<p>Thank you MisterK.</p>
<p>Naturally, this is my favorite page at the Perfect Score website, [The</a> Xiggi Method | Perfect Score Project](<a href=“http://perfectscoreproject.com/2012/02/the-xiggi-method/]The”>http://perfectscoreproject.com/2012/02/the-xiggi-method/)</p>
<p>Interesting. I had not seen that part of the website.</p>
<p>BTW, Great Neck is out on Long Island. I’d consider it east of Westchester, with water in between .</p>
<p>I profess my ignorance about the finer points of living on the East Coast … for the reasons I have mentioned a couple of times.</p>
<p>Accordingly, I rely on google maps. Seems that it’s a pretty straight shot up and down a freeway to me. Well, perhaps not a freeway as nothing can be free in that part of the world. /smile. </p>
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<p>There must be different Westchester and Great Neck. Must have picked the wrong ones! :)</p>
<p>Depends on where in Westchester one is going. To get from Westchester to the island one goes down and up. That doesnt sound right, but you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Maybe! On my map, you’d go down for 30 miles, southeast for 5, and up for 2 miles. But that is OK, it was a silly joke anyway. </p>
<p>And quicker if you have the right chains on your car! :)</p>
<p>You are making me have flashbacks to my HS years. Many a drive from Westchester to the 5 towns (ask if you don’t know what that reference is to). I even picked up a hitchiker in the rain when I was alone at night. Shhh, don’t tell my parents. Oh wait… never mind…</p>
<p>And its probably more like down and over… from the Hutch to the LIE (thats Long Island Expressway) with a few other roads in between… or was it the cross island… or the Belt Parkway… I forget. Its been a while…</p>
<p>All I know is that a couple of years ago, I had a project that was about 10 minutes away as the crow flies. However I am in Westchester and it was on Long Island, and it always seemed to be rush hour when I had to be driving. What a nightmare! I can’t remember any of the names or numbers of the LI parkways, they all sound the same.</p>
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<p>Correct. Not free. If you take the route you’ve outlined, the cost of crossing the Throgs Neck Bridge is $6.50 (a little less for EZ Pass.) There are a few routes that would allow you to cross bridges with no tolls, but they’re so convoluted that, with the current gas prices, the extra gallon of gas you’d need to use and wear and tear on your car would be close to the cost of the toll!</p>
<p>If I’d only read the headline of the story in the original post, I’d have sworn it was from The Onion.</p>
<p>I wish she would respond to Xiggi’s first post…</p>
<p>If I felt intimidated as a grown-up, imagine as a teenager. </p>
<p>No wonder she couldn’t make 2400.</p>
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I think post #7, 9 and 10 are her response. Xiggi’s response is #14.</p>
<p>What is unfortunate is her coming onto CC to diss CC, and Kaplan, and Grockit etc. As she said, she is merely sensationalizing. Writing a book that she thinks will sell. And apparently being critical of these organizations is one way to do it. As she said, this was merely a job for her. An assignment. That said, I agree that the SAT has become bigger than it needs to be and learning how to game the system is, well, unfortunate. Xiggi has posted elsewhere how cheating has become rampant overseas. The test should measure knowledge and problem-solving, not how well one learns to beat a system. But thats perhaps a topic for a different discussion. Or then again, maybe I’d prefer she write an expose on the rampant cheating in this system. That would be interesting.</p>
<p>I miss the Miller analogies… </p>
<p>And if one wants to diss cc, take it to yahoo answers like everyone else :)</p>
<p>I have no idea how entertaining this book may or may not be, but I am not going to put much stock in anything written in the ragsheet NY Post. That’s not what I would consider a reliable source for news, articles or book reviews, to say the least.</p>
<p><strong><em>ETA</em></strong> Maybe the SAT should add a geography/cartography section to accompany the “John travels 50 mph from Westchester to Great Neck…” kind of questions. :)</p>
<p>I won’t even tell you what people go through to prep for their 20th high school reunion! :eek: A lot of people have issues left over from their time in high school…obviously, this might help this woman get over one of her issues. </p>
<p>Crazy use of time and money to me, but sounds cheaper than therapy.</p>
<p>Helps prove the validity of the SAT. Gifted son didn’t study for the math one his second time because they were reviewing material in calculus he said. Was supposed to retake the math one but ended up retaking the SAT (longer story) and got the 2400. His studying consisted of looking at some, not all, free library prep books and being forced to go through the practice test by mom (and the talent search time several years before).</p>
<p>I can think of many better ways to spend $10,000 and my time. My ego couldn’t stand not doing as well as son on the same version- my scores were nearly as good for their day and I’ll take the score recentering adjustments.</p>
<p>We may miss our long lost youth, but there are some things I am so glad to be done with. No more papers, exams of many kinds…</p>
<p>What is the point of this? </p>
<p>Personally, I think when you get less than a 600 on your math section, you’re probably not going to ever get a full score.</p>
<p>She could have self studied and taken practice tests and saved herself $10,000. Three decades take a toll.</p>
<p>Nephew got 1600 M and CR; 790 WR with self study. Any practice helps whether though a course or self-study. And the more practice the better, so taking course after course would be difficult to judge which is better/best. There would be an accumulative effect.</p>
<p>I have to say this isn’t a bad idea for a book–it wouldn’t be much of a book, though, if she didn’t use all the various different prep courses. If she just used Xiggi’s method, and raised her score significantly, there wouldn’t be a book in it–at least, not a book for her.
I wouldn’t expect the book to be all that much of an expose–but it might be interesting, sort of like “Paper Lion.”</p>
<p>It is a usual practice for tutors to take the SAT every year, though</p>