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that worst so much partiers, But
they didn't take it as seriously. But

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the guys at night, I mean, I mean, I remember some of

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my public administrations class I had when
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managers from Dallas, director of the
Dart system. I mean, there were

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some pretty pretty heavy hitters. I'm
chief of police from one of the suburbs,

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so you know, but these people
were serious about learning this and getting

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a better education. Yeah, hey, I remembering their prospects. In law

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school, I had a guy who
was the head of the Army Corps of

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Engineers for like New York State and
the whole northeast. He was a general

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and he said, you know,
I'm going to law school because most of

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the problems I have now have nothing
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Therefore, that's why I'm here.
He was pretty amazing. So so

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how do you get to go to
school for free? Well, well,

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we're very simple. You. First
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uh grades, test scores, class
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to expel this myth about test optional. Okay, except for the state schools

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in California, it is still important
to get good test scores. I don't

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care what they say. People are
using this as an it's used to blow

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off test scores. But the common
data set, that's the data set that

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all the colleges report in that if
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percent band, what they what they
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half again better if if you have
test scores in that band. That's just

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the statistics, and the people sit
there and try to poopoo. This is

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now what happens. But these test
optional things, particularly when you're doing high

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profile schools, your Stanfords and your
princess and stuff. They now have a

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lower acceptance rate because the number of
people who applied have doubled, the same

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number of people get in, but
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number of people who are who are
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on a wing and a prayer,
and it becomes a I mean, I

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think I think one of the colleges
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on application fees because so many more
people are doing the wing in the prayer

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a bit and uh, and they
think that there's an easy way to do

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it. We don't have to do
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deal with heads of heads of prep
academies and they said, well, we

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don't need to do TESTA. Yes, you do. They're not keeping up

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with the information, so test scores
are important. I mean, and if

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you and eighty five percent of the
colleges in the country will admit you and

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scholarship you on metrics alone. I
mean, at University of Alabama, a

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three point five and a thirty two
act will get you one hundred and twelve

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thousand dollars in scholarship money. Automatically. Wow, that's remarkable. Well yeah,

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so yeah, this whole thing of
getting rid of the tests, I

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just think is wrong. Yeah,
the tests. There's a reason they give

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tests. Yeah, you gotta have
you got to have a common denominator because

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with all the great inflation that goes
on and the weighted GPA stuff like,

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there's no way of figuring out somebody
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thing that we have right now.
Uh. And SAP scrambling right now with

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their new test. I'm not a
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more to ACT. It's a more
legitimate test. Yeah. Well, it's

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just like IQ tests. There is
no better predictor of success in life than

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IQ tests, whether you like it
or not. It's the truth of the

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matter. And all tests indirectly reflect
the IQ, don't they in a sense?

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Yes? Okay, but you can't
say that I can raise you know,

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because I help somebody raise their SAT
score four hundred points, I don't

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necessarily help them raise their IQ.
I've taught I've taught them how to,

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let's say, beat the test,
which is what I really don't. I

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don't teach people math, reading or
grammar or whatever on the tests. I

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teach him how to beat the test
using inductive in deducted reason. I do

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this for the l s AT,
the MCAT, the DAD, all of

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the other tests. Gre you can
beat these tests. Oh yeah, I

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know, like go. Originally I
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not a good test taker. And
this is back when the scores where the

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hundreds. I got five fifty.
I spent the summer at Stanley Kaplan.

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He was one of the first elsat
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went up to seven hundred, and
I don't think I got that much smarter,

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but I knew the hacks. I
knew what to expect and to not

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get phased by the test, not
let the tests psych me out. That's

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right, that's right. I mean
my daughter was the top score at University

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of Texas Arlington. She was the
top l s AT score. I ran

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the numbers on that two hundred and
forty two people scored higher than her on

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the L set and then forty five
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Remarkable, and it was just getting
you know, being being able to

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hack the test. Yeah, so
test taking is a whole art in itself.

