| I always thought these test prep courses were stupid. I didn't give a crap about anything when I was in high school, and my parents forced me to go to some SAT prep course (which was for the reading and writing parts only, I was fine with math). I did the silly work for it and did horribly on the SAT the first time I took it. I got something like a 1730 on it, and only a 570 on reading and 550 on writing. The second time around, I knew where I wanted to go to college, and the one big weakness on my application was my low SAT score. So I took it again (with clear incentive to do well), studied on my own, and got a relatively decent 2010 or something like that. In reading, I went up to 600 and in writing to 720.
Oh, and in actual high school (I went to private school), I had to take this stupid "Study Skills" class. In one part of it, we had some silly SAT Prep. Anyway, that didn't help me either. We did have to study Latin roots for a test once, which was stupid. Here's my blunt philosophy: IF YOU HAVE TO STUDY LATIN TO LEARN ENGLISH VOCABULARY, PICK UP A BOOK. |