Princeton Review accuracy

tapedDuck
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:13:35 +0000

I personally found PRs strategies useless. Anyone who is getting 2000+ SHOULD NOT use PRs strategies (you probably use them subconciously anyway). Joe Bloggs is useless except for people who have really low scores.

I found their tests to vary considerably… one would be really easy and then another would be extremely difficult. My philosophy in practice tests is to take as many as I can no matter from what publisher, but to only gauge my improvements on the tests published by CB. Now if you don’t have CB tests, you could use the PR tests to gauge your scores, but expect scores to vary by 200 points on either side (as I said before, I find their tests unpredictable), where you could expect CB tests to vary about 100.

Example: PR test - 1900 = Real SAT 1700-2100
CB Test - 1900 = Real SAT 1800-2000