San Mateo High School • SAT · ACT · PSAT
The digital SAT's adaptive module structure rewards students who execute cleanly under pressure. The ACT changed in 2025. Science is now optional and does not count toward the composite score. For San Mateo students who previously avoided the ACT, the current format is worth reconsidering.
Test anxiety is not a personality trait. It is a performance management gap. A-Game Access™ builds the mental preparation to bring peak performance states into test-day conditions. The San Mateo High documented outcome, a 35 ACT after years of underperforming under test pressure, is the clearest illustration of what that preparation produces.
The Trial Session
The free trial on Zoom includes a diagnostic, direct work with Michael, and a follow-up call with both student and parent. Michael presents a specific recommendation: which test gives the student the best opportunity, how far their score may be able to go, a recommended training plan, and which upcoming test dates are most strategic. No financial commitment until both sides agree.
Every Session
Sessions are two hours long and combine individualized coaching, structured practice, and timed work using official SAT and ACT material. Students stay actively engaged while receiving ongoing guidance and feedback from Michael throughout the session. No homework.
The Guarantee
Students who complete the agreed program and are not satisfied with their results continue at no additional cost after the agreed session cap until they are satisfied or available testing opportunities have been exhausted.
The Mr. Test Prep Method™ builds the execution strategies and pattern recognition that transfer directly to test conditions. A-Game Access™ is the mindfulness and peak performance system built into every session — addressing the gap between practice performance and test-day performance.
The San Mateo High School student who scored a 35 on the ACT after years of underperforming on real tests was not missing content knowledge. She had it. What she was missing was a reliable way to access that knowledge under test-day conditions, the time pressure, the unfamiliar room, the silent proctor walking between rows, the stakes.
A-Game Access™ teaches specific pre-test and in-test practices that build a reproducible performance state. Working alongside the Mr. Test Prep Method™, which handles the content and execution side, these practices are not vague relaxation techniques. They are structured, practiced in session, and tested under real timed conditions before a student deploys them on an actual test date. By the time a San Mateo High student sits for the SAT or ACT after working with Michael, they have performed under timed conditions dozens of times with the A-Game Access™ system in place. Test day is not new. The room is different, but the performance state is familiar.
Michael's background in psychology (Duke University) shapes the A-Game Access™ approach. The performance gap between practice and test day is a well-documented phenomenon in sports psychology and performance research. The tools that address it in elite athletic contexts are the same tools that work in standardized test settings, and they are teachable, practicable, and measurable in their effects.
For San Mateo High students managing this gap, the first step is the free trial session, which includes an introduction to A-Game Access™ alongside the diagnostic. The parent follow-up call after the trial covers whether the gap is primarily content, primarily performance management, or both, and builds the preparation plan accordingly.
The diagnostic produces a specific recommendation: which test gives the student the best opportunity, how far their score may be able to go, a recommended training plan, and which upcoming test dates are most strategic.
Yes. That is the specific situation it was built to address. Multiple testimonials at mrtestprep.com reference the mindfulness component specifically as a contributor to final scores.
The trial is a two-hour Zoom session where your student works through a diagnostic with guidance and feedback from Michael throughout. Afterward Michael calls both student and parent with a specific recommendation: which test gives the student the best opportunity, how far their score may be able to go, a recommended training plan, and which upcoming test dates are most strategic.
The trial is free with no obligation to continue.