MindGym Philippines

• Would you like a memory upgrade?
• How about a life full of friends, higher grades, a better business or career, an ageless mind, less anxieties and lots of time for fun?
• Would you like to experience how your own brain works magic after learning a few memory tips and doing light brain workouts?

Yes, you can! when you join MindGym Philippines’ memory coach and professional teacher Albert Basa in a 3-hour enjoyable Memory Improvement Encounter.

Choose ONE of two workshops depending on whether you are a student or professional/adult/senior.

For students: Remember and recall lessons so you can ace your exams and eliminate test anxieties as you remember twice as much facts in a fraction of a time (and free-up hours for family and friends)

For businessmen, professionals, housewives/husbands, senior citizens:
Improve your memory for life (definitely good for seniors); Remember people’s names and faces, quotes, lyrics of songs; deliver note-less presentations; shop efficiently; make mental notes of vital actions (like where you parked your car or kept valuable things)

Boost your super memory this mini break (students) and before the new year sets in (adults).  Grab a P 900 discount from the regular workshop training investment through ensogo Philippines vouchers.

Hurry!

An earlier LET for the first batch of test takers in 2012 as posted by the Professional Regulations Commission came as a surprise to us (it’s been moved to March 11, 2012!).

Since the time MindGym started coaching in October 2009, the initial LET for a given year was usually scheduled on the first week of April.  With this change, we will have to start conducting our intensive coaching for LET sessions before the year ends or just after the release of September 2011 exam results.  This means a working Christmas season for licensed teachers-to-be and MindGym coaches and teachers.

PRC Chairperson Teresita Manzala’s memorandum announcing the PRC schedule for 2012 reads:

The PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION announces that the first Licensure Examination for Teachers (L.E.T.) for Calendar Year 2012 will be held on Sunday, March 11, 2012 in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga.

All qualified applicants may file their applications on the dates and places below:

Filing Period :

First Timer : October 3, 2011 to January 13, 2012

Repeater : October 3, 2011 to December 29, 2011

Filing Centers:

PRC Regional Offices in the cities of:  Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga

NO APPLICANTS WILL BE ADMITTED BEYOND THE ABOVE STATED

With the above announcement,  it’s about time you prepare for your PRC LET requirements for application now.

Looking for a LET coach? Contact MindGym Philippines at 437-5880 or text 0927-877-0800 now.

For LET test takers who are not from Manila or are quite far from MindGym Philippines’ review center in Quezon City, you may want to check our online LET review site, take a trial LET test and decide whether you want to review live or take our online LET review through MyReviewCoach.com.

File at your nearest PRC office and start reviewing as soon as you can! For more details about our LET review sessions, click here.

Use it or lose it is a cliche which applies for muscle building as much as memory training.  Students have to use their memory powers to remember information, pass exams, and get good grades.  When students graduate from their educational institutions, they tend to stop using their memory and to exercise their brains, thus leading to the misconception that memory worsens with age.  It may deteriorate  BUT only if we allow it.

Boost your memory power by learning simple memory techniques useful for school and everyday living!  Enroll at MindGym Philippines’ Memory Advantage Workshop (MAW) facilitated by memory coach and professional teacher Albert Basa (as interviewed at GMA News to Go by Kara David).

This October, MindGym will start conducting a 3-hour workshop to provide basic, easy-to-use, and effective memory techniques which requires shorter time and lower training investment.  The cost of the workshop including materials, certificate, and light snacks is a very reasonable  amount of P 1,500.

With the use of memory techniques, here’s a range of things students and adults can achieve.

Students will have better chances to ace exams in any academic subject by remembering and recalling lessons to the details; eliminate test anxieties; and remember twice as much facts in a fraction of a time — thus, leaving more time for play, relaxation, and family affairs.

Businessmen, professional, housewives/husbands, and senior citizens can expect to improve their memory throughout your lifetime (yes, even with age); remember people’s names and faces, quotes and lyrics of songs; deliver noteless presentations; associate products with their prices and shop efficiently; and make mental notes of important actions (like where you parked your car or kept valuable things).

Enroll now.  Call MindGym Philippines at 4375880 or 9860944 for updates on schedule of classes.

