Category: Counseling

  • Understanding and Leveraging Learning Styles: Zinkerz’s Guide to Personalized Education

    Understanding and Leveraging Learning Styles: Zinkerz’s Guide to Personalized Education

    Explore different learning styles and their unique strengths with Zinkerz’s learning style quiz. Understand whether you’re a verbal, auditory, kinesthetic, or visual learner and discover personalized strategies to elevate your learning journey. Learning styles encompass individuals’ various preferences when it comes to acquiring knowledge. Since everyone learns differently, understanding one’s learning style can greatly enhance…

  • More Than Just Sunshine: How Weather Shapes Your College Experience

    More Than Just Sunshine: How Weather Shapes Your College Experience

    Unpack the unassuming role of weather in shaping your college experience. From influencing campus architecture to study habits, discover how climate can subtly impact your student life and decision-making process. When considering your college options, one of the things that won’t come to mind is the weather. There are more demanding things on the list,…

  • From High School to Higher Education: A Freshman’s Guide to Thriving in College

    From High School to Higher Education: A Freshman’s Guide to Thriving in College

    Unleashing Opportunities, Navigating Challenges, and Crafting a Successful Journey through Your First Year at University! Congratulations on starting college! This is an exhilarating time in your life where there are many opportunities to learn, make friends, and grow. Understandably, sometimes it can be hard moving away from home. Although it can feel overwhelming, there is…

  • Discover Your True Self: Unlock Your Potential with Our Personality Test for Students

    Discover Your True Self: Unlock Your Potential with Our Personality Test for Students

    With over 7 billion people on the planet, there is almost endless diversity regarding how we experience and interact with the world around us. It is always interesting to meet people we have things in common with and those who are different from us; both are valuable learning experiences!  While each of us is unique…

  • Mastering Your Digital Footprint: A Student’s Guide to Social Media Etiquette

    Mastering Your Digital Footprint: A Student’s Guide to Social Media Etiquette

    Social media has become one of the most common places to communicate with friends and family, especially for college students. Not only has social media become a place for communication, but now users can create their businesses and brands just from a social media platform. Social media can be used for marketing, advertising, exploring job…

  • 5 Geometry Trends on the SAT Math Test

    5 Geometry Trends on the SAT Math Test

    Previously, we looked at five trends related to algebra on the SAT Math test and how to approach a question centered around each test. But of course, there is much more on the SAT Math section than just algebra! This time, we’ll turn our attention to the types of geometry problems that have been appearing…

  • Building Your College List: Quality Over Quantity

    Building Your College List: Quality Over Quantity

    For many students, knowing where to begin when thinking about college applications can be difficult. Everyone—from parents to teachers to your fellow students—may have strong opinions about which colleges you should apply to. While there are certain colleges and universities that many students will consider their “dream school,” the college application process isn’t just about…

  • How Can I Help My Child in Math Without Doing It for Them?

    How Can I Help My Child in Math Without Doing It for Them?

    Teaching someone math seems like it shouldn’t be that hard. In theory, you should be able to just do the math in front of them, explaining your steps along the way, and then they will be able to do it too. But in practice, it’s not that simple. It turns out that teaching math is…

  • 5 Algebra Trends on the SAT Math Test

    5 Algebra Trends on the SAT Math Test

    Here at Zinkerz, we closely monitor trends in the SAT to bring our students the most up-to-date test-taking strategies. We try to get inside the minds of the test makers to help our students out-think the exam! Let’s review some algebra topics popping up on the SAT recently and tackle the best way to solve…

  • A Little Healthy Competition Goes a Long Way

    A Little Healthy Competition Goes a Long Way

    Racing to the finish line isn’t fun if you break the tape on a vacant track. Competitive sports are exciting for a reason: they engage, challenge, and allow you to see the payoff of your hard work. There may be some hesitation when considering a competitive environment for a student’s academics. The doubt is understandable;…