Online course helpful?

mom-2-3-sons
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:31:46 +0000

Dear Xiggi,

Our third son is a rising junior who has never taken a practice SAT or anything similar to it. By this time in our older two sons’ lives, they had both had experience with tests in elementary and middle school through CTY. I also had used the Princeton Review Cracking the SAT with each of them and both scored in the high 700’s with little effort on my part. Although they rarely practiced once in high school they ‘tolerated’ my working with them using TPR book and and the Real SATs.

I’ve purchased self-study materials for Son 3 but he has not cracked the books at all. I was considering TPR online with a live coach vs. the classroom-based course, primarily to get him hooked into the routine of studying. Of course, both are $$$, but I think that having him do this across the summer to be followed by taking actual tests (similar to the Xiggi method).

(I liked the ‘bribery’ that you mentioned… it’s not a normal practice in our household, but time’s awastin’)

From what you (and others) know about the online course (plus live coach) vs classroom, what would you recommend?