CMU SAMS 2017

testprepguy
Sun, 28 May 2017 14:42:33 +0000

Hello! I’m actually the guy that teaches the SAT/ACT prep course for SAMS. I’ve been teaching the course in one form or another since 2008, and I’ve been teaching test prep for almost 20 years.

What ak2018 said is mostly accurate. The test prep we do is geared toward high-performing students who are looking to maximize their scores. While we do some content-oriented triage at the beginning, the focus is on test strategy and knowing yourself as a test-taker. Although we’ve had score jumps as high as 200 points, using average score increases as a measure of our success is problematic because, as ak2018 pointed out, many students are coming in with good scores already, so their score increases tend to look less impressive.