Sharing one’s knowledge, skills, and talents to the country’s education hub of future leaders is a pride for MindGym Philippines.  This August 18, 2011, through a two-hour interactive group session,  MindGym Philippines memory coach Albert A. Basa will share with students of the University of the Philippines (UP) memory techniques to help them get an edge in class through efficient memory retention and effective recall.  The session encapsulates basic techniques taught in MindGym’s 15-hour Memory Advantage Workshop (MAW) for small groups.  Through fun learning activities, coach Albert will give students just enough feel of how to quickly memorize a string of words and numbers through techniques like association, chaining and visualization.

Entitled “Forget Me Not“, this mini memory advantage workshop is sponsored by the UP Samahan sa Agham Pampulitika (UP SAPUL) as its contribution to the university-wide ACLE (Alternative Classroom Experience) held every semester.  Students’ attendance to an ACLE session may be credited towards partial fulfillment of requirements for selected courses taken by students during the semester.

MindGym’s involvement in UP ACLE jibes with its corporate aim of engaging in nonformal, nontraditional, lifelong learning training pursuits.

In two months, you’ll be taking the Licensure Examinations for Teachers. Have you started your LET preparation yet? Are you still looking for a LET review center or materials to use in your self-review?

Are you staying far from our Quezon City center? Or can’t meet our center review schedule because of work, school, or family commitments?

Then study and review online for the Licensure Examination our My Review Coach!

All you need is computer access, an internet connection, 2-3 hours of daily learning a day, and of course personal discipline, analytical and study skills, and motivation to study by yourself.

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Looking for a high performing review center for April 2011?

Aiming to top the LET? or to work on passing the LET once and for all?

Balancing time between work, home, and school and wanting to squeeze in time to review to guarantee topping and passing the LET?

Preferring a cozier, friendlier, and more personal review environment?

Learning best in small, cooperative group settings?

Just wanting to brush up and polish LET knowledge and skills?

Close to Quezon City?

If yes, then MindGym’s intensive coaching for LET is for you.

MindGym’s track record since it first offered LET coaching for the September 2009 (Ondoy days) LET until the recent September 2010 LET includes nine topnotchers:

• September 2010:  Jean Millare (Top 1), Aicel Mior Alcantara (Top 5), and Jayson Calventas (Top 7)
• April 2010:  Ma. Adeinev Reyes (Top 3), Melane Manalo (Top 3), Noel Carena (Top 6), and Rona Lumba (Top 7)
• September 2009:  Ma. Angelica Villafuerte (Top 4) and Sheryl Raquipison( Top 5).

Passing rate for first timers in the September 2010 LET was 92%, a commendable mark relative to the national average of around 22% for both elementary and secondary levels.

MindGym’s LET coaching consists of:

• 17 full days of LET refreshers in General Education, Professional Education, and selected specializations, inclusive of 3-day final coaching ;
• Educational, efficient, and fun-filled interactive class presentations;
• Comprehensive, relevant, and easy-to-read LET review materials;
• Frequent LET-patterned test and drills; and
• Special memory tools and study techniques.

MindGym’s LET reviewers are caring, committed, and (generally) young  coaches with the penchant to share their knowledge and skills in their area of expertise to empower LET reviewees not only to top and pass the LET but to become good teachers in their own communities.   Majority are LET topnotchers in their own batches; hence, freely sharing with reviewees their winning strategies for the LET.  Leading MindGym’s pool of reviewers is Albert A. Basa, Top 3, April 2009 LET.  Other LET MindGym topnotchers handling special topics are:  Ma. Adeinev Reyes, Melane Manalo, Angelica Villafuerte, and Rona Lumba. Glenn Gilongos, Top 1, 2005 LET serves as final coaching resource speaker for Mathematics.  UP professors and honor graduates, other subject experts, and selected top LET performers of MindGym also contribute their talents in rounding the MindGym LET coaching experience.

MindGym’s uniqueness comes mainly from its caring, and unselfish desire to help its LET reviewees reach their goals of topping or passing the LET  as it attends to particular needs of each reviewee to the best it can — in a homey, friendly, and comfortable atmosphere.

April 2011 LET review registration now going on.

Schedule of review:  every Saturday and Sunday, 9a.m. to 6p.m.

Batch 1:  January 8, 2011

Batch 2:  January 15, 2011

Batch 3:  January 23, 2011

3-day Final Coaching:  March 18, 19, and 20.

MindGym accepts a limited number  of  reviewees to ensure that each reviewee can freely ask questions, closely interact with peers and coaches, and be attended to adequately during the review.

Sessions are conducted at MindGym, La Casa MIA Building, 219 J. P. Rizal, Project 4, Quezon City (accessible by jeepney from Cubao.)

For inquiries and reservations, contact 4375880 or 984-0944 or text 09278770800 or 0939-8999989 or email – mindgym.inc@gmail.com.

Before deciding to enroll at MindGym, take our FREE LET diagnostic test to know your readiness for LET.

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Are you taking the LET this September? How do you plan to go about reviewing? Are you reviewing by yourself? with a study partner? or with your college chums? Or are you currently attending a review class at MindGym or another center?

Do you know what specific topics to cover in your review? Which topics are your strengths? or weaknesses? Have you allocated time for a daily or weekly review? What review materials are accessible to you? Are these materials adequate and reliable?

It’s barely 3 months or 87 days to go before the 26 September 2010 LET (Licensure Examination for Teachers). By this time, you would have thought about or done your LET review plans. You may probably have started refreshing your stock knowledge with the use of a commercial reviewer, your old university references and notes or MindGym’s intensive coaching materials (if you’ve joined us last May 15). You may have received hand me down LET reviewers and study tips from family and friends. So the ball is in your hands.

The coaches at MindGym still have 2 groups of reviewees to coach starting July 17 and 18. Our reviewees would surely find reviewing effective, meaningful and fun — with us. Although we want to enable as many entry-level teachers aiming to pass the LET, we can not yet reach as far nor accommodate as much in our La Casa MIA center. We have yet to gather enough resources to meet varying demands of LET takers. We have yet to make our reviewers more attuned to a bigger and more heterogeneous group. We have yet to “clone” ourselves to make sure that our LET reviewers are cared for by equally committed newer and younger coaches.

In the meantime, we want to share what we have on hand, through this series of FREE online LET work outs — mainly for the benefit of the many aspiring teachers all over the country whose only means to hurdle the LET would be to self review and get a little guidance from their remote kapamilya at MindGym. May these workouts also serve all others reviewing for the LET in their journey towards becoming professional teachers.

This July 1, we’ll start what is supposedly the easiest subject for many LET takers: English.

For the LET, English would comprise 20% of the General Education (GenEd) competency or roughly 30 items. Based on the Professional Regulatory Commission Board of Professional Teachers — Table of Specifications for the LET), English would cover and have weights relative to total GenEd items as follows:

Study and thinking skills 6%

Writing in the discipline 5%

Speech and oral communication 3%

Philippine literature 4%

Master works of the world 2%

So, here’s the English quickie for today.

1. Your mother is paying for your plane ticket, ___________?

A. isn’t it C. isn’t she

B. is she D. aren’t you

2. The words “inappropriate, illegal, irresponsible, and unaware” have prefixes which are classified as _________.

A. positive C. negative

B. common D. neutral

3. Which among these words has the “z” end sound?

A. Maps C. Laughs

B. Jokes D. Buys

4. What figure of speech is in the following line from the poem “The Brook”?

The second time it was a tiny snake.”

A. Personification C. Simile

B. Metaphor D. Apostrophe

5. The person in the lines below could be characterized as __________.

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rage at close of day;

Raged, against the dying of the light.

-Dylan Thomas

A. pessimistic C. courageous

B. violent D. strong

We hope you find these exercises a good warm up for the succeeding MindGym work outs you’ll have to accomplish. Answers will be posted tomorrow.

What can you say about these warm up items in English?

Conducted by April 2009 Top 3, Albert Basa, and other LET placers who are not only academically proficient but who really care to help reviewers pass the LET; LET refresher includes several drills in GenEd and ProfEd competencies to be tested and coaching on Majorship.

At the end of 10 days, trainees will bring home LET memory tools for easy recall of knowledge; proven test taking tips and techniques for passing the LET; and the confidence to pass even even top the LET.

We are accepting only 25 reviewees per batch to ensure that each reviewee can freely ask questions on subjects of concern and closely interact with peers and coaches. Read more