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And unfortunately for my education, and
I went to pretty good public schools,

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they didn't really ever teach us how
to take tests. Most of them

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don't. Well, you know,
SAT test is primarily well, just take

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practice tests. Well, if you
just take practice tests over and over and

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over again, you're going to get
the same result over and over and over

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again. That's a definition of insanity. Right. You've got to have a

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you've got to have a system of
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and developing techniques on Well, for
example, we teach our students to answer

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the reading passages without doing the reading. And how to do math is a

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sixty to seventy percent of the math
can be done with inductive and deductive reading

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without having a crunch numbers. Right, Hey, I just remember I took

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a real estate test at California number
of years ago. Granted I was a

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lawyer for thirty something years, but
I was by far the oldest person in

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that room, and I had done
minimal studying. I did some I won't

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say I didn't. I took it
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an hour and past it. So
you know, it's really because I knew

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how to take the test, and
it wasn't. You had experience, you

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have intelligence, You're always you're always
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But I you know, I also
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and whatever they that need to take
a test on. I teach them how

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to disliked the test and beat the
test. Yeah. Well, it's amazing

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when you get into a mindset where
the test psychs you. I mean,

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I hear people in Florida here at
six seven, eight times they took the

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real estate exam and failed. And
I'm not saying it's an easy test by

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any stretch, especially if you have
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transaction. It's not an easy test. But thirty thousand people in Palm Beach

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County managed to pass it, and
a lot of them have not a clue

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what they're doing. So interesting,
So when you're doing test prep, what's

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the most important thing? You think, Well, it's it's actually dedicating the

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time and doing proper test prep.
Now, we we follow a very strict

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processes we have you. We have
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because we don't try to do the
timing and learning test taking techniques because

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it's like trying to change a tire
with the car's rulings. It's not very

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good. Strate So first we'll get
good and then we'll get fast. So

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we have them go through when we
train them on all the little hacks you

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know how to understand. We'll look
at the last digit or look for semi

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colons and periods and think there's little
hacks that you do right. And then

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then they take the test, and
then they go back and they would do

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what's called a critique and all the
answers they got wrong, they reverse engineer

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the answers, and then they go
back and they said, Okay, I

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answered as incorrect. I took a
because and you want to erase that neuropathway

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in your brain that got you that
bad answer. And then you say,

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this is what I should have done
to get the correct answer. And what

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you do is you bore a new
pathway, so when you see that similar

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question again, you're going to get
it right. Well, we have them

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take the same test three times.
Now, there was a study done that

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they took two groups of people.
One group took an sat the same test

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test one once, sent test one
twice, test one three times, and

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another group took test one two three, and then it gave test four.

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The group that did the same test
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after a while they were able to
recognize the patterns that were involved, they

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were able to observe and some people, once you get to that point,

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you're able to look at the question, figure it out real quick and intuitively

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get the correct answer using inductive and
deductive reasoning. And that's what we teach

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them to do. And we have
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then we work on timing. So
they assume we do a lot of this

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online, and now it's all done
online, we have to say, you

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know, one of the things that
we do is we tell them mark,

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if you're using a paper test,
mark your answers in the test booklets,

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and then at certain points you transfer
your answers in batches and reduces coding error

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and you depending on the link of
the test, you'll say three to five

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minutes, sort of going back and
forth, trying to reorient every time every

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time you transfer answer you transferred batches
as simple as that. One thing I

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find so interesting is the contrast between
like an SAT or an ACT and a

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state licensing test. Your goals are
totally different there. Sat els at whatever

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you want to get the highest score
you possibly can achieve, and you get

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every point in the licensing test.
All you want to do is get seventy

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or seventy five. You just want
to pass. You just want to pass.

