<p>What do you think is the biggest problem in SAT test prep?</p>
<p>One of the largest issues that I see in students that they don’t spend enough time on reflecting on why they got a question wrong. Sure, students will see specifically why they got a question wrong – he forgot the meaning of “erudite”. But very few students will generalize and realize that they need to study all vocab.</p>
<p>They learn how to get that one fish, but don’t know how to fish in general, if that make sense. Do you guys agree that this is the largest problem for most students in getting a good SAT score? What are the largest issues for you?</p>
<p>How large “prep” companies separate naive customers from their hard earned money through worthless group classes. A model that relies on “instructors” who are just a notch above their very average students is seemingly borrowed from the same idea that TAs can be college professors.</p>
<p>Other problems?</p>
<p>Plenty of glorified amateurs who think they understand the SAT, and offer VERY poor advice. </p>
<p>I think the biggest problem is the fact that people spend hundreds of dollars on tutors and classes, when they could be doing better just by using the internet and doing practice tests.
They think they can buy a higher score, rather than actually get it.</p>
<p>Also because people try to do everything they can to get a higher score (like practice guessing techniques, most common answers, take it during specific times of the year, etc.) rather than actually study.</p>
<p>people only use “not having time” as an excuse because they don’t feel like studying. I managed to fit in 10 practice tests in a 3 week period along with my rigorous 5 AP course schedule, boy scouts, swimming, and band…</p>
<p>The fact that the College Board is so stingy about releasing practice material. If they were genuinely concerned with helping kids they would release more real material. Most current prep material put out by the larger test prep companies doesn’t properly mirror the real test.</p>