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February 6, 2016 by Mike Bergin

How The Super Bowl is Like The SAT and ACT

Ah, the Super Bowl is upon us once more, and an entire world awaits epic entertainment from NFL athletes and advertisers alike. Not everyone loves football as much as I do, or considers Super Bowl Sunday one of the year’s finest holidays. But everybody, even the most ardent opponent of this sometimes-reviled sport, understands that every football player and coach that will be facing off in the big game reached the championship through massive expenditures of talent, skill, and commitment.

Basically, you don’t get here…

Fireworks go off as the Seattle Seahawks win following the Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on February 2, 2014.  The Seattle Seahawks whipped the Denver Broncos 43-8 in the first Super Bowl held in a cold weather site.  UPI/Dennis Van Tine

…without countless hours here…

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…and here.

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Every professional sporting event highlights competitors exerting themselves against challenges, challengers, and the limitations of the human body and mind. The SAT and ACT share much in common with even the highest-stakes game. Test takers must achieve their highest levels of performance just as the pressure is greatest, which means that nobody earns their very best scores without massive expenditures of talent, skill, and commitment. If you aren’t practicing right now, you should be; your competition undoubtedly is.

Whether you are an athlete or academic, you have goals. Realize that you cannot win on either game day or test day without earning that victory a hundred times over in practice. And while only one NFL team a year can hoist the coveted Lombardi Trophy, any student can win the SAT or ACT. As long as your test score, earned through extensive practice of a proven plan and delivered when it counts, represents the fulfillment of your true potential, you are a champion.

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Mike Bergin
Tens of thousands of students a year prep for the SAT & ACT through programs Mike Bergin created or organized. After more than 25 years of intensive experience in the education industry, he's done it all as a teacher, tutor, director, curriculum developer, blogger, podcaster, and best-selling author. Mike founded Chariot Learning in 2009 to deliver on the promise of what truly transformative individualized education can and should be.

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