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And it's so different, Like because
I'm studying the real estate exam and

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I'm getting upset because I'm not getting
over ninety percent and I should be doing

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better than this, you know.
And then I said, well, wait

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a second, the ninety I'll still
pass it because you only need seventy or

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seventy five. And I realized I
was focusing on the wrong the wrong priorities

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here. Yeah. Well, the
difference also is that your real Estate exam

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is content origent. You have to
know the material, Okay, you can't

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cipher through that test, whereas SAT
and ACT their aptitude based and you can

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cipher through the test. If you
learn to do the proper test taking techniques,

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you'll raise your score. So it's
not so much content. I mean

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you have to know your basic math
functions, and you have to know basic

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grammar. Right, you're not you're
not. It's not you're not. Your

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grammar is not being tested. Your
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Yeah, and then they got all
those like little trick questions that they

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ask to trip you up. And
those follow a distinct pattern too, don't

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they. Yeah, yeah, well
ACT is notorious using me. SAT is

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notorious for that. ACT doesn't doesn't
have a lot of trick questions. But

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that's how SAT makes its questions more
difficult. They put more trick questions in

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and not so much that it's a
higher level matheism, but they'll put it.

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And so we show them the different
types of questions. We have what's

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called the bonehead answer or the landmine
answer, you know, sucker answer,

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things like that that they put in
there. So we have to make sure

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that students can recognize these upfront.
I remember maybe it was the bar exam.

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They said, there's one question that
you will see that you always know

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you know the answer too, and
that is that they will give an example

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and then one of the things will
be this is an example of the doctrine

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of the fruit of the poisonous tree
you know theory. I mean you always

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knew instantly because nobody knew what the
fruit of the poisonous tree theory was,

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but it was always in there.
And yeah, I guess it's it's the

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same at all. They just put
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and once you see it, you
smile, and that helps improve your

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confidence to a confidence with test taking
is everything, isn't it? Well,

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that's that's part of it. And
plus you know when I tell people how

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do I prepare for a test in
college, and I go, you have

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to know the material? Okay,
As I go back to mister Miyagi,

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best block is not be there,
Okay, best best way for an academic

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test is know the material. There's
no you know, there are certain test

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taking techniques you can do to make
sure you don't screw up and make fewer

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mistakes, but if you're if you're
taking in an English exam, you have

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to know the material. If you
don't know the material, there's no substitute

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for knowing the material. Yeah,
I remember with courses like you know,

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I'd look at the I'd go to
the back of the chapter at the questions

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first before I did anything, and
then I would pay very close attention to

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what the teachers said and trying to
figure out what questions they were going to

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ask on the exam. That way, it was a lot easier, you

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know, I didn't have to go
through learning a bunch of stuff that wasn't

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necessarily productible. We have a course, it's called Learning Dynamics on how to

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do how to take notes, how
to book notes, how to take class

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notes, and where they overlap,
where your questions on the tests are going

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to be. And if you know
the questions on the test, or you

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write questions that are tougher than the
questions on the test, then it's then

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then you're going to know the material. That's we have an entire process how

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to read, study, test and
write better, faster and easier. You

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know, if people use this system. I mean, we've had kids take

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off. I've had kids graduate from
high school as youngest thirteen. I've had

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people graduate from college as young as
sixteen. I had nineteen year olds get

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into med school. I had an
eighteen year old sit for the California Bar

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amazing, and you know, but
now these are not typical kids, but

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they were very ambitious barn Burner kids, and they were they were suffocating in

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a conventional school environment. Understandable,
I know that. Feeling quite well and

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all right, so hey, just
tell us how we connect with you,

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how we find out more about what
you're offering here and hopefully get a piece

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of that scholarship and grant pie.
Yeah, well, they can contact me

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at Beasley College Bred It's b E
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dot com. Depending on how much
bendwidth we have, I will and your

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your participants here. We will give
them a free consult Let's show them,

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you know, what they need to
do. And we're not We're not here

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to make a sales pitch. We're
here to help people, and you know,

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we'll tell them what they need to
do and if there's a place that

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we can help them. Now we
can help just about anybody. But you

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know, a lot of times we
can tell people to do and make a

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good decision and they can proceed with
it, and that's what we're looking to

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do. Excellent. Well, hey, we appreciate you coming on doctor A.

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