<p>[46-year-old</a> mom takes the SAT’s seven times as she makes it her goal to make a perfect score. - NYPOST.com](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mom_test_run_fXlS4deCnHMARJEK6Szr0H]46-year-old”>Mom’s ‘test’ run)</p>
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<p>Isn’t Great Neck about 35 miles south of Westchester? For that kind of money, she might have found a few alternatives and willing entrepreneurs! Or she might have spent a few “more” hours on College Confidential. </p>
<p>Here’s the link to her “journey” [One</a> Mom’s Quest to Ace the SATs | Perfect Score Project](<a href=“http://perfectscoreproject.com/about/]One”>http://perfectscoreproject.com/about/) I have not read it with great attention and cannot comment on the reason why she has been unable to raise her math score as it is the area that usually responds the best to serious preparation.</p>
<p>My perspective on stories like this one is that the money spent in an elusive quest for the Holy Grail of test preparation is usually not well spent. Year after year, it is the same story. Students spent time and money trying to identify the best mousetrap, the magical tool that will deliver the superb results without a lot of work. There ARE no secrets and no shortcuts. Of course, in this story, a lot of work was devoted to this “quest.” Leaving me with the conclusions that the test taker reached her natural maximum score, or that she did not pay the needed attention to the tutors she hired. </p>
<p>Fwiw, a student who only answers the easy to medium questions on the SAT scores well above 500 points. This means she could have left all the hard and medium to hard questions blank. </p>
<p>PS Enjoy this [The</a> Impossible Dream-Man of La Mancha - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow]The”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow)</p>