Provided herein is a method for preparing a class group of students for taking an achievement test in a subject. The test includes a plurality of questions directed to a plurality of different test subject categories relating to the subject. In one embodiment, the method comprises the following acts. A set of subject measures is defined. Each measure corresponds to one or more of the subject categories. The number of subject measures in the set is sufficiently less than the number of different subject categories. Each student in the class group is provided with a learning aid for each measure. The students are presented with one or more assessment tests throughout a school year in preparation for the achievement test. Each student is administered a chart to track his/her performance for each measure on the assessment tests. The students are then caused to use the learning aids in connection with their charted measure scores when the subject is being taught to the